Example sentences of "be down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets . |
| 2 | I 've just been down to the grubber . |
| 3 | That must have been down to the policeman . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | ‘ I have n't been down to the sea yet . |
| 6 | Adam said , ‘ I have n't been down to the cottage in an age . |
| 7 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 8 | Betty , who clearly had not washed , since she had not been down to the stream and there was no water in the cottage , padded about in her dressing-gown and slippers offering to slice the bread for breakfast . |
| 9 | He 'd been down to the coke-cellar beneath the church , where the stage was stored , and with the assistance of Mr Peniket he 'd tried the curtains for size . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just been down to the market . |
| 11 | She had been down to the lochside in the early morning with a basket of crusts and potato peelings for the water birds and had left a row of neat black boot prints in the snow . |
| 12 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |
| 13 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been down under the sea , you know ! |
| 15 | ‘ She might have been down at the jetty a couple of hours ago . |
| 16 | Maggie immediately thought of the lack of seagulls she 'd noticed when she 'd been down at the sea-front . |
| 17 | I would rather have been down at the villa making figgy hedgehogs for Tony but a promise is a promise . |
| 18 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 19 | In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged . |
| 20 | The stout landlord , who had been down in the cellar fetching a fresh keg of ale , lowered it to the floor . |
| 21 | All the increases that he has just quoted — in the number of pupils staying on to the fifth and sixth years and in the number of social workers — are down to the fact that all the regional authorities in Scotland are controlled by the Labour party and they see as their spending priorities the need to create educational opportunities for young people and to provide home helps for old people . |
| 22 | In all honesty , you ca n't afford to try and play your way out of trouble when you are down at the bottom . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Today , for example , they are down by the river , observing the wildlife , the vegetation , the reflections in the water . ’ |
| 27 | It 's all in , I mean the days are down from the top to the bottom . |
| 28 | But now we 're down to the bottom of the barrel . |
| 29 | You 're down for the floor . |
| 30 | I was just going to make a quick comment if I may on Oxfam , because I noticed that they 're down for the street collections and for the flag day , now next year 's their fiftieth anniversary , so I think it 's quite appropriate next year , but I do , my own view is , that we will get , we ought to get one comprehensive list of all these organisations , for both the street collections and the flag days , with an indication in the column of whether it 's flag day they 've gone for or a street collection , so that we can identify that sort of situation . |