Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the river " in BNC.
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| 1 | So left him and walked down to the river . |
| 2 | Thought of him tonight as I walked down to the river . |
| 3 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 4 | It is a rambling Tudor house run by John and Margaret Parker , whose breakfast room and drawing room look out over a wonderful walled garden , beyond which fields of grazing cows stretch down to the river . |
| 5 | Fancy a run down to the river Orne to collect some water ? ’ |
| 6 | In a brief lull we moved quickly down to the river and followed it back down the valley . |
| 7 | Instead he would walk down to the river , take the path to the bridge and pick up his Police Review at Braddan 's on his way home . |
| 8 | Behind the house , the ground sloped down to the river and the waving tasselled heads of the rushes gleamed with a light that was between silver and gold . |
| 9 | And I told you about the garden going down to the river , did n't I ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We 'd better get her into bed , ’ Otley urged , ‘ before she goes sleepwalking down to the river and falls in . ’ |
| 11 | Corridors , ante-rooms , kitchen , a flue still intact , a corner of the verandah and traces of the garden path down to the river . |
| 12 | ‘ Yeah ! ’ came a chorus of voices and suddenly Jeremiah Scrape was manhandled down to the river and thrown in , notebook and all . |
| 13 | With luck , with extreme luck , the curtain would n't go all the way down to the river 's bed . |
| 14 | Sam said , frowning , ‘ You ca n't have dived out under the curtain , it goes right down to the river bed . ’ |
| 15 | Like the sand under Argyle Street where the new subway ran down to the river , the fortunes of the future were already shifting . |
| 16 | The great area of land south of Lord Burlington Lane , down to the river bank , was meadowland with osier beds at the water front . |
| 17 | ‘ Come down to the river and do some fishing with me , ’ she suggested after his third afternoon of idle silence . |
| 18 | Fusil said : ‘ Their feet will get wet in the mud and the paths are dangerous because it is slippery and there is a steep drop down to the river . ’ |
| 19 | That settled , we wandered down to the river looking for food and natural wonders . |
| 20 | In the village , mothers told their children this story to warn them to be careful when they went down to the river . |
| 21 | There is still the same straggle of dwellings fronting the street down to the river , all mellowed with antiquity ; there is still the same atmosphere of undisturbed tranquillity . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In former times George 's Lane , starting close by the church , toll-house and former inn and running down to the river , was the village 's main link with the outside world and the river Lynher the main artery for trade and industry . |
| 24 | It is said to be an overcoat warmer in the valley , but shelter from the north is no compensation for the deep-freeze effect as the frosts drain down to the river . |
| 25 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
| 26 | It passed under the canal and ran parallel to the Haversham Bank and down to the river . |
| 27 | I spent a lot of time discovering and browsing through the bookshops , and then reading on the lawns which led down to the river Cam from the backs of the colleges . |
| 28 | Somehow , though , we did feel better as we filed out at the end of the service and made our way down to the river . |
| 29 | Wynds — narrow lanes — lead down to the river from both sides of the street , from Yarm is built on a loop of the river . |
| 30 | But even here the story does not end , for after fifteen or twenty years , the urge to breed and migrate once again comes upon them and down to the river mouths they proceed , slithering over wet meadows by night until they reach the greater river , lying up by day in damp holes , enough water remaining in their gills to enable them to breath . |