Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came back on the Friday night and erm , well I 've packed my job in at the Transport Department , I better go down to the Recruiting Office and see what else . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd better go down to the stream and hide in the bushes , ’ said Geoffrey . |
| 3 | If you ca n't control your temper you 'd better go down to the canteen and help yourself to a drink . |
| 4 | Lancashire Region to second and colleagues if , if all the other movers and seconders and the C E C speaker would all come down to the front it would help us enormously with time Yorkshire Region to move . |
| 5 | Well anyway Sarah and that lot can sleep downstairs , we 'll all come down during the night |
| 6 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 7 | If we try to relate the stratigraphical column , in all its fantastic detail , to these general theories , we will inevitably soon bog down in a welter of information . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll just go down to the surgery and pick up my case . |
| 9 | Wednesday , I 'd got Michael outside in the pushchair , coat on and I think I 'd just come down from the loo and I saw the car pull up I quickly ran and got me coat on oh I , I 'll come with you she said , so she come shopping with me . |
| 10 | ‘ The rumours that Madhuri will shortly settle down as a housewife and give up acting are pure lies , ’ said Sanjay . |
| 11 | Larry Lonik , author of ‘ The Curious Morel ’ , tells the tale of a man in Williamsburg who knew a special spot : ‘ People would try to follow him , but he 'd just sit down under a tree and wait them out . |
| 12 | I 'll just sit down for a moment . ’ |
| 13 | You could n't just sit down in a street . |
| 14 | Once the planting has been done , cover the soil with a thick mulch of crushed bark , peat or leaf mould , which will gradually break down into the soil and help to improve its texture . |
| 15 | The rain will gradually die down from the west , to leave only a few showers in the south-east by the end of the day . |
| 16 | Vertical movement along a fault may lead to the impoundment of streams if they are flowing towards the uplifted block , whereas if they are flowing towards the down-thrown side they will rapidly cut down through the fault scarp . |
| 17 | We ca n't not ever go down to the beach again , or to the spinney . " |
| 18 | Do n't you ever go down to the hostels or down |
| 19 | No I think that they 'll probably go down to the Mum and |
| 20 | No , I think that there 'll probably go down to the mum and slept there |
| 21 | Cold may also go down onto the chest with lots of secretions , coughing and rattling of mucus . |
| 22 | This effectively risks a breakdown in the Co-operative Principle ( CP ) , though the CP can only really break down by a reader stopping reading . |
| 23 | He would often go down to the Hare and Hounds at the west end of Hury — it 's gone now of course — but he was a grand man and his scarum ways did not alter my affection for him one bit . |
| 24 | A group of youngsters can often come down to the river and go over the top |
| 25 | ‘ And , even if I did n't , for you , signorina , I 'd immediately send down to the cellar to get it . ’ |
| 26 | He could n't even run down to the village to get a new set — they had them in the marina shop at the auto-marine-because his van was temporarily off the road . |
| 27 | credulous old burgher of Windsor in Mr Pickwick 's tale contributed to Master Humphrey 's Clock , pompous and slow-witted , ‘ one of those people who , being plunged into the Thames , would make no vain efforts to set it afire , but would straightway flop down to the bottom with a deal of gravity , and be highly respected in consequence by all good men ’ . |
| 28 | The theoretical difference between the categories may well come down to a question of the burden of proof , though in practice a party seeking to uphold the validity of the restrictive covenant — usually the employer — has to make all the running . |
| 29 | And chaps like me can then go down to the villa , for those two weeks , every year for the next twenty-five years , without paying a penny ! |
| 30 | What happens is o you know , you know that erm twelve people have their feet washed er during that erm service , and erm what we wanted was six confirmation ca er candidates to actually have their feet washed on the sanctuary erm by Father and then to ask those six to then go down into the congregation and wash the feet of one other person each making twelve altogether . |