Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well anyway Sarah and that lot can sleep downstairs , we 'll all come down during the night |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll just go down to the surgery and pick up my case . |
| 3 | No I think that they 'll probably go down to the Mum and |
| 4 | No , I think that there 'll probably go down to the mum and slept there |
| 5 | Her whole life was acting — she 'll never settle down in the country . |
| 6 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ And , even if I did n't , for you , signorina , I 'd immediately send down to the cellar to get it . ’ |
| 9 | Well she always used to say , why you do n't say anything , but she always used to say to , she 'd never come down to the house , I mean I do n't think she 's been to my house , house five times |
| 10 | He 'd occasionally pop down to the dungeon just to say , ‘ Aujourd'hui , c'est Vendredi , Mars quatorze , mille neuf cent quatre vingt et neuf ans . ’ |
| 11 | Reporters are proverbially heavy drinkers , and it took a few bottles of bonhomie with Johnny Smart before Charles could actually get down to the business for which he had come . |
| 12 | Cold may also go down onto the chest with lots of secretions , coughing and rattling of mucus . |
| 13 | The 1984 British Open may well go down as the Open that was lost by two players as much as it was won by Severiano Ballesteros . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Would never go down to the cellars like everyone else when the air-raid siren went . |
| 18 | The chairman , Chris Patten , will shortly sit down with the new head of the Downing Street policy unit , Sarah Hogg , to write the first draft of Mr Major 's manifesto . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Not quite a donkey but Wallaces goal to win the league at Sheff Utd will probably go down as the jammiest ever in my book . |
| 23 | A group of youngsters can often come down to the river and go over the top |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | And he can safely set down to the Spirit 's guidance anything which brings Jesus into sharper focus . |