Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 2 | Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead . |
| 3 | ‘ Does this mean when I go upstairs to bed , I ought to reset my watch when I come down in the morning because it 's got out of step with the clocks downstairs ? ’ |
| 4 | When I go down on the table-cloths , the water runs over my hand . |
| 5 | ‘ If you get through all right , I 'll take you with me when I go down to the village after evening milking . |
| 6 | Yes I know I 'll take it when I go down to the post office and I keep forgetting , do n't like bothering with it on Thursday because they 've always got a shop full and I go |
| 7 | Well , it was absolute chaos when I went down to the Press reception before the Women of the Year lunch . |
| 8 | But when I went down to the shop |
| 9 | I knew I had done something when I went down in the tackle . ’ |
| 10 | Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to . |
| 11 | There were countless small libraries that ran on into the 1930s and even later , right down to the small cornershop lending libraries of the kind George Orwell worked in ( it is strange how , when you get down to the basic phenomena of literacy in England , he keeps cropping up ) . |
| 12 | ‘ When you get down to the end of a tournament , the people that hit the great shots win and she hit some great shots . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah , well I mean , that 's a , that 's a difficult one , inside information , when you get down below the top ranks there are lots of people in the mid mi medium-ranks who would know about insider dealing , and I 'm sure use it . |
| 14 | What was your first job then when you went down to the pit ? |
| 15 | When you sit down in the examination room with the usual small table in front of you , the situation should be familiar and comfortable from the long practice you have carried out . |
| 16 | jus just ignore pretend he 's not here , carry on when you come down to the referrals bit |
| 17 | When you going down to the hospital this afternoon or tonight ? |
| 18 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 19 | She went over to it , her mouth dry , her pulses racing , and when she looked down at the cherubic child with bright golden hair she had to grip the arms for support . |
| 20 | When she looked down into the channel with Gazzer and saw Simon , water swilling round his waist , she could hardly believe that she was responsible . |
| 21 | When she came down to the drawing room , Dada was looking particularly small , too . |
| 22 | Nurse Jones was a busy woman and he valued the minutes he had with her over a cup of tea when she came down from the bedroom . |
| 23 | When she went down to the kitchen eight mugs on the draining-board said that someone had washed up ; she was the last . |
| 24 | When she went down to the sitting-room to pour tea for her mother , the latter was in one of her most waspish moods . |
| 25 | Once or twice when she crept down to the turn in the stairs to see if it was safe to go and get something to eat , she was scared back by the murmur of unfamiliar voices , and saw three or four bicycles parked in the hall , leaning together with their pedals tangled in each others ' spokes , forming an intricate barrier to outside . |
| 26 | Marie Wilkes had to make that decision when she broke down on the M50 in the Summer of 1988 . |
| 27 | And similarly , most of the CTC and especially the , were utterly and outspokenly delighted when she stood down from the committee on moving to PLACE . |
| 28 | She trailed a hand along an imaginary banister , sweeping the other behind where the skirts of a ball-gown would have trailed and was so tangibly created that when she sat down on the sofa Delia Sutherland moved to make room for the folds of that gown . |
| 29 | When she sat down at the table her mother said , ‘ Well , you can help yourself , I 've got my hands full here . ’ |
| 30 | We were not very popular when we came down to the sitting-room . |