Example sentences of "have be down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Maggie immediately thought of the lack of seagulls she 'd noticed when she 'd been down at the sea-front . |
2 | He 'd been down to the coke-cellar beneath the church , where the stage was stored , and with the assistance of Mr Peniket he 'd tried the curtains for size . |
3 | It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets . |
4 | That must have been down to the policeman . |
5 | ‘ She might have been down at the jetty a couple of hours ago . |
6 | I would rather have been down at the villa making figgy hedgehogs for Tony but a promise is a promise . |
7 | She had been down to the lochside in the early morning with a basket of crusts and potato peelings for the water birds and had left a row of neat black boot prints in the snow . |
8 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |
9 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
10 | The stout landlord , who had been down in the cellar fetching a fresh keg of ale , lowered it to the floor . |
11 | ‘ I 've been down under the sea , you know ! |
12 | In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged . |