Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She clung to the front of her costume , gritting her teeth as he widened the circle of massage , smoothing the cream over her shoulders and down towards the small of her back . |
| 2 | He walked on past the house to the steps and down to the shore . |
| 3 | Martin was standing at the furthermost edge of the terrace , looking over the gardens and down to the sea . |
| 4 | ‘ Farquhar ! ’ he gasped , and was borne off his feet and down into the water by the force of the attack . |
| 5 | It was a very long journey right across the Atlas mountains and down to the edge of the desert . |
| 6 | There is only one road over the mountains and down to the desert , so it was stupid to assume — as I had done , without really thinking about it — that we should not see them again . |
| 7 | People slept in shelters and down in the Underground Stations . |
| 8 | They moved along passages and down to the cabin deck . |
| 9 | He had a deep yearning for those long-ago summer holiday afternoons spent on the lawns or down by the lake with the two Debrace children . |
| 10 | I said nothing , but turned away and walked as quickly as I could towards the stairs and down to the student canteen in the basement . |
| 11 | Past the trees and down towards the gate , out of the gate and into the clown 's car , through the town and then beside the ocean … |
| 12 | She went up on the hills or down to the beach . |
| 13 | There followed three weeks during which , in Coleridge 's comical retelling of events , Walsh displayed ‘ truly Indian perseverance ’ in tracking the poets on their daily excursions into the hills and down to the beach at Kilve . |
| 14 | Ten minutes to shovel in a plateful of hot stew or fish and chips , and then out again into the back streets and down to the Iron Green . |
| 15 | The Fort was a warren of underground tunnels and batteries and in every way a security nightmare , and the Prince 's staff and members of BitC ( also involved in the outing ) , who had done the recce , realized they had to get the Prince away from the youth schemes and down into the safety of the seminar very quickly . |
| 16 | He wanted to get away from the imagination , away from the vague glamour of medieval things , from reverence for tradition , from mysticism , enthusiasm and gloire ; away from all private visionary insights and down to the plain , measurable , publicly verifiable facts ; and this desire was central to his whole mission as a philosopher and reformer . |
| 17 | Downstairs a Disco will bring the tired and the weary in from the cattle drives and down from the cash tills. the Saloon will stay open late . |
| 18 | This opens up a directory browser so that you can navigate across the disks and down through the directory structure to find the program you want ( in this case QFTD.EXE ) . |