Example sentences of "the [noun] down by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's laughable , afraid of a storm but brave enough to wait in the dark down by the river and bash your friend over the head . |
| 2 | The man in the attic had been dragged through the gaps under the roof to one of the empty houses next door , and from there to the bushes down by the beck where the sound of his coughing would not give him away . |
| 3 | MOVES to demolish a historic former engine shed near Whitby railway station and to build two blocks of flats and a house on the site have been given the thumbs down by the Department of the Environment . |
| 4 | How often she and Frank had spent the day down by the river , fishing for the cunning trout , or lazing in the damp grass , talking . |
| 5 | At the same time a determined police search for Terry Place began in the area down by the river . |
| 6 | He dumped the cylinder down by the sitting-room hearth and knelt to stack peat and coal over the cold core of the fire . |
| 7 | Hedge-hopping yellow hammers proved another diversion and a flock of blue ties flickered and contact-called , ‘ psi-psi-psi ’ , from the willows down by the water 's edge . |
| 8 | Well he 's all the way down by the pelican . |
| 9 | I 'm not used to scotch and I went into the gents down by the station to be sick . ’ |