Example sentences of "have [to-vb] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Danny has to go down on the floor , put his hands on hips and go , evening all ! |
| 2 | I hate having to sit down in the toilet all the time . |
| 3 | I 'll have to go down to the roundabout and come back up . |
| 4 | I think it 'll have to go down to the post office , I 've write to Diane now |
| 5 | They would be perhaps regarded as thick as two short planks , er they would not be happy , they would be struggling to do work that was not honestly within their capacities , that being the case , they would almost certainly have to go down from the University . |
| 6 | Six months ago he was the first to say publicly , ‘ The Government will have to sit down round the table with the terrorists . ’ |
| 7 | And do n't get so drunk that you ca n't stand up and have to sit down in the middle or , worse still , can not speak at all . |
| 8 | I remember my father used to say that even those experiences that take us out of ourselves — the ‘ mountain-top ’ experiences — can never keep us from having to come down to the valley of ordinary existence . |
| 9 | Because often I would be alone with her up there : not like other children , having to come down to the drawing-room at five o'clock , brought by nurse , on their best behaviour . |
| 10 | ‘ Then I will have to walk down to the village and find a mechanic at the garage . ’ |
| 11 | It helps if it is small , and it is also a great advantage if it can easily reach the next tree without having to climb down to the ground and then climb up again . |
| 12 | Will the criminal have to climb down from the roof ( in which case he ca n't take a lot with him ) , or can he go downstairs and let himself out of the house ? |
| 13 | Her thoughts were still so full of Mo : she thought that if she tried to say anything , she would have to lie down on the bed and howl . |
| 14 | She very much doubted Madeleine would be prepared to give up the good time she was having to settle down in the country on Harry 's salary . |
| 15 | However , it looks like IXI may have to get down into the water to try and tickle this baby out of the flow , as DEC has its own problems to iron out . |
| 16 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 17 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
| 18 | Nell Anderson said it , knowing that it was hopeless , that Delaney would — had to go down to the engine room . |
| 19 | Sarah was kept busy replenishing dishes , and every time she had to go down to the kitchen she was afraid of missing the Reverend Morey , but he appeared last of all . |
| 20 | ‘ The Welsh name for the bridge over there , ’ said Beuno , gesturing , ‘ means ‘ the place where the milk was spilt ’ because one year the nuns ' cow went dry and they had to go down to the village to beg for some , and they got this far and then one of them dropped it . ’ |
| 21 | Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone . |
| 22 | The parade I had to lead down from the station to the beat was much longer on nights . |
| 23 | Gabriel was not permitted to show himself , and had to duck down inside the cart , underneath the costumes . |
| 24 | So majestic were Forest that one had to look down to the programme to make sure it was n't Robertson and Woodcock and McGovern and Gemmill combining in sweet harmony to carve open Leeds . |
| 25 | So we just had to pop down to the Castle in Chiddingstone for a pint or two . |
| 26 | They got him in the boat and they he had to lie down in the bottom of the boat and they and they covered him with a tarpaulin . |
| 27 | Now what was required then was that although the job was in a rush , the management had to telephone down to the Admiralty in Bath to get the appropriate sanction you know , to , to accept the cylinder with the er bigger gauge bore . |
| 28 | Several times they had to step down from the train and walk along the track to the nearest station ; on this particular evening the passengers were all wanting to get home and any delay was not welcome . |
| 29 | So you 're doing exactly what we were telling you to do a few weeks ago , that you had to er take money out of reserves or you had to cut down on the level of services if you were to avoid putting that thirty four pounds on the council tax bills this year . |
| 30 | On occasion there is n't sufficient water available from the stream or the rainwater tub , and I have to go down to the reservoir , which I call the Mississippi , to rinse the washing . |