Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [art] river " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know , I was just sitting on the grass one day , down by the river . |
| 2 | I did n't know The Rolling Stones had started playing just down by the river . ’ |
| 3 | The sky was soon dark and the sound of heavy bombs exploding died away , to be replaced by shells passing over the orchard from the British guns down by the river Orne . |
| 4 | The party was held at his flat which was a loft in a warehouse down by the river in Shad Thames on a wharf right next to Tower Bridge I 'd never seen anywhere like it . |
| 5 | Now when I was down by the river at half seven … ’ |
| 6 | He was found down by the river this morning and he 'd been dead since midnight or before . ’ |
| 7 | It 's laughable , afraid of a storm but brave enough to wait in the dark down by the river and bash your friend over the head . |
| 8 | Fancy ten minutes down by the river , dog ? ’ |
| 9 | Could this be your ring ? it was found down by the river with an ear-pick and a stiletto . |
| 10 | Another door , Harry had said , down by the river 's edge : and in fact , when I looked I could see it , a once-painted slab of wood set in brickwork , its bottom edge barely six inches above the water . |
| 11 | At first we thought we had no neighbours down by the river : nearly all the picture windows were blank . |
| 12 | Down by the river the boys fish with rods cut straight from the surrounding forest and grill their catches on an open fire . |
| 13 | After Muir of Ord JTR got off the train at Conon Station as did I , and walked down by the river to sketch from the Telford bridge of 1809 now replaced by a modern version built in 1969 . |
| 14 | As to what he 'd been doing , there had been a couple of incidents down by the river , which on top of the morning 's ordeal , had about finished him . |
| 15 | They were a couple of travelling hedgers and ditchers who were currently working at Bakers Farm down by the river . |
| 16 | As Billy came back down by the river and up the hill towards the cottage , he knew the danger in the kitchen had a name at last . |
| 17 | How often she and Frank had spent the day down by the river , fishing for the cunning trout , or lazing in the damp grass , talking . |
| 18 | She left the dining room that November morning and took the dogs for a walk down by the river . |
| 19 | One morning the alarm calls of grey langur monkeys alerted Bill Arjan Singh that Harriet was somewhere down by the river that forms the boundary with the National Park . |
| 20 | alone , down by the river by the Brine Baths |
| 21 | I put forward the idea to Mme Bluot that , rather than sit either side of a table , reminding Didier of school and his failure to keep up , he and I would do better to talk down by the river , in the park , even in the Café du Coin . |
| 22 | Andy and I went down by the river and the loch , clambering up the rocks upstream then back down , watching fish jump lazily out on the calm loch , or strike at the insects speckling those flat waters , jaws snapping underneath ; dispatching , swallowing , leaving ripples . |
| 23 | Down by the river , at nine in the evening . ’ |
| 24 | Down by the river Thames was a district called Rotherhithe , one of the dirtiest and roughest places in London . |
| 25 | They put his body in Holy Trinity Church , down by the river Avon . |
| 26 | He invites Howard to lunch one day ( sandwiches , in the garden of a pub down by the river , at a battered green table with a hole in the middle for an umbrella ) . |
| 27 | Today , for example , they are down by the river , observing the wildlife , the vegetation , the reflections in the water . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If Gebrec was upset or worried about something and just wanted to be alone to think things over , ’ said Jack , ‘ he might have gone up to the belvedere , or down by the river where we went yesterday to do our painting . ’ |
| 29 | At the same time a determined police search for Terry Place began in the area down by the river . |
| 30 | Roxie said suddenly , ‘ There 's a tunnel down by the river . |