Example sentences of "[prep] [be] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | he said in all that , we got two he said the other one cut itself badly this morning on er a piece of glass obvious he said managed to come back to me you know being on a lead all his leg was cut so he sort of been down to the vet and had two stitches |
| 2 | Shortwood attracts thousands of visitors and the idea behind the revival of the horse powered cider mill , is to demonstrate how life used to be down on the farm . |
| 3 | His inclination was to be down at the yard . |
| 4 | ‘ I shall want to be down at the track early tomorrow morning . |
| 5 | ‘ All members of the team are to be down in the lower block , with their kit , half an hour before lock-up … |
| 6 | He seemed more likely to blow a kiss than to throw a punch ; to be at a dinner-table than to be down in the dives ; to be rubbing shoulders than to be shoving or sticking it to the comfortable ( I almost said to the bourgeoisie . ) |
| 7 | A little while ago children were expected to be down in the mines and underneath textile machinery , so they were n't actually treated as children , they were erm wager earners at a very low age , as soon as they could be walking they were doing a job , so I feel that we 're all children in fact , there is no great division between being a child and being an adult , and we in fact ca n't always cope with what 's happening and the shocks infect . |