Example sentences of "we be [v-ing] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last , Alida thought , at last we are getting down to business , to the signing of papers , the question of money . |
| 2 | And then Grainne said , ‘ It feels as if we are going down into some terrible prison , ’ and Raynor said , ‘ Yes , it is a prison . |
| 3 | We are going down towards the forest and the Arctic night is awesome . |
| 4 | ‘ You are a right dickhead — ’ I broke it to him gently — ‘ if you think we are driving down to Brixton in that . ’ |
| 5 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're getting down to the real stuff — mosaics , some wall plaster , animal bones and there are signs of a hypocaust . ’ |
| 7 | but erm they 're coming over and they 're coming to our house on the Thursday and on the Saturday morning we 're driving down to which is down near . |
| 8 | ‘ Look , we 're going down on Saturday . |
| 9 | We 're going down to the village . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm meeting her tomorrow off the boat train , ’ Harry replied , ‘ and we 're going down to Calking together . |
| 11 | We 're going down to the beach to look for mussels . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We 're going down to Redland Bay to have dinner on his boat and go for a sail , ’ she invented fluently . |
| 13 | Right we 're going down in a minute , yeah . |
| 14 | He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand . |
| 15 | We were looking down into a little valley like a green cup in the hills . |
| 16 | We were slowing down for lunch and lack of fitness , and after traversing 200 feet of horizontal ridge and tricky gendarmes , we found a terrace in the sun below the final flawless tower and sucked on soggy oranges . |
| 17 | The telephone would ring at one o'clock , just as we were sitting down to lunch . |
| 18 | ‘ Coming sir , ’ they both trilled , and soon we were sitting down at the dining table in a corner of the living-room . |
| 19 | Did n't look very well , we were walking down by the side of the road ! |
| 20 | We were driving down to Zagora . |
| 21 | When we were driving down from the border towards Beni Abbes , we quaked every time we saw police or soldiers . |
| 22 | And then erm one afternoon we went in a dug out canoe erm to look for crocodiles and we did actually see them on the banks of the river as we were going down in our canoe , so that was quite exciting . |
| 23 | ‘ O'course t is none o ’ my business but you wo n't find Maurice if it 's him you want to see ; he went off in his li'l truck when we was sitting down to our dinners . |
| 24 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 25 | ‘ A group of us are going down to 1997 tonight ! ’ |