Example sentences of "[coord] down [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Below 700m many of the soils are man-made — the soils on the terraces having been brought up from the river mouths or down from the bases of the escarpments . |
| 3 | It was a very long journey right across the Atlas mountains and down to the edge of the desert . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For reply Robyn ran her hands instinctively across his chest , down and down to the waist of his jeans , further to his inner thigh , to the place where his need was strongest . |
| 6 | He dipped the headlights and the far end of the tunnel seemed to leap towards us , bouncing up and down to the thump of our tyres on the sleepers . |
| 7 | This agreed , Christine and Mary ran out and down to the bottom of the long garden where the apple-tree stood . |
| 8 | France too possessed a very efficient cabinet noir , and down to the fall of the Duc de Choiseul in 1770 most of her Foreign Ministers also held the post of Surintendant-Général des Postes , thus maintaining effective control over so valuable an auxiliary . |
| 9 | Snail tracks of peach juice ran from the heel of his hand , over his chest and down to the hollow of his belly . |
| 10 | This pleasant hotel is built on a slight rise , and has excellent views of the mountains behind it and down to the village in front . |
| 11 | His knee jerked up and down to the clacking of the metronome on the piano lid . |
| 12 | Without discounting the possibility that sources may yet be found in the mountains of China , present indications are that jade was already reaching China in Neolithic times by the route followed during the Bronze Age and down to the time of Sir Aurel Stein 's travels in inner Asia at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 13 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 14 | He stamped up and down at the limit of the firelight and listened to the silence of the hills . |
| 15 | The exact circumstances are forgotten , but I do remember serving as baby-sitter for the Menuhin infant while Papa Yehudi took his violin off to the concert , and I recall walking up and down with the child in my arms to keep it from crying . |
| 16 | Mr Azul bucks up and down on the bed in a bizarre parody of sexual energy . |
| 17 | And we were walking up and down on the beach at Aldeburgh and the most interesting part of our conversation was that we were saying we both started out as not conservatives , I 've never voted conservative in my life , but we started out as very loyal people . |
| 18 | They ca n't but they , it should , it should have been possible for the councils to have I do n't know it , it it seems I , I put it down , I remember walking up and down on the beach with John about eight weeks ago was it ? |
| 19 | Inching one eyelid open , Laura saw that Sophie — or was it Emma ? — was now happily bouncing up and down on the mattress beside her . |
| 20 | ‘ I think it would be a good idea if we all had a swim before breakfast , do n't you ? ’ he said , the announcement seized upon with alacrity by the two little girls who , once again , began jumping up and down on the mattress as if it were a trampoline . |
| 21 | Bishop Jon breathed gently , the stylus in his scrolled fingers voyaging up and down on the buoy of his abdomen . |
| 22 | I laughed and thrashed my hand up and down on the arm of my chair in an ecstasy of amusement . |
| 23 | The sergeant rubbed the palms of his hands up and down on the side of his chair and waited for his boss to continue . |
| 24 | He desperately wanted to show Becky how much he appreciated all she had done , and settled for bouncing up and down on the corner of the bed |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It must be continuous around the walls , so on a sloping site it will step up and down along the joints in the brickwork . |
| 27 | The route leads to St Etienne , a distance of 195 kilometres , over the wooded slopes of the Vercors National Park and down into the valley of the Rhône , the majestic river that flows between the foothills of the Alps and the Massif Central . |
| 28 | ‘ Farquhar ! ’ he gasped , and was borne off his feet and down into the water by the force of the attack . |
| 29 | and down into the top of the leg . |
| 30 | Jezrael swung herself breathless over a bar of rock and down into the wind-shadow of a huge erratic that faced the sharp-cut sunrise . |