Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In prisons , in the trenches , in the factory canteen or down at the dole office , it helps to cushion the harshness of life . |
| 2 | Quinn was forced into the back seat and down to the floor , then covered with a blanket . |
| 3 | She clung to the front of her costume , gritting her teeth as he widened the circle of massage , smoothing the cream over her shoulders and down towards the small of her back . |
| 4 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 5 | Jezrael swung herself breathless over a bar of rock and down into the wind-shadow of a huge erratic that faced the sharp-cut sunrise . |
| 6 | He walked on past the house to the steps and down to the shore . |
| 7 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 8 | Jasper looked out of the window and down into the candlelight . |
| 9 | Wing Commander Douglas Farquhar looked out of his cockpit window and down to the left . |
| 10 | Martin was standing at the furthermost edge of the terrace , looking over the gardens and down to the sea . |
| 11 | Well , if I erm said to one of my students something about that was a very good essay you wrote , in fact I 'd like to discuss it a little bit more down at the pub and down at the pub I put my hand on his knee perhaps in making a point about how good his essay was . |
| 12 | ‘ Farquhar ! ’ he gasped , and was borne off his feet and down into the water by the force of the attack . |
| 13 | The hub of all this activity was found in and around the market place and the Guildhall and down towards the Cathedral . |
| 14 | It may progress to the throat , larynx and down onto the chest . |
| 15 | It was a very long journey right across the Atlas mountains and down to the edge of the desert . |
| 16 | There is only one road over the mountains and down to the desert , so it was stupid to assume — as I had done , without really thinking about it — that we should not see them again . |
| 17 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 18 | He made his way from the hilltop and down into the valley , this was an ideal opportunity to search his mother 's house . |
| 19 | The route leads to St Etienne , a distance of 195 kilometres , over the wooded slopes of the Vercors National Park and down into the valley of the Rhône , the majestic river that flows between the foothills of the Alps and the Massif Central . |
| 20 | Snail tracks of peach juice ran from the heel of his hand , over his chest and down to the hollow of his belly . |
| 21 | You tape her mouth then you walk her down to the kitchen and down into the cellar . |
| 22 | I stepped over the coaming and down into the cockpit where I cannoned off the binnacle before snatching open the companionway hatch . |
| 23 | Fräulein was not in her room but down at the party . |
| 24 | If you look up to the university lecturer or down on the cleaner , either way you 're not facing up to the truth about us all . |
| 25 | Just grab the knife up over head and down at the table . |
| 26 | Headache as if bruised all through the bones of the head and down into the root of the tongue with nausea . |
| 27 | People slept in shelters and down in the Underground Stations . |
| 28 | It is easy to put your left toe into the low fuselage-side kick-in step , swing your right foot over the sill and down onto the cockpit floor to settle into the surprisingly upright seat . |
| 29 | They moved along passages and down to the cabin deck . |
| 30 | There was a cry , followed shortly by a pounding of feet past the trench and down through the orchard , then silence , except for a rumble of artillery somewhere in the distance . |