Example sentences of "had been down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 2 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |
| 3 | She had been down to the lochside in the early morning with a basket of crusts and potato peelings for the water birds and had left a row of neat black boot prints in the snow . |
| 4 | This original small port and fishing village had been down on the marshes adjoining the Rother , not far from Rye , and given to Fécamp Abbey by Cnut . |
| 5 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 6 | The stout landlord , who had been down in the cellar fetching a fresh keg of ale , lowered it to the floor . |