Example sentences of "we [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Nothing more was said as we rode down in the elevator .
2 We crept down into the hall , through the kitchen and out by a small postern door .
3 From the roof bar of the Pasha Inn , we gazed down on the harbour .
4 Just er we lived down at the bottom of the village there .
5 If we push down on the canvas by putting a heavy object on it we create a dent .
6 We tumbled down into the hole like so many Alices and gazed in wonder around us .
7 Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas .
8 When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money .
9 At Beni Suef we got down into a dusty twilight .
10 I reckon we got down from The Bells , Chell 's Field , to the bottom of , six , seven minutes .
11 That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ?
12 Over supper we sit down in the low evening sun and watch the hills change from one blue to another , to mauve , to grey , to black .
13 The venue was the carpark of the College of Textiles , but as this was not a particularly photogenic location we moved down to the river , a short distance away .
14 Well that 's it , it 's when we moved down to the house
15 He slapped the water buffalo on its massive rump and we headed down towards the beach .
16 That settled , we wandered down to the river looking for food and natural wonders .
17 IN comparison to the other places we 'd visited until then , and to those we would subsequently see , Porto was the most touristy — but not unpleasantly so , and we strolled down to the river Douro where all the famous port cellars are .
18 We walk down to the shore in the warm drizzling rain and wait at the quayside .
19 From the history of man in general we focus down to the story of a single individual , Abraham , and his descendants .
20 Instead of retracing our steps , we dropped down into An Lairig , the glen between the ridge and the deceitful Beinn a' Chlachair , mainly because Mr OS map assured us with a neat dotted line that there was a stalkers , path there .
21 Then , on the second day , we dropped down into the lowest part of the crater to reach the hot springs .
22 After a time we dropped down from the hills on to a flat gravel plain where the track ran straight as a drawn line .
23 We dropped down from the Spa to a long stretch of empty beach and the sergeant shouted " " Right , sprint to those rocks !
24 Now , in the twilight of the 20th century , is the time to re-establish our commitment to the earth and embark on a new decade of environmentalism as we count down toward the year 2000 .
25 The doctors said that he would have bled to death at a lower altitude and I 'm sure this is so , because as we let down over the Channel his bleeding started again .
26 We cut down to the riverbank before we reached them and walked along the water 's edge out of sight of the buildings above .
27 We were not very popular when we came down to the sitting-room .
28 We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees .
29 I remember how cold it was when we came down in the winter .
30 And we came down in the morning as safe as we would have been anywhere .
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