Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 There were hundreds of ropes going down to the stage below — it was a long , long way down .
2 The Doctor looked back from the short flight of steps leading down to the entry hall , and watched the TARDIS dematerialize with a feeling of pain at seeing his ship go without him .
3 The alley ended abruptly in a couple of steps leading down to the sluggish black waters of a canal .
4 It has a flight of steps leading down into the depths , and its main feature is a high waterfall that emerges from behind a wedged boulder known as Mohammed 's Coffin .
5 Several nearby windows came up and a number of guns flew down into the street .
6 This reiterates the whole catch-all section 2 of the Official Secrets Act of 1911 , as well as the scale of punishments laid down by the Official Secrets Act of 1920 for those who
7 I mean what what sort of things happen down on the ground ground level ?
8 Ramblers were often trained as weeping standards , with their stems tied to a vertical pole and then fanned out over a series of hoops to cascade down to the ground .
9 At the back of the hall a flight of stairs led down to the servants ' kitchen .
10 I leant against a chestnut , one of a bib of trees leading down to the Wild Garden .
11 The enormous necropolis is adjacent and contains hundreds of tombs cut down into the tufa over a distance of two miles .
12 They had expected some throwing of stones and worse from whatever straggle of peasants ventured down from the hills to the banks , and that they received .
13 These vines overlook a small north-south running valley , on the other side of which a 170-metre high spur of vines drops down to the northwestern edge of the village .
14 An apparently apocryphal account is of two Prussian medical officers , Fritsch and Hitzig , who In 1870 took advantage of the opportunity offered by the Franco-Prussian War to study the exposed brains of soldiers struck down on the battlefield . "
15 Swirls of clouds billowed down from the Towers and the glaciers hung vertically , suspended like gigantic icicles , while flocks of birds scattered and spun before them , helpless in the wild turbulence .
16 A pair of swans drifted down towards the town centre .
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