Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am pleased we are to meet at 5p.m. or thereabouts at Waterloo on Wednesday , 8th February when I 'm down for the Co-ordinators , to take a close look at the programme for our Scottish National Conference on 10–12 March at the Scottish Churches House , Dunblane , in which you , Ingrid Keith and Mauricio Laborde , Chile , are to share . |
| 2 | I 'll pop in and see you sometime when I 'm down at the RAF |
| 3 | I think I would have to give the biscuit to him because one day I was down at the bankruptcy court and I discovered that he had 130 petitions on the file and I do n't think mine reached 100 ! |
| 4 | Then I was down at the Chough last night and everyone was on about it . |
| 5 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 6 | I was down at the library today . |
| 7 | Forty-five minutes after agreeing to write this I was down on the bridge at Abingdon watching the sun set across the Thames . |
| 8 | When I came back here I was down on the ground , looking for gold , I could n't find it . |
| 9 | Ten minutes later I was down on the private beach . |
| 10 | I was down in the workshops and I 've run a great splinter into my thumb . ’ |
| 11 | Susan : ‘ Well , Vera , I was down in the Bank this morning paying my ESB and you know what happened — an old gentleman came in with flowers for a member of the staff — it was lovely to see ’ . |
| 12 | Now when I was down by the river at half seven … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I had some time off while I was working in Los Angeles and I was down by the hotel pool . |
| 14 | In all honesty , you ca n't afford to try and play your way out of trouble when you are down at the bottom . |
| 15 | IF you are down in the South West sector of the region over the next weekend the Swanage Railway is having a Steam Gala weekend . |
| 16 | HOWEVER , if you are down in the South East corner , the Kent and East Sussex Railway invites you to return to the ‘ Good Old Days ’ on Saturday and Sunday at Tenterden Station from 10am to 5pm . |
| 17 | You 're down for the floor . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ It was while you were down in the cellar , changing over the barrels , ’ she told him . |
| 20 | Yeah even though she 's down on the bottom she 's bound to of come second |
| 21 | My mother 's amazing — she 's so reserved , and very English , yet the minute the curtain goes up , she 's down at the front . |
| 22 | Louisa arrived in time to hear this and to see , a moment later , the tears start to Frere 's eyes , then she was down beside the unconscious woman , holding her head . |
| 23 | After her fifth or sixth toke she was down to the end of the joint and a couple of the dried seeds exploded like miniature fireworks , making her jump and then starting her off giggling . |
| 24 | She was down at the scene of the picket . |
| 25 | She realized she was down from the morph-plus , and that her senses were sharper than they had ever been before . |
| 26 | Minutes later , she was down in the yard , unlocking the feed shed in the morning darkness . |
| 27 | But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it . |
| 28 | She was down in the dirt , rolling away from the sharp-toed kicks . |
| 29 | It 's nice to have new owners who do n't think we are down among the dead men . ’ |
| 30 | The children talk about you all the time : when we are down in the shelter , which we still are , often , they keep saying they wish Uncle Walter was here , to make it entertaining . |