Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] down [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eighteen twenties and thirties saw fashion moving from the Empire line , which was , had a very small bodice and a skirt that flowed down straight to the ground to a lower waisted dress with big sleeves and a shorter skirt , and the impression of a little girl , a little sort of bouncy girl who was all skippy and everything , which reflected really the feeling of optimism at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | She stared unseeing out of the big plate-glass window that looked down on to the hotel 's rather undistinguished forecourt . |
| 3 | They went through a field where sheep grazed , and then through bracken that sloped down steeply to the River Dyn . |
| 4 | While the sky above darkened to a deep purple , the Marines below looked about , made nervous by the steadily increasing pace and volume of drumming that floated down eerily from the surrounding countryside . |
| 5 | She did not weep silently like her mother in a web of hands and hair , but noisily , like a child , with great sobs and huge tears that splashed down on to the brown wool of her skirt to which little bits of hay still clung from the afternoon . |