Example sentences of "down [prep] the town " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down towards the town humps of moraines gave a moonscape appearance whilst back toward Moskenes huge rocks were glistening with cormorants . |
| 2 | A pair of swans drifted down towards the town centre . |
| 3 | They walked down towards the town , and Julius finally stopped outside a small restaurant . |
| 4 | When I went the receptionist was just leaving and she walked down into the town with me . |
| 5 | They walked down into the town , now concealed by darkness , despite regulations that lantern horns were to be displayed outside each house . |
| 6 | Do n't you … no , I rarely go down into the town at the weekends . |
| 7 | She could go down into the town centre and look at the shops , have a cup of coffee somewhere , get back to her mother-in-law by four . |
| 8 | It was a silent drive back down into the town . |
| 9 | The house was quite high on the slopes and he could see the main road down into the town , and behind that the mountains on the other side of the valley sweeping up into the changing skies . |
| 10 | But when she had washed her hair and dressed in a new pair of designer jeans and a silk shirt that had been a Christmas present and which she 'd never worn before — it was n't to Eva 's house that she went but back down into the town , towards the theatre and the Franz Joseph . |
| 11 | We 've , into the village , we lived out in the countryside till I was eight , and we come down into the I should say town should n't I , we come down into the town when I was eight and I was there till I was twenty two , and I came up here , when I got married . |
| 12 | A boom was now built across the River Foyle which connected it , via Lough Foyle , with the open sea , and the 30,000 citizens began a long ordeal by privation and disease , in which many thousands died , while enemy bombs plunged down upon the town . |
| 13 | Seen outside the ‘ homely ’ Bull & Gate pub — just a few doors down from the Town & Country Club where your beloved NME is currently holding its superlative week of talent flaunting — a small sad notice fluttering in the wake of the jostling NICK CAVE-bound hordes , announcing : ‘ HURRAH , onstage tonight at 10.30pm . |
| 14 | Me father was a miner he worked down in the Town , |
| 15 | That 's down in the town , see . |
| 16 | Elsewhere there are Breughels ; walls covered with Delft tiles ; a medieval belfry with 366 steps from which you can gaze down on the town 's steep , red tiled roofs ; holy blood brought back from the crusades . |
| 17 | For the most part , the growth of this dome was accompanied by intermittent Vulcanian activity , responsible for the loud explosions heard in St Pierre and for the ash that was showered down on the town before and after the fateful 8 May . |
| 18 | Across the open space one could look down on the town , a busy , self-important place boosted in the last few years by highrise office blocks full of income-tax men and VAT clerks . |
| 19 | For more than a hundred and fifty years , the wily Scots continued to distil their whisky , smuggling it down to the towns and cities , and outwitting the hated excise officers and revenue men , who are today the stuff of legend . |
| 20 | I took this down to the town hall the following day and then set myself to the most urgent task in hand : trying to find another job . |
| 21 | The deep and steady Belmont stretch at Hereford gave good sport with dace from the pumphouse down to the town bridge . |
| 22 | ‘ Will you go down to the town , to the nearest phone box and get on to the station ? |
| 23 | Gloria and Dot went down to the Town Hall once a fortnight to collect Dot 's vitamin ration . |
| 24 | We know where he goes — down to the town about a mile away in search of a bitch . |
| 25 | I walked down to the town centre , which reminded me of an English country town , with shops of every kind . |
| 26 | It took him twenty minutes to get down to the town centre and turn into the street of tatty terraced houses behind the bus station were Nails lived . |
| 27 | Sir Alexander Seton was not in the least upset about being transferred down to the town . |
| 28 | In a gap in the trees I can now look down over a green vegetable pointillism of tree-tops , falling away down to the town . |
| 29 | At half-past eleven he went down to the town with Tony to collect the papers . |
| 30 | Julia stayed the rest of the day in bed , got up and bathed at six , dressed carefully in a green shirt and black jeans , and then walked slowly down to the town . |