Example sentences of "feet down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church is built close to the edge of the bluff , which falls an overgrown eighty or ninety feet down into the wide bed of the gave or river ; and the view up or downstream is dignified further by the curtain wall of the medieval Tour Monréal , that stands at one corner of the small square in front of the church . |
| 2 | As soon as I dropped about 70 feet down towards the restaurant , via the tourist runway with its ridiculous little suburban garden fences bordering the steps , the wind ceased and I stepped out of the snow . |
| 3 | The alluvial soil on which the city stood was frozen all year round but thawed a few feet down during the summer . |
| 4 | ‘ Interesting , ’ said Corman , as he sat back in his chair and banged his feet down on the row of seats in front of him . |
| 5 | Of a dive that took her 1,250 feet down to the floor of the Pacific , Sylvia Earle said , ‘ The light was faint but , when my eyes adjusted , the world I saw was incredibly beautiful . |
| 6 | Just below the glen the valley widens out into what is known as Rocky Valley , finally dropping off the map in rugged cliffs with a fall of some fifty or so feet down to the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 7 | From these thrashing heights they would then shin ninety feet down to the decks again on single frayed and rusting wires . |
| 8 | Slowly , he swung his feet down to the floor and sat up , experimentally flexing a pair of broad shoulders to ease an apparent tension . |
| 9 | ‘ Thank you for bringing my feet down to the ground . |
| 10 | There is a big bundle of feathers called the incubator bird which lays its eggs six feet down in the hot black sand , and whose offspring emerge huge and fully feathered against the heat . |
| 11 | Here a great mass of molten rock , lying only a few thousand feet down in the earth 's crust , heats the rocks on the surface . |
| 12 | These specialised workers , known to entomologists as repletes , never leave the nest but inhabit galleries six feet down in the red earth . |