Example sentences of "be down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If any other part of the machine broke the farmer would be down at the dealer causing a song and dance . |
| 2 | IF THE truth be known , Ian Woosnam would probably just as soon be down at the Golden Lion in Oswestry tomorrow night , having a pint or two with the lads . |
| 3 | If I 'm not here , I 'll probably be down at the boatyard . |
| 4 | His inclination was to be down at the yard . |
| 5 | ‘ I shall want to be down at the track early tomorrow morning . |
| 6 | so I wonder if she 's going down the , well she might be down for the service now |
| 7 | I drove it both times in similar test conditions , so any change would be down to the car . |
| 8 | One day soon I will rip its beak off and glue it onto the end of my own fine aquiline conk , and , secure in my new disguise , I 'll be down to the Inland Revenue Enforcement ( B ) in Barrington Road and scrabbling frantically at my tax inspector 's trousers ( I may be wrong , but I picture them as that specially rich shade of brown polyester-and-worsted that only Dunn & Co can achieve ) before you can say , ‘ Well , what 's got into you , dearie ? ’ |
| 9 | This can only be down to the ‘ flocculating ’ of suspended particles , which an efficient filter system can then deal with . |
| 10 | Of course , some of the LSE II 's bass response must be down to the rosewood back and sides ; the chances are the mahogany version would be toppier-sounding , but both would make equally top-notch recording guitars . |
| 11 | Any rethink by the NRA would be down to the persistence of the members , he said . |
| 12 | Otherwise , it will be down to the usual international brinkmanship in Rio itself , and that 's no way to run a planet . |
| 13 | It would probably carry on like this for at least another hour , and then the first of the departures would begin ; the ones with an early start in the morning , the ones with teenaged babysitters , the ones who rarely went out anyway … an hour after that they 'd be down to the hard core , and an hour after that it would just be a case of guiding out those last drunks who were too far-gone to find the door . |
| 14 | In his opening speech , the hon. Member for Birkenhead said that we should ’ bring forward ’ the arrangements which will prevail after 1993 , but it will not be down to the local adjudication officer to assess people to decide the appropriate care and to assess the reasonable rate . |
| 15 | It must be down to the record companies . |
| 16 | Shortwood attracts thousands of visitors and the idea behind the revival of the horse powered cider mill , is to demonstrate how life used to be down on the farm . |
| 17 | He must find Martin — he would be down near the chicken run — he must speak to someone , touch someone 's hand , hear someone 's voice . |
| 18 | If they 're thigh-high the stockmarket , too , will be up ; long , and share prices will also be down near the floor . |
| 19 | ‘ All members of the team are to be down in the lower block , with their kit , half an hour before lock-up … |
| 20 | The Marshal and I will be down in the porter 's lodge . ’ |
| 21 | He seemed more likely to blow a kiss than to throw a punch ; to be at a dinner-table than to be down in the dives ; to be rubbing shoulders than to be shoving or sticking it to the comfortable ( I almost said to the bourgeoisie . ) |
| 22 | ‘ Now that I 've left the army , I 'll soon be down in the fields with you again , ’ said Troy lightly . |
| 23 | They 'll find themselves chartered to carry pig-iron and cheap tin trays , just like everybody else ; and by that time they 'll be down in the South Seas loading rainbows and moonbeams . |
| 24 | They must be all done or they would n't be down in the first place would they ? |
| 25 | A little while ago children were expected to be down in the mines and underneath textile machinery , so they were n't actually treated as children , they were erm wager earners at a very low age , as soon as they could be walking they were doing a job , so I feel that we 're all children in fact , there is no great division between being a child and being an adult , and we in fact ca n't always cope with what 's happening and the shocks infect . |