Example sentences of "[noun sg] and down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quinn was forced into the back seat and down to the floor , then covered with a blanket . |
| 2 | Concerned at the way neither she nor her friends wore ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes ( too many frills , too much lace , all up to the neck and down to the ankles , they said ) Laura asked them to come up with suggestions for the sort of outfits they would like to wear . |
| 3 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 4 | Jezrael swung herself breathless over a bar of rock and down into the wind-shadow of a huge erratic that faced the sharp-cut sunrise . |
| 5 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 6 | It was a well-attended service , families coming both from the village and down from the hills . |
| 7 | They looked out of the window and down on the merrymakers . |
| 8 | Jasper looked out of the window and down into the candlelight . |
| 9 | Wing Commander Douglas Farquhar looked out of his cockpit window and down to the left . |
| 10 | Well , if I erm said to one of my students something about that was a very good essay you wrote , in fact I 'd like to discuss it a little bit more down at the pub and down at the pub I put my hand on his knee perhaps in making a point about how good his essay was . |
| 11 | Relaxed and complacent , we headed our way out of the pub and down to a dip — then straight up a ferocious bank turning right at a junction in the road , signposted to Dale End . |
| 12 | It may progress to the throat , larynx and down onto the chest . |
| 13 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 14 | He made his way from the hilltop and down into the valley , this was an ideal opportunity to search his mother 's house . |
| 15 | The route leads to St Etienne , a distance of 195 kilometres , over the wooded slopes of the Vercors National Park and down into the valley of the Rhône , the majestic river that flows between the foothills of the Alps and the Massif Central . |
| 16 | Snail tracks of peach juice ran from the heel of his hand , over his chest and down to the hollow of his belly . |
| 17 | You tape her mouth then you walk her down to the kitchen and down into the cellar . |
| 18 | I stepped over the coaming and down into the cockpit where I cannoned off the binnacle before snatching open the companionway hatch . |
| 19 | Keep left along the wall and down to a gully with Caperby below . |
| 20 | Just grab the knife up over head and down at the table . |
| 21 | Headache as if bruised all through the bones of the head and down into the root of the tongue with nausea . |
| 22 | It is easy to put your left toe into the low fuselage-side kick-in step , swing your right foot over the sill and down onto the cockpit floor to settle into the surprisingly upright seat . |
| 23 | They glanced curiously at the line of official vehicles which drove along the boulevard running along the lower ridges of the city , through a gateway and down in a series of long , lazy curves , dropping over two hundred metres to the valley floor . |
| 24 | There was a cry , followed shortly by a pounding of feet past the trench and down through the orchard , then silence , except for a rumble of artillery somewhere in the distance . |
| 25 | The dead eye was shuttered under a black patch held by a cord that went under one ear then reappeared , coming out of the hairline and down across the forehead . |
| 26 | Without discounting the possibility that sources may yet be found in the mountains of China , present indications are that jade was already reaching China in Neolithic times by the route followed during the Bronze Age and down to the time of Sir Aurel Stein 's travels in inner Asia at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 27 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 28 | We handed in our papers , and I do not think a more relieved set of students or an Invigilator ever rushed for the lift and down to the shelter . |
| 29 | As soon as the chicks are mobile , she leads them away from the nest and down to the shore . |
| 30 | She ran along the side of the house , round the back of a stone-stilted granary and down behind the dovecot , and then darted across the last few yards to the wall . |