Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] down to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short flight of stone steps led down to the entrance . |
| 2 | His eyes flickered down to the gondola . |
| 3 | The reporter 's eyes flickered down to the floor . |
| 4 | Others flow into a stone tank or pond , or have a brick well-housing , with steps leading down to the water . |
| 5 | She had reached the pier now , and , still fighting against the wind , made for the flight of iron steps leading down to the beach . |
| 6 | There was a gate in the wall that overlooked the seashore — the wall where she and Guido had stood last night — with a flight of stone steps leading down to the beach . |
| 7 | The Doctor looked back from the short flight of steps leading down to the entry hall , and watched the TARDIS dematerialize with a feeling of pain at seeing his ship go without him . |
| 8 | The slight figure of a woman emerged from the hotel and stood on the steps leading down to the terrace , scanning the tables with anxious eyes and making agitated , jerky movements with her hands . |
| 9 | ‘ We decided to build a balcony with steps going down to the garden , but our builder advised us to think about the year-round advantages of a conservatory , ’ Claudia explained . |
| 10 | There were some steps going down to the foreshore near a riverside pub . |
| 11 | When the dun evening comes the kids go down to the irrigation channels for some bilharzia bathing . |
| 12 | Set in tropical gardens leading down to the beach , the Nyali Beach is one of Kenya 's best known hotels . |
| 13 | It 's set in its own park with beautiful rolling gardens leading down to the road which separates the hotel from its own private beach , yet is only a few minutes from the centre . |
| 14 | Catarrhs travel down to the larynx and hoarseness , to the trachea with burning worse ( < ) for coughing and to the chest with constriction and a cough . |
| 15 | Magnificent Georgian houses are clustered together while their large and colourful gardens sweep down to the river . |
| 16 | On Thursday night — late night shopping — Nails went down to the supermarket in his anorak with the big pockets and lifted six electric plugs , four pairs of scissors and a pair of pillowcases which he sold to a friend of his father 's for three pounds . |
| 17 | To the east , well fenced and warning hung , a sheer drop of two hundred feet fell down to the golf course . |
| 18 | THE INSPIRALS move down to the Harbour area and sit on a green patch with the sun beating down like it can rarely do in Oldham . |
| 19 | The guardian asked three climbers going down to the village to inform the police , as he was unable to contact them himself since the refuge radio was broken . |
| 20 | There were hundreds of ropes going down to the stage below — it was a long , long way down . |
| 21 | The new margins extend down to the division mark . |
| 22 | Chelmsford Auctions v. Poole involved the sale of a car which the auctioneers knocked down to the purchaser for £57 . |
| 23 | Once dolphins locate a school of fish , they spread out , some individuals diving down to the school of prey to herd it to the surface by swimming around and under the fish in an ever-tightening formation . |
| 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 | He found the stews around the riverside as busy as an overturned ant heap in summer as boatmen , sailors and fishermen flocked down to the river bank to watch the ice thaw . |
| 26 | Providing that the forms get down to the computer in London on time |
| 27 | The shops were closing and there was that burst of activity before things settled down to the evening calm . |
| 28 | In another , stalactites reached down to the floor and they walked through a forest of pillars . |
| 29 | Sheep browsed on the foothills sweeping down to the river . |
| 30 | The place was not a very grand huge château , but it was imposing and romantic nevertheless , with lawned terraces sweeping down to the drive , great old trees around it and a small lake to one side that actually lapped the lower walls . |