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Example sentences of "we [vb past] down [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time .
4	From the roof bar of the Pasha Inn , we gazed down on the harbour .
5	Just er we lived down at the bottom of the village there .
6	All too soon the islands were a memory , as we steamed down to England , with calls at Liverpool , the Isle of Man and Welsh ports .
7	We tumbled down into the hole like so many Alices and gazed in wonder around us .
8	After the usual social exchanges we got down to business explaining the range of counselling that we could give and the various reasons why we thought it was important to ‘ talk about it ’ .
9	Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas .
10	We got down to it immediately .
11	We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat .
12	‘ Is n't it about time we got down to some work ?
13	We got down to number tend and they were all one liners .
14	‘ But when we got down to signing the papers I saw there was £198 charged for the fittings and £223 VAT on the original sum I had been quoted .
15	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 .
16	At Beni Suef we got down into a dusty twilight .
17	I reckon we got down from The Bells , Chell 's Field , to the bottom of , six , seven minutes .
18	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 .
19	Well that 's it , it 's when we moved down to the house
20	He slapped the water buffalo on its massive rump and we headed down towards the beach .
21	That settled , we wandered down to the river looking for food and natural wonders .
22	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 .
23	After about five hours we dropped down on Athens in a soft rain .
24	Then , on the second day , we dropped down into the lowest part of the crater to reach the hot springs .
25	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 .
26	As we dropped down towards Gunnerside , rabbits exploded in all directions and Bill had so many to choose from he lay down confused , unable to make his mind up , looking at us pitifully as though we could make up his mind for him .
27	After a time we dropped down from the hills on to a flat gravel plain where the track ran straight as a drawn line .
28	We dropped down from the Spa to a long stretch of empty beach and the sergeant shouted " " Right , sprint to those rocks !
29	When we came down to breakfast the other guests were so absorbed in some news in the morning papers that they forgot the usual ragging of newlyweds .
30	Having survived ten days in the Caribbean unbeaten and relatively unscathed , in St Kitts we came down to earth with a large thump and were soundly thrashed by the island 's powerful side , which contained several hard hitting batsmen .