Example sentences of "we [vb past] down the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 We sailed down the reaches of the Thames and , standing in the bows , I saw the river through the eyes of Marlow in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , as a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea " .
2 We tracked down the drivers in the tea-houses of the souk .
3 Then we started down the rapids .
4 We went down the tubes , the blue one is erm just as good as the green one , the blue one longer .
5 Well I have to admit , with our group , the first ten minutes or was a little bit disorganised because I felt we , I came in , we set down the objects , I felt we did that well , and we were clear of the timescale from the very beginning .
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