Example sentences of "[adv prt] south " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find this hard to believe ; it sees little good weather and the trigger-happy Japanese and American tourists are down south . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've got two alternatives , ’ the officer bellowed at them , 'either you stay up here and get gangrene — or you go down south and have your legs sliced off . ’ |
| 3 | One is secret and compartmented , and another is sort of boyish and boastful , and it would be in character for him to say , I wo n't be here tomorrow , I will be down south , and then for him to say , Yes , it was a quick trip and I flew all night and I came back and I have n't slept for 48 hours , always complaining about how busy he was and how terribly overworked . |
| 4 | ‘ Have n't seen YOU either , Bill … been down south , looking for work . ’ |
| 5 | I can feel them getting hungrier and hungrier , then we all sit down to eat , or ‘ greeze ’ as they say down South . |
| 6 | He could have ditched or landed down south somewhere . |
| 7 | It has been called down south for duty owing to the weight restrictions on the Henley branch . |
| 8 | It is this experience which first tempted Sohl to seek out the Geordie and eventually bring him down south . |
| 9 | That 's the one that 's going down south . |
| 10 | Way down South de forest dies |
| 11 | We are rather living apart now , some down South |
| 12 | But three days later when he managed to get away without anyone suspecting his real purpose in skimming down south , and Jezrael lay weakly fretting until he got back , Ember could only whisper , ‘ The Company must have got him . |
| 13 | Anywhere in England south of Durham was still Down South to them . |
| 14 | We lost touch after I moved down South . |
| 15 | is different from the cost per mile down South on tickets as well . |
| 16 | With Waitrose down south and Sainsburys round the corner they have to . |
| 17 | I 'll tell you the weather down south is just as bad . |
| 18 | They went up to Scotland for your christening , 'eighty-three , it must have been no 'eighty-four , and when they came down south again , they came to my office and the wills were drawn up . ’ |
| 19 | We dash abroad at least twice a year ( we dashed over to California last November ) and we dash down South to my daughter 's in Hampshire umpteen times a year and we dash seemingly everywhere in the wake of our grandchildren when on school holidays or visiting but I ( if not so much Bett ) also spend a heck of a lot of time just watching ( I prefer to call it scientifically observing ) the world around me and contemplating . |
| 20 | Behind us the ghostly apparition of Sister Twister is disappearing down south like a lonely wispy drunk . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been invited to join them down south . ’ |
| 22 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 23 | We understand that was de-mob happy for quite some time and erm I know he 's been disappointed recently with the Tories losing control of the local Council down down in the happy glades down South but the pink gin and pink knickers approach of Councillor is becoming a joke . |
| 24 | Er I went back down south again . |
| 25 | I think they moved down south … |
| 26 | Soon after , he and Sonia moved down south . ’ |
| 27 | The England coach , who is also assistant to Ian McGeechan on the Lions tour to New Zealand this summer , and who has been in Scotland since last Thursday , admitted yesterday that the Scots ' performance against Wales ‘ had been very impressive and must have surprised quite a few people , especially down south ’ . |
| 28 | All the English families went down south . |
| 29 | down South they would call it . |
| 30 | Be walking a way down South . |