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Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] down [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	near Kettering , Don went to er Northampton and then finally I went to Rushden and er I 'd been there about a year and all of a sudden there was a call in for Shorteners at so I went down on the bike and er what er the one over me who , who was elderly , well was n't over me but he was er he was on my job but the senior man on it he come in , the boss had sent him in to have a look cos the er Shorteners were complaining , and er then they rang up for one of us , he said well I 'm not leaving till I 've solved this problem so I had to go .
2	So I walked down to the sea and before long , I was at the ship and was swimming round it .
3	The Ptarmigan was closed , and so I walked down beneath the ski-tow towards the road .
4	So I sat down in the warm , and ate the man 's breakfast .
5	But ha I remember I was on my test and I pulled round er it was very , very busy and there were two rows of cars and I pulled up and I thought right there 's a gap down there and I want to go straight on and all these others were turning le turning right so I squeezed down through the gap and then I thought right I 'm gon na be here a little while shall I put it in neutral , blow no I wo n't .
6	So she pressed down on the button more firmly .
7	So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh .
8	So they escaped down into the village .
9	So he came down to the vestibule , where the three doors were , and under the sills of the two great doors light shone , warm and enticing , and the third was behind a musty leather curtain .
10	Somehow she scrambled down into the hollow and landed on her knees by Fand .
11	Finally he lay down in the snow and determined to die , for his stamina had failed him and he had not found the Dwarves ; and he did not want to go back to the life of killing he had led .
12	One of Aunt Tossie 's luxuries was an early breakfast in bed — later she came down to the dining room where she ate a second .
13	Also we went down to the H.Q. at Pages Park where we saw some men putting up photographs of the line in the past .
14	Periodically I went down into the warmth below , to write up my notes and check them over against the ship 's design plans , which Nils had produced for me before going off with Iain to talk to the Navy Yard people .
15	Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job .
16	Now he looked down at the table top , then sideways at his colleagues and back at Cameron .
17	Fernando had said and she had said , and really it boiled down to the misuse of the three most precious words in the universal language — I love you !
18	well I went down to the park had to a act , went on again !
19	Moodily she looked down at the ground .
20	Well they got down in the grass you see .
21	Self-consciously they ducked down among the rest .
22	It would oscillate through the earth and back , until eventually it settled down at the center .
23	And then I sat down on the bed and opened it .
24	Then I sat down by the letter table .
25	Blooming great fine statue of p and then you went down to the road where the Wolferton .
26	Alexandra would find her by the fire in the drawing-room in the afternoons , the Pekinese guarding her against invisible dangers , then she came down in the mornings and needed letters written , wools held .
27	Then she went down to the cancer shop and asked if she could help them .
28	Then she flopped down in the chair opposite .
29	Then she settled down at the dining-room table with her book purchases , which she had picked at random from the shelves of Tollemarche 's only book store and from the racks of one of the cigar stores .
30	Then she sat down on the bed , took off her hat and eased her patent leather pumps off her rapidly swelling feet .