Example sentences of "be down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't been down to the sea yet . |
| 3 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 4 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've just been down to the market . |
| 6 | Reuben Boll must have been down to the Canaries or Tenerife . |
| 7 | That must have been down to the policeman . |
| 8 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 9 | I have personally been down to the suppliers several times and checked , and there is no doubt we will have delivery . |
| 10 | Betty , who clearly had not washed , since she had not been down to the stream and there was no water in the cottage , padded about in her dressing-gown and slippers offering to slice the bread for breakfast . |
| 11 | He 'd been down to the coke-cellar beneath the church , where the stage was stored , and with the assistance of Mr Peniket he 'd tried the curtains for size . |
| 12 | She had been down to the lochside in the early morning with a basket of crusts and potato peelings for the water birds and had left a row of neat black boot prints in the snow . |
| 13 | Adam said , ‘ I have n't been down to the cottage in an age . |
| 14 | It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets . |
| 15 | ‘ We have been down to the bare bones before . |
| 16 | he said in all that , we got two he said the other one cut itself badly this morning on er a piece of glass obvious he said managed to come back to me you know being on a lead all his leg was cut so he sort of been down to the vet and had two stitches |
| 17 | I 've just been down to the grubber . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been down under the sea , you know ! |
| 19 | This original small port and fishing village had been down on the marshes adjoining the Rother , not far from Rye , and given to Fécamp Abbey by Cnut . |
| 20 | I would rather have been down at the villa making figgy hedgehogs for Tony but a promise is a promise . |
| 21 | Maggie immediately thought of the lack of seagulls she 'd noticed when she 'd been down at the sea-front . |
| 22 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 23 | It was just that , well , I heard he 'd been down at the police station this morning . |
| 24 | ‘ She might have been down at the jetty a couple of hours ago . |
| 25 | then she said they 've been down at the this time of year |
| 26 | My friends who lived nearby were all envious for I was the only one who had ever been down into the depths of the mysterious cellar . |
| 27 | In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged . |
| 28 | The stout landlord , who had been down in the cellar fetching a fresh keg of ale , lowered it to the floor . |
| 29 | All that has long since changed and , while talent can still win the day , both fields are down to the hard graft of making money . |
| 30 | All the increases that he has just quoted — in the number of pupils staying on to the fifth and sixth years and in the number of social workers — are down to the fact that all the regional authorities in Scotland are controlled by the Labour party and they see as their spending priorities the need to create educational opportunities for young people and to provide home helps for old people . |