Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others flow into a stone tank or pond , or have a brick well-housing , with steps leading down to the water . |
| 2 | She had reached the pier now , and , still fighting against the wind , made for the flight of iron steps leading down to the beach . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Seen from the rear , the house was exactly as she had described it , square and imposing with a flight of elegant stone steps leading down onto the grass . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | There were some steps going down to the foreshore near a riverside pub . |
| 9 | The sea wall ended , steps going down from the promenade and burying themselves in sand . |
| 10 | And there are steps going down from the drawing room , and up from the dining room . |
| 11 | And then they had the adits coming down from the top . |
| 12 | He said that his men were held back by the heat of the fire , which stripped plaster from the walls , burnt floorboards and brought ceilings crashing down onto the ground floor of the semidetached house . |
| 13 | But I did see black guillemots swimming down in the bay , and a gully full of boulders where they probably nest . ’ |
| 14 | Set in tropical gardens leading down to the beach , the Nyali Beach is one of Kenya 's best known hotels . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There were wires running down towards the floor . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There were hundreds of ropes going down to the stage below — it was a long , long way down . |
| 19 | Half an hour later Penelope was encased — for it was a fraction too tight for her — in the lame cocktail dress with the hem roughly tacked up , the sequin trimming torn away from the neck and a string of black beads hanging down below the waist . |
| 20 | There are few more pathetic sights than aggrieved bowlers staring down at the popping-crease after being no-balled , craning neck insinuating that the umpire was in error . |
| 21 | In the side-streets running down towards the river theatregoers are looking for parking-spaces , but on the pavements there 's no one but a few belated bureaucrats like myself , heading for trains and Tubes . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | At first , I thought it was spilt wine but then it spread and I noticed little splashes coming down from the ceiling above . |
| 24 | Sheep browsed on the foothills sweeping down to the river . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Situated on Beruwela Beach , the Neptune is a comfortable hotel set in a palm grove with lawns leading down to the sea . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 29 | These people are afghans … a few of the one million who fled the rockets raining down on the capital city , Kabul . |
| 30 | 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 . |