Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well anyway , it reaches night and the three of them go down into the attic . |
| 2 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 3 | Then some of them sat down on the sand and began to drink . |
| 4 | They were beings like Miach , a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest . |
| 5 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 6 | Considered as an institutional bridge , Schloss Hartheim was part of my winding down from the experience of the KZ . |
| 7 | Amaranth was wearing what appeared to be a blue-black overcoat with square shoulders , the skirts of which came down to the knee . |
| 8 | The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down . |
| 9 | A more erudite musician — or courteous companion — you wo n't meet ; and I shall treasure for aye the memory of his sitting down at the grand piano in the front room of his Edinburgh town-house to demonstrate how two operations to his 95-year-old hands had not impaired his keyboard ability : what he then produced was some of the most sheerly beautiful bach playing I have ever heard . |
| 10 | For those of us staring down into the yawning chasm of the generation gap it really is n't so bad , you know . |
| 11 | At the weekend there was a bunch of us playing down in the alley-way near Julie 's house . |