Example sentences of "[vb past] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thick golden bars of sunlight slanted down from the tall narrow windows . |
| 2 | He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray . |
| 3 | Some geezer got down into the tunnels and found his way out . ’ |
| 4 | She got down into the hall . |
| 5 | Ten Trekkies got down on the floor to play this , some still wearing Federation anoraks , which seemed to be cheating somewhat . |
| 6 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 7 | She got down on the floor and ran her arm under the bookcase . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 11 | They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork . |
| 12 | If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about . |
| 13 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 14 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 15 | The giant brick structures were laid during the earliest days of the industrial revolution in Manchester , several decades before London got down to the task of comprehensive sanitation for its citizens . |
| 16 | Despite this , Junius soon got down to the business of casting aspersions against the King 's character . |
| 17 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 18 | before they got down to the autographs . |
| 19 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 20 | As Vimla pirouetted , pulling her sari over her head in a parody of the Dance of the Seven Veils , Chaman Guru put down the cymbals and got down to the serious business of collecting money . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was only when they got down to the particular that problems arose . |
| 23 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 24 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 25 | Then it shook itself , got down off the mushroom , and moved slowly away into the grass . |
| 26 | He got down off the cart to pick a leaf from a roadside bush , and hoisting himself back into his seat resumed his journey , sucking on the leaf as he started to explain . |
| 27 | ‘ Christ , Piper , that 's all we need , the bloody Navy ! ’ burst out Taff as two sailors got down from the jeep and started to unload their gear . |
| 28 | Mr Bean got down from the cab , grinning happily . |
| 29 | There 'll be nobody in at this hour ! ’ he repeated loudly , to the men behind as he got down from the jeep . |
| 30 | In Bawiti , the main village of the oasis , Salah got down from the bus and waved us after him . |