Example sentences of "as we [vb past] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | He was pin high to the left of the flag and the crowd was stamping and cheering as we walked down to the green . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | As we walked down towards the community centre they all stopped off somewhere to steal some cymbals . |
4 | The play was necessarily a matinee , and as we went down past the Albert Hall a siren did go . |
5 | All through my teens it had to be a very rainy Sunday indeed that did not find us perched on the Cow and Calf a crop of murderous rocks resembling neither cows , calves nor any other animal , ' or out at Bolton Abbey , negotiating the stepping-stones across the wide but shallow Wharfe ; or eating our sandwiches on Haworth Moor as we looked down on the Brontes ' parsonage and re-enacted the highlights from Wuthering Heights in our romantic young heads . |
6 | I enquired , as we drove down to the shrine . |
7 | Swaledale opened up below us as we stepped down off the tops . |
8 | Nothing more was said as we rode down in the elevator . |
9 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
10 | Pipes and cigarettes glowed in the darkness as we settled down for the six-hour passage . |
11 | As we swept down to the seam in the old iron lift we all grabbed each other 's hands in simultaneous panic . |
12 | We had Liverpool superstar Frank Holden for company as we travelled down to the Twenty Foot river near March . |