Example sentences of "down [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we began to slow down I knocked on the door . |
| 2 | The local stone here is gritstone , much of it brought down I suspect from the quarries on the flanks of Penhill , and on a summer 's evening , when the children are playing on the swings and people are sat talking quietly in the dying sunlight outside the pub while an old dog wanders across the green sniffing his way towards the children , then , when every building is tinted with amber and the gardens are heavy with blooms , it could well be said to be " t'prattiest lal spot i't'Dales " . |
| 3 | ‘ I still do miss her so much , but when I 'm down I think of the way she kept so cheerful after losing Dad , although she missed him terribly … so I try to keep cheerful for her . ’ |
| 4 | After the phone went down I sat in the garden like a very old terracotta gargoyle . |
| 5 | Down she sat on the shovel with her knees up to her chin . |
| 6 | And down they went into the village . |
| 7 | Down they went into the Underground . |
| 8 | Well as I told you at you used to clip them that damn short and we when I was knocking them off , I had to keep dodging down , let the wag and keep knock clips off and chuck the one side and then the wagons came down They went down the hill like that , and then up here there was a hook line to stop them . |