Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] down from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sea wall ended , steps going down from the promenade and burying themselves in sand . |
| 2 | And there are steps going down from the drawing room , and up from the dining room . |
| 3 | And then they had the adits coming down from the top . |
| 4 | At first , I thought it was spilt wine but then it spread and I noticed little splashes coming down from the ceiling above . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There is a comfy lounge , a bar and a stylish TV room and the traditional style dining-room boasts an amazing rococo fantasy of cherubs and angels looking down from the building 's original ceiling . |
| 7 | The engine compartment had to be outside the cockpit for acoustic and thermal insulation so we introduced a vertical backlight for good rear visibility and blended it into the fins sloping down from the roof , which gave a certain lightness to the rear pillars , This solution has become a constant feature on all Pininfarina Ferraris up to the Testarossa . |
| 8 | All things have drawbacks , however , and the sulphurous fumes wafting down from the crater were distinctly smelly , and the occupants of the tunnel awoke in the morning with headaches and mouths that tasted like the bottom of a parrot 's cage . |