Example sentences of "[conj] down [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Below 700m many of the soils are man-made — the soils on the terraces having been brought up from the river mouths or down from the bases of the escarpments .
2 It must be continuous around the walls , so on a sloping site it will step up and down along the joints in the brickwork .
3 Of course , Therese would look ridiculous in the part — nothing they could do about that , a boy 's costume was a boy 's costume — but the voice , that electrifying voice rippling up and down through the registers without effort .
4 Nails spun the mini through the traffic , heading out of town , flicking up and down through the gears as if he did it every day .
5 ‘ For I am weary ’ , he wrote , ‘ with rowing up and down in the seas of questions , which the interests of Christendom have commenced , and in many propositions of which I am not certain that I am not deceived . ’
6 " Later that evening , as El-ahrairah was urging his rabbits to growl more fiercely and run up and down in the marshes of Kelfazin , Prince Rainbow came over the river .
7 And down in the highlands of the south there is the extremely rare mountain zebra , with bold but more vertically arranged flank stripes .
8 By using salvaged slates , it was possible to revise the roof of the garage to a ‘ cat-slide ’ form projecting out and down from the eaves of the main rear roof-slope at a slightly shallower pitch than this surface ( Plate 10 ) .
9 For there really is something a little odd surrealist even in the idea of a folding-leaf Dining ( Bird ) Table , where the flaps are made to beat up and down like the wings of a bird .
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