Example sentences of "we be down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children talk about you all the time : when we are down in the shelter , which we still are , often , they keep saying they wish Uncle Walter was here , to make it entertaining . |
| 2 | But now we 're down to the bottom of the barrel . |
| 3 | Ten minutes later we were down on the beach at Taroona , near Hobart ( and the mouth of the Derwent River ) launching the boat from the beach in traditional manner by reversing the trailer into the surf . |
| 4 | We were down in the bar , up the club on Saturday night your Aunt Jean and Raymond and I and this fella beside us was drunk and he put his arm round this woman 's neck , you know the thing , what about ? |
| 5 | And when we were down in the kitchen the partition between the butt and the bairn as they called it was going like that inside of the house in the gale . |
| 6 | ‘ We were down in the cellar when a policeman ran and told us to get out . |