Example sentences of "we [vb past] down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing more was said as we rode down in the elevator . |
| 2 | We crept down into the hall , through the kitchen and out by a small postern door . |
| 3 | From the roof bar of the Pasha Inn , we gazed down on the harbour . |
| 4 | Just er we lived down at the bottom of the village there . |
| 5 | We tumbled down into the hole like so many Alices and gazed in wonder around us . |
| 6 | I reckon we got down from The Bells , Chell 's Field , to the bottom of , six , seven minutes . |
| 7 | The venue was the carpark of the College of Textiles , but as this was not a particularly photogenic location we moved down to the river , a short distance away . |
| 8 | Well that 's it , it 's when we moved down to the house |
| 9 | He slapped the water buffalo on its massive rump and we headed down towards the beach . |
| 10 | That settled , we wandered down to the river looking for food and natural wonders . |
| 11 | IN comparison to the other places we 'd visited until then , and to those we would subsequently see , Porto was the most touristy — but not unpleasantly so , and we strolled down to the river Douro where all the famous port cellars are . |
| 12 | We dropped down from the Spa to a long stretch of empty beach and the sergeant shouted " " Right , sprint to those rocks ! |
| 13 | After a time we dropped down from the hills on to a flat gravel plain where the track ran straight as a drawn line . |
| 14 | We were not very popular when we came down to the sitting-room . |
| 15 | I remember how cold it was when we came down in the winter . |
| 16 | Charity bets twenty five pounds and we came down in the car from Newmarket she had the she had the post out the light everything , now what 's what 's it going on ? |
| 17 | And we came down in the morning as safe as we would have been anywhere . |
| 18 | I enquired , as we drove down to the shrine . |
| 19 | I think in next weekend possibly er if we drove down on the Sunday evening |
| 20 | After tea we walked down through the remains of the garden . |
| 21 | He puts himself in good light by adding that he gripped me tightly round the shoulders in reassurance , that he gave me brandy , that we talked long after the starlings had ceased their chatter , that we walked down into the street and discussed in jogging stride what guilt or shame or desire could do to the human soul . |
| 22 | Instead , as we walked down to the bar this evening , he had been all smiles and indulgent gallantry , complimenting us on our appearance , an arm lightly circling each of our waists . |
| 23 | He was pin high to the left of the flag and the crowd was stamping and cheering as we walked down to the green . |
| 24 | We walked down to the car-park , through the rhododendrons , round the lake and over the willow-pattern bridge . |
| 25 | As we walked down towards the community centre they all stopped off somewhere to steal some cymbals . |
| 26 | Swaledale opened up below us as we stepped down off the tops . |
| 27 | An ironical cheer went up at this and we settled down for the night . |
| 28 | With my mother we settled down in the back row . |
| 29 | We flew down to the floor again . |
| 30 | It all took just over a bio-day , after which we drifted down from the Valve and touched ground at the spaceport . |