Example sentences of "and we [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simple Minds are playing Sheffield Poly and we go down to meet them . |
| 2 | Simple Minds are playing Sheffield Poly and we go down to meet them . |
| 3 | Halfway outbound in the hold the scheduled traffic for which we 'd been waiting landed , and we swooped down , just catching the ILS . |
| 4 | Christmas Day 1988 has been delightful if unremarkable and we snuggle down after pigging out on room service and a floor picnic of the remaining Marks and Spencer goodies . |
| 5 | They bomb the airfields and we shoot down their bombers , lots of young men die but we expect to win . |
| 6 | The goods are sent on by large waggons , and meet us at Loch Crinan ; while the ‘ Cygnet ’ or the ‘ Plover ’ puffs along right merrily , and we sit down to have a quiet look at the bonnie bits of scenery that are everywhere meeting us . |
| 7 | And we drove down to another place , I think this was , it was just called the pub . |
| 8 | And we came down in the morning as safe as we would have been anywhere . |
| 9 | Charity bets twenty five pounds and we came down in the car from Newmarket she had the she had the post out the light everything , now what 's what 's it going on ? |
| 10 | Some of the boys followed and we went down into the basement and I turned the phonograph on as loud as it would play . |
| 11 | He was in my heat and we went down to the start to fix our blocks into the Tartan . |
| 12 | We left the older ones in the family to look after Low Birk Hatt , do the milking and other chores , and we went down with the horses . |
| 13 | It was the air raid shelter then and we went down there and we was in the shelter and er we 'd been down there ten minutes to quarter of an hour oh there was such a bang outside we thought this is it , you know , all the bits and stones and rubbish and er that was stuck on the ceiling was disturbed you know and it down it on top of us , you know , all bits and plaster and water th it was er shi close . |
| 14 | He and the policeman took me to a lift and we went down many floors . |
| 15 | Mark gave me one of Sophie 's doorstops — a sleeping fox , and we went down to visit a friend in the Borders with Ethel for support . |
| 16 | And we went down , liked it and that was it . |
| 17 | It was over , and we eased down . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And we walked down clubbing right and left , and we cleared the streets and those that fell to the floor were carried off by those who had hidden behind when we went past . |
| 20 | And he said good , and here 's ours , and we passed them along the table , and we wrote down two point six , I said excuse me , could I just have that back , there 's a slight typing error , excuse me , sorry twenty-two per cent . |
| 21 | We 've , into the village , we lived out in the countryside till I was eight , and we come down into the I should say town should n't I , we come down into the town when I was eight and I was there till I was twenty two , and I came up here , when I got married . |
| 22 | I followed him , gratefully , and we wandered down some backstairs and out on to another floor just as Ray Gelato and his Giants of Jive were starting up . |
| 23 | We dash abroad at least twice a year ( we dashed over to California last November ) and we dash down South to my daughter 's in Hampshire umpteen times a year and we dash seemingly everywhere in the wake of our grandchildren when on school holidays or visiting but I ( if not so much Bett ) also spend a heck of a lot of time just watching ( I prefer to call it scientifically observing ) the world around me and contemplating . |
| 24 | Jenny selected one and we sat down . |
| 25 | Mrs Knelle soon appeared in a dressing gown , and we sat down to a soothing breakfast of toast . |
| 26 | Mizz Wilkes , eighty-something , said grace and we sat down , eight to a table , to tuck into some old-fashioned Southern cooking : fried chicken , gumbo , sweet potato , mashed potato , beef stew , cornbread , macaroni and every sort of vegetable , followed by banana pudding , all washed down with iced tea . |
| 27 | Then a French Polynesian with a rosary around his neck and scarred knuckles drew out his cards and we sat down to play . |
| 28 | Ward introduced me and we sat down . |
| 29 | I caught a bit of it on and we sat down and went to sleep . |
| 30 | He slapped the water buffalo on its massive rump and we headed down towards the beach . |