Example sentences of "[pron] were down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's there , still curled up and still secured by the tape , but he must have wriggled his way through to here while you were down in the cellar ; he 's knocked over a table with the phone on it and he 's just turning the phone the right way up as you enter the lounge and see him . |
| 2 | ‘ It was while you were down in the cellar , changing over the barrels , ’ she told him . |
| 3 | We were down at the main road . |
| 4 | Ten minutes later we were down on the beach at Taroona , near Hobart ( and the mouth of the Derwent River ) launching the boat from the beach in traditional manner by reversing the trailer into the surf . |
| 5 | ‘ We were down in the cellar when a policeman ran and told us to get out . |
| 6 | And when we were down in the kitchen the partition between the butt and the bairn as they called it was going like that inside of the house in the gale . |
| 7 | At first , we thought everyone else was booming while we were down in the dumps , but from talking to other businessmen you realise that everyone is suffering the same . ’ |
| 8 | We were down in the bar , up the club on Saturday night your Aunt Jean and Raymond and I and this fella beside us was drunk and he put his arm round this woman 's neck , you know the thing , what about ? |
| 9 | Next thing they were down with the measuring up and we 'd just got a four thousand pound rate bill ! |
| 10 | They were down on the floor , and one side of her face was scorched by Gordon 's mother 's horrible gas-fire , in front of which there was a bowl of tepid water . |
| 11 | Dear , they were down at the Paradise the other night … looks serious . ’ |
| 12 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 13 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |
| 14 | With only two weeks to go they were down to the cosmetic touches . |
| 15 | By the time he got his foot to the brake pedal they were down among the mud and the car slid on for several yards before coming to a halt . |
| 16 | Besides , they were down by the river now , and she wanted to see the bridge … |
| 17 | No doubt they were down in the cellar sheltering from the bombardment . |
| 18 | They were down in the order book at four and eight pence . |
| 19 | Take them I mean along the main road , he had taken the the the trees at the back of them and they had no shelter and they were down in the main road . |
| 20 | Ah well they were down in the garden we said |