Example sentences of "we [vb past] down [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we glissaded down the final snows to the hut , the summit of Mt Blanc was burnished by the setting sun and the Flammes de Pierre were flickering , true to their name . |
| 2 | We fled down a long avenue towards the river . |
| 3 | She was watching the road as we roared down a slight incline at all of seventy . |
| 4 | Our trucks had open sides and Marius , Vermulen and I clung to each other , faces buried in our hoods , as we churned down the slushy autoroutes , the speed of the trucks sending icy , sawing winds through us at seventy kilometres per hour . |
| 5 | Sick of talk , we cycled down the green tunnel |
| 6 | Slowly we drove down a broad unpaved street lined with matchbox-houses . |
| 7 | Then , as we drove down the steep little hill we could see the sea glinting , for the coast at Frejus was about 12 miles distant . |
| 8 | We trotted down the long flights of stairs and I followed her out through the front door . |
| 9 | Repacking the camera gear , we decided to abandon it to the elements in orange survival bags , and bracing ourselves , we retreated down the steep and slippery slope . |
| 10 | We climbed down the notched-pole ladder and picked our way through the muddy ground towards the back path , passing the neatly stacked woodpile and the growing heap of freshly gathered pine-needles . |
| 11 | We walked down an unsteady plank into the Sudan : a desert plain , dotted with scrub , stretching away to steep hills which rose from the sand like islands from a sea . |
| 12 | I can remember him saying , as we walked down the second fairway , ‘ Willie , if I can win these people ( the gallery ? over from Jack [ Nicklaus ] so that they want me to win , I 'll win for them . ’ |
| 13 | The struggle for survival is all that he knows : ‘ When we were in charge during the riots , ’ he says ‘ we pulled down the national flag outside the supermarket . |
| 14 | In the echo of the receding explosions and the sulphurous cordite of the rockfall , I said to Steve we might live longer if we abseiled down the rocky left side of the icefield , well away from the fall line . |
| 15 | We swayed down the long baggage car , which was half empty of freight and very noisy , and George , having told me to remove and lay aside my waistcoat in case I got oil on it , unlocked the door at the far end . |
| 16 | Can you just check that we took down the following . |
| 17 | We went down a hundred feet , perhaps a bit more . |
| 18 | And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago . |
| 19 | And I think the way we did it we marked down the three shops we wanted to do and make sure you do those three shops . |
| 20 | look at this traffic coming in now I think the way we did it , we marked down the three shops we wanted to do |
| 21 | I cursed but did as he requested and afterwards we slipped down the darkened stairway out of the main door where Benjamin had ordered a sleepy-eyed groom to bring round the horses . |
| 22 | But as we travelled down a lovely wooded valley towards the north coast at Alta , the sun appeared below the clouds near midnight and we stopped to take our first pictures of the midnight sun . |
| 23 | As we sat down a little way away from the rest of the group , I saw a small girl waving her hamster 's cage at the sky . |