Example sentences of "[vb past] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Thick golden bars of sunlight slanted down from the tall narrow windows .
2 He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray .
3 At Beni Suef we got down into a dusty twilight .
4 Some geezer got down into the tunnels and found his way out . ’
5 She got down into the hall .
6 The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses .
7 Ten Trekkies got down on the floor to play this , some still wearing Federation anoraks , which seemed to be cheating somewhat .
8 I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot .
9 She got down on the floor and ran her arm under the bookcase .
10 And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were .
11 Doug Wimbish started playing harmonics on that funny Guild bass ( the rubber-stringed Ashbory model — Ed ) and I got down to a really quiet moment , and suddenly Phil just surprised the hell out of us with this keyboard patch !
12 I suppose the reason I got down to an effort to be objective is that I did n't like the interpretations of my other things — so here I am with an array of alligator pears — about ten of them — calla lilies — four or six — leaves — summer green ones — ranging through yellow to the dark sombre blackish purplish red — eight or ten — horrid yellow sunflowers — two new red cannas — some white birches with yellow leaves — only two that I have no name for and I do n't know where they come from .
13 When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking .
14 But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ .
15 They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork .
16 If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about .
17 Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas .
18 Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered .
19 The giant brick structures were laid during the earliest days of the industrial revolution in Manchester , several decades before London got down to the task of comprehensive sanitation for its citizens .
20 Despite this , Junius soon got down to the business of casting aspersions against the King 's character .
21 Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL .
22 before they got down to the autographs .
23 He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played .
24 As Vimla pirouetted , pulling her sari over her head in a parody of the Dance of the Seven Veils , Chaman Guru put down the cymbals and got down to the serious business of collecting money .
25 Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead .
26 It was only when they got down to the particular that problems arose .
27 And erm , after that they got down to the serious business !
28 When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money .
29 Then it shook itself , got down off the mushroom , and moved slowly away into the grass .
30 He got down off the cart to pick a leaf from a roadside bush , and hoisting himself back into his seat resumed his journey , sucking on the leaf as he started to explain .
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