Example sentences of "[noun sg] sloping [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A roadside gate opposite admits to a field sloping down to the river ( no path ; no right of way so seek permission to visit ) where , in a wild and impressive setting , the Dee , here flowing in a deep ravine , leaps in a waterfall into a deep pool beneath a high canopy of trees . |
| 2 | By 1737 he had begun to acquire over 200 acres of what was regarded as desolate heath-land sloping down to the River Mole near Cobham in Surrey , and he turned it into an ornamental park , Painshill Park . |
| 3 | " When you get into the field you can see the wood sloping down to the river . |
| 4 | River valleys and railway lines are usually fairly level , with the ground sloping down to the rivers . |
| 5 | Although Peru in 1990 probably bore little resemblance to the place described circa 1948 in our tomes , we were immediately obsessed with an area sloping down to the Amazon Basin to the east of the Andes . |
| 6 | It was not in any way grand : simply a solid nineteenth-century country residence with a small courtyard and a pleasant garden sloping down to the river ; the sort of place , Celia reckoned , which had been built for a man of some substance : a prosperous merchant or , more likely , a gentleman farmer , the land having been incorporated into the nearby estate . |
| 7 | A wooden gate at the side of the house led to a neatly tended garden at the back , the lawn sloping down to the river , with a path of paving stones laid along the middle , ending on the edge of the waters at what looked like a small landing-stage , perhaps once used to moor a small boat or punt , but apparently ( as Lewis shone his torch across it ) not in recent use . |