Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we are saying there are other emergencies and I get down to the word loneliness now is there any reason why senior citizens should n't have the facility whereby they can make telephone calls if those , they so desire , to members of the family who in many instances they have n't seen for long periods of time ? |
| 2 | A love song on the crackly Holiday Inn radio which the maid always switches on as her final flourish after she 's done the room ( Hugo and I go down to the pool and swim and use the sauna while we wait for her to finish ) or a pop song on the telly as Hugo and I eat our continental breakfast ( orange juice , coffee , a croissant and a Danish each ) , too languid even to stretch out for the remote control and switch it off — will make tears come to my eyes : move me with the desire to say , You do love me , do n't you ! |
| 3 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
| 4 | We flew above the skeletal radio mast and I stared down at the row of huge houses . |
| 5 | And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were . |
| 6 | I walk out to the bus , I get on the bus at the end of Care Street , I walk right along Care Street , right up Dawsons Street , brisk walk and then I 'm walking around the garage , I do n't do that much walking now , the bloody car , but I take a walk at lunchtime and I walk down to the bar , walking , if you walk , that would be total couple of miles a day |
| 7 | For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there . |
| 8 | And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees . |
| 9 | there and I went down to the at and he said we got your lintel in mate , do you want to take it ? |
| 10 | So and I went down in the pool this morning |
| 11 | Andy and I went down by the river and the loch , clambering up the rocks upstream then back down , watching fish jump lazily out on the calm loch , or strike at the insects speckling those flat waters , jaws snapping underneath ; dispatching , swallowing , leaving ripples . |
| 12 | Billy ( Nottingham ) and I came down in the afternoon to help . |
| 13 | ‘ I tell you what , if it 's a nice day why do n't your mother and I come down to the tournament on Sunday ? |
| 14 | It disregards the net put there to discourage the heron , and I come down in the morning to find a dog-shaped depression in the mesh and all the fish having a nervous breakdown . |
| 15 | I went into a toilet and there was none and I sat down on the toilet , looked up , they were all above the door , five of them ! |
| 16 | We had a very impromptu meal which was brought out from somewhere near Bahrain because our landing area was in a small offshore sand strip where the Nos 55 and 84 Squadron aircraft ( also a Valentia from No 70 Squadron , which was our support aircraft ) were all based overnight and I went to sleep in this hot and humid place , The humidity factor at Bahrain was very high indeed , in the 90s , but I went to sleep quite comfortably on a groundsheet having dug a little hole for my not very considerable hips , weighing very little above 9 stone , and I settled down for the night . |
| 17 | As Taff and I ducked down into the trench I upset the remains of my meal over the floor . |
| 18 | And you come down through the alley way and you could not keep your feet on the floor ! |
| 19 | Then coming on to the end of Street next door was a milliners , now that nobody knows what they are today Miss the name was and then coming across Street to the other side was which was a drapers , and next coming down was Smiths the butcher 's shop , and next to that was the grocers , following on down there was the ironmonger , then there was the newspaper , and you come down to the White Hart erm then we come to the White Hart |
| 20 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 21 | and you dive down to the post box and pushes it in . |
| 22 | And when there 's four of you playing i and you get down to the last two or three card . |
| 23 | ‘ The wall was broken at the edge of the road , and you fell down into the valley . |
| 24 | He gave her a quick nod of approval and she went down to the end of the shop and began filling in the certificates , taking her information from the records Mr Miller had already made . |
| 25 | It was like a drug , like the swell of the ocean , and she went down under the waves . |
| 26 | When I went the receptionist was just leaving and she walked down into the town with me . |
| 27 | She knew the Spanish liking for these little snacks and she stepped down into the street , a little surprised to find herself the focus of several pairs of eyes . |
| 28 | Ruth heard herself scream as Adam lost his grip on her , and she fell down into the water . |
| 29 | Instead slow , silent tears ran down her face , and she lay down on the bed , trying to forget , not to remember . |
| 30 | And she took the skin and she ran down to the shore and she put on the skin , dived back into the sea . |