Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them would not go on , but three were brave enough to go down into the valley . |
| 2 | I wanted only to go down to the summer-house and watch the leaves falling until night fell with them . |
| 3 | I put forward the idea to Mme Bluot that , rather than sit either side of a table , reminding Didier of school and his failure to keep up , he and I would do better to talk down by the river , in the park , even in the Café du Coin . |
| 4 | ‘ In that case I must ask you both to come down to the station with me . |
| 5 | The tape measure had now to go down into the hollow as well as across the circle , and it was not long enough to do this . |
| 6 | Agnes stood directly in front of her mother now as she said , ‘ Would it do you any harm either to go down into the shop or to go over to the house and change the linen ? |
| 7 | Sharpe stepped a pace forward to look down at the map . |