Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and she , he , she goes down to the abortion centre right after and he dies ! |
| 2 | Maybe she slows down in the cold . |
| 3 | When I stick my head round the door and tell Rachel I have to go out again , she sits down on the bed without a word . |
| 4 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
| 5 | It 'll be after 2am before she bunks down in The Hitman coach on the way back to London . |
| 6 | if she parks down in the door and he comes up |
| 7 | She dresses for the most part in a pink frilly fairy costume in which she walks down to the beach , paints , dances and collects snails . |
| 8 | Well she does and the hardest part , I think there is when she comes down in the morning and for five years he was there |
| 9 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 10 | It goes down to the throat with redness and swelling , enlarged tonsils , hot head , congested face , heavy limbs , a gradual onset . |
| 11 | Local legend states that when it hears the church clock strike twelve it goes down to the River Avon to drink . |
| 12 | And get the letter all brailled and everything so it goes down to the |
| 13 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 14 | You can see there 's been a wee bit of damage to that ligament just where it goes down over the top of that bone . |
| 15 | The philosophy that if it goes down in the US it must be going up in Europe has meant that Smurfit is looking to Europe as its main engine for growth in the months to come , when it must decide how to spend the $1bn cash raised from the recent financial restructuring with Morgan Stanley . |
| 16 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 17 | Howard ca n't help laughing to himself as he goes down in the lift . |
| 18 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |
| 19 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 20 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 21 | And so quickly he makes his way to the gate of the city as we 've said , and he gets this man he sits down with the te with the te , with the ten elders who would be witnesses and the kinsman arrives . |
| 22 | So this is how it 's going to be , thinks Howard , as he rides down in the lift again . |
| 23 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 24 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 25 | He looks down into the gardens hidden everywhere behind the patched and crumbling walls . |
| 26 | He lives down near the bottom of Wind Street , got a shop he has , a well-to-do sort of man , better off than me at any rate . ’ |
| 27 | He glances down at the final layer of glasses . |
| 28 | He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat . |
| 29 | Nor does it have much of a view , since it looks down into the stable . |
| 30 | Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ? |