Example sentences of "down [prep] [noun prp] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come down from Oxford a few months ago obsessed with the idea of social service . |
| 2 | It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through |
| 3 | Only wallpaper for the whitewashed parlour seemed , at least in Cottle 's opinion , to be lacking , and he accordingly sent an upholsterer down to Clevedon a few days later to paste up some ‘ sprightly paper ’ . |
| 4 | It was the first news I had heard that Robin Summers , shot down over Brest a few weeks before , was alive . |
| 5 | ‘ I believe the Breadalbane men were up in arms against their commanders down at Glasgow a few years back . |