Example sentences of "[noun] down [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the north of the campus are the Residences , beautifully situated with views down to the mouth of the river and the distance Donegal hills . |
| 2 | To the north of the campus are the Residences , beautifully situated with views down to the mouth of the river and the distant Donegal hills . |
| 3 | Under the stress of the All Blacks ' tackling Dewi Morris ' passing let the Lions down at the base of the scrum and his problems were transmitted to the other midfield backs . |
| 4 | He did however attempt in his Sermons Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief ( 1843 ) and The Grammar of Assent ( 1870 ) an analysis of the nature of religious belief which shows some affinity with Coleridge , and includes Newman 's own original idea of the ‘ illative sense ’ by which we find it possible to proceed through probabilities to certitude ; and in his celebrated Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine ( 1878 ) struggled with the problem of change and continuity in the expression of Christian faith down through the centuries in a fashion which has helped many others to grasp something of the questions , if not in most cases to accept his answers . |
| 5 | Attempts throughout the day to coax an escaped owl down from the roof of a house have so far failed . |
| 6 | The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows . |
| 7 | All that was necessary to bring it on in more or less its full force was the sight of the Bible , its cover or open page , or its mere name , or the sight of a church , or the sound of any bell ringing solemnly , from Big Ben down to the bell of the Sunday muffin men . |
| 8 | In all of this giving away of herself ( which can be taken in two modern senses ) , this revelation of a coarser character beneath the courtly exterior she tries to sustain , Margery follows the movement of the opening stanzas of the text down from the character of the courtly dame to the level of the townswoman , a stereotyped bourgeois Vxor , " Wife " : the label that seems to be given her by the letter " " V " alongside some of her speeches in the manuscript copy of Dame Sirith . |
| 9 | He buried his face against her throat , his mouth tormenting her with its lazy progress down towards the swell of her breasts , and she arched up , silently begging for his caress . |
| 10 | I sent Peggy down to the village for yeast and old Meg was at the baker 's , first time in months , and she says her master 's back . ’ |
| 11 | She had long , black hair down to the waist of her tight satin bodice . |
| 12 | Her hair down from the secret of her ears , |
| 13 | A new scar ran from the line of his jaw down into the collar of his open tunic , and Jehan guessed that Artai had broken the law which forbade the ill-treatment of captives , and he frowned . |
| 14 | At last Couville put his goblet down on the floor beside him . |
| 15 | Three months into the financial year — for which the directors were forecasting 25 per cent growth in turnover , to £4 million — Tozer admits sales are ‘ a bit down on the plans to date ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Honestly , Reg … ’ began Bob , trying to get one foot down on the floor behind him . |
| 17 | The heir to the throne , a shy , sensitive boy , was often held upside down over the lavatory by schoolmates who delighted in pulling the chain . |
| 18 | The mob rose and attacked Gaunt 's palace of the Savoy , hanging his coat of arms upside down as the sign of a traitor . |
| 19 | The inevitable happened and I was off , dangling upside down on the end of the rope seconds later , 30 feet below , parallel to my climbing companions . |
| 20 | To get plant out of the pot , turn it upside down with the stem between your fingers and give the pot a gentle knock . |
| 21 | ‘ The poltergeist has tried to smother my boyfriend and we once found the baby 's cot turned upside down with the baby on the floor . |
| 22 | For earwigs bend on molesting your chrysanthemums , wood-wool or hay stuffed into a small flowerpot hung upside down at the top of a cane offers a similarly unsafe and temporary lodging . |
| 23 | You 've got to put the basin upside down in the middle of the tin or the ducklings 'll fall in and drown . ’ |
| 24 | And there , on the third step , upside down in the corner by the wall , was Bunty 's other sandal — dainty lacy white straps with the arched instep and the two-inch heel hanging half off . |
| 25 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |
| 26 | It was over six weeks since she had come to work here , and six weeks to the day since his kiss and their painfully honest talk down by the river beneath the moonlight . |
| 27 | It is sometimes very strange to see an AIB Engineering Inspector and an RAF doctor with their heads down inside the wreckage of a crashed aircraft in the AIB hangar at Farnborough , arguing , discussing or merely agreeing that this or that component is not strong enough to sustain survivable crash forces on a row of seats or that a part of the galley constitutes a lethal hazard against which passengers could suffer injury in a crash . |
| 28 | The water was icy cold but she washed her arms up to the oxters , and then her face and her neck down to the top of the bodice ; after which she took off the rest of her underwear and got into a calico nightdress . |
| 29 | Vass cast a quick glance down at the file of drawings , then raised his eyes to hers again , their expression brittle . |
| 30 | He glanced at her as she set the tray down on the table between them , then frowned , seeing how Karr was staring at her . |