Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] down to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Back at Templecombe , now over his shock , Mandeville paced around like an angry cat , hurling abuse at Santerre , telling Lady Beatrice to stop screaming and order servants to go down to the village and bring wise women to attend to Southgate . |
| 32 | Just then two big wild cats came down to the shore from the mountains . |
| 33 | One wonders whether he observed this on his visits to Hailing as the houses of the villagers spread down to the river near the Palace , an ideal place for the collecting of rushes . |
| 34 | Situated on Beruwela Beach , the Neptune is a comfortable hotel set in a palm grove with lawns leading down to the sea . |
| 35 | Ramblers were often trained as weeping standards , with their stems tied to a vertical pole and then fanned out over a series of hoops to cascade down to the ground . |
| 36 | The entrance from the road is in the top floor , with all the rooms and public areas on lower levels leading down to the lakeside . |
| 37 | Trees guard the house from the east winds ; meadows slope down to the water . |
| 38 | Stairs lead down to the bar area . |
| 39 | On the other hand we had watched the dismal faces of friends who were resuscitating old cottages and who spent their weekends streaking down to the country to see how the builders were getting on — and they were n't . |
| 40 | The two girls went down to the village that morning to secure a piece of board and some paint . |
| 41 | Streams wound down to the shore , murmuring . |
| 42 | It took him twenty minutes to get down to the town centre and turn into the street of tatty terraced houses behind the bus station were Nails lived . |
| 43 | He bared her breasts ; put his tongue to them as his hands went down to the belt of her skirt , to find that she 'd changed for the trip , and was wearing jeans . |
| 44 | The three children went down to the station at the right time , dressed in their best clothes , and the Station Master came to meet them . |
| 45 | As the hands go down to the floor , the right knee is cocked up near the right shoulder . |
| 46 | but to feel sorry for women and put their view forward because , I mean , you still the situation of a Friday when men go down to the pub and you know they 're all Jack the Lad ! |
| 47 | Mervyn , I suggest you , Eric and the rest of the men go down to the river . |
| 48 | There are several where headlands with steep sides reaching down to the sea just have a wall across the neck . |
| 49 | There are several where headlands with steep sides reaching down to the sea just have a wall across the neck . |
| 50 | A few white houses lined the road , and fields stretched down to the shore . |
| 51 | We had two perfect days skiing , early morning climbs being rewarded by long sweeping runs back down to the valley bottom on sun-softened neve . |
| 52 | It was tedious , but no longer alarming , and as she contrived most mornings to slip down to the shore for gulps of sea air , though she was careful now never to go beyond the rocks around the headland , she did not chafe at the confinement as once she had . |
| 53 | Women came down to the river in groups to wash clothes and pots . |
| 54 | The town itself has a pedestrian centre with quaint narrow streets leading down to the lake front . |
| 55 | You 'll have to pass under the gate-towers to get down to the west . |
| 56 | Stunning views on the Neapolitan Riviera , family bays in Apulia , and tiny hidden coves , where the hills come down to the sea , on the Tuscany Coast . |
| 57 | She groaned aloud in pleasure when his kisses continued down to the swell of her bosom . |
| 58 | Johnny Coppin hopes most of all that readers and listeners to his music and poetry collections will get a sense of the spirit of place of the land between the rivers meandering down to the sea |
| 59 | ‘ There , where the leaves come down to the water . |
| 60 | Nearing the Sandaig River , which rushes down from the mountains and passes beneath the road to enter the Sound , gated forest roads lead down to the beach where Gavin Maxwell had a cottage he called Camusfearna and wrote his world best-seller about his life there with the sea otters he admitted to his home as companions . |