Example sentences of "they [vb past] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 2 | They gazed down at the innocent football being kicked back and forth against the wall outside , the thwack of the ball booming in the street amongst the traffic noise . |
| 3 | They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork . |
| 4 | before they got down to the autographs . |
| 5 | It was only when they got down to the particular that problems arose . |
| 6 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 7 | Well they got down in the grass you see . |
| 8 | Just after 0800hrs they swooped down on the closely parked Curtiss P–36s and P–40s . |
| 9 | The rain softened the surface and showed the imprint of their short stay as they swooped down to the mirage of what had been their habitat . |
| 10 | They plunged down into the forest with a great clattering of hooves and jingling of harness , and the acrid smell of horse-dung lingered about the village for days afterwards . |
| 11 | Then the removal men came out of the house for the last time , wiping their brows on their once-white aprons , and then they helped down from the van a little old lady . |
| 12 | then they moved down to the house opposite the green in front of the church which I think the now live in next to the , Janet and Peter , that house and then they moved up to a bungalow . |
| 13 | They moved down on the Tuesday of tournament week , two days before the first rounds were due to be played . |
| 14 | Then from the back of the platform , where they had been seated , there stepped forward some twenty or perhaps thirty men , to whom were given silver plates containing little cubes of bread , and with these they moved down among the congregation … |
| 15 | They drew down to the back of the hummock which remained an ivy-grown tump until they were within a few paces and could see rough-hewn timber planks behind it . |
| 16 | They peered down on the world like two eyes , one half-closed . |
| 17 | The horse pounded surefooted along the tunnels , leaping sudden slides of rubble and adroitly sidestepping huge stones as they thundered down from the straining roof . |
| 18 | They drove down to the harbour and watched the cargo boat for the Aran Islands loading up , the crew of black-haired ruddy men chatting easily to them , amused — delighted — by their northern accents and their contrasting styles . |
| 19 | Together they climbed into her Toyota and , with Aldridge keeping the map open on his knees , they drove down toward the lake shore . |
| 20 | They came down into the hall and heard a key in the lock . |
| 21 | They came down on the Pennines to Alston before joining the A66 and heading East for Scotch Corner . |
| 22 | They came down to the verge of the lake , and drank and drank . |
| 23 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 24 | George MacDonald saw the people from Strathnaver arriving at the sea : ‘ When they came down from the Strath to the sea-shore they suffered very much from want of houses . |
| 25 | Thousands of imported sheep had left their devastating mark and the latest ‘ crop ’ , the deer , finished off any saplings the sheep might have missed when they came down from the high tops in the winter . |
| 26 | He was waiting for them with his barge by the first footbridge over the canal as they came down from the moor . |
| 27 | At Teheran airport they came down from the plane with Koreans in their hands . |
| 28 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 29 | They strolled down to the Temple , in the evening sunshine . |
| 30 | After service they strolled down to the waterside , where they talked about stockings and the weaving of plaid ; ‘ What particular parts of commerce are chiefly exercised by the merchants of Aberdeen , I have not inquired , ’ wrote Johnson . |