Example sentences of "and down [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a very long journey right across the Atlas mountains and down to the edge of the desert . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This agreed , Christine and Mary ran out and down to the bottom of the long garden where the apple-tree stood . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Snail tracks of peach juice ran from the heel of his hand , over his chest and down to the hollow of his belly . |
| 7 | His knee jerked up and down to the clacking of the metronome on the piano lid . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He stamped up and down at the limit of the firelight and listened to the silence of the hills . |
| 11 | Bishop Jon breathed gently , the stylus in his scrolled fingers voyaging up and down on the buoy of his abdomen . |
| 12 | I laughed and thrashed my hand up and down on the arm of my chair in an ecstasy of amusement . |
| 13 | The sergeant rubbed the palms of his hands up and down on the side of his chair and waited for his boss to continue . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | and down into the top of the leg . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Fort was a warren of underground tunnels and batteries and in every way a security nightmare , and the Prince 's staff and members of BitC ( also involved in the outing ) , who had done the recce , realized they had to get the Prince away from the youth schemes and down into the safety of the seminar very quickly . |
| 20 | Headache as if bruised all through the bones of the head and down into the root of the tongue with nausea . |
| 21 | ‘ For I am weary ’ , he wrote , ‘ with rowing up and down in the seas of questions , which the interests of Christendom have commenced , and in many propositions of which I am not certain that I am not deceived . ’ |
| 22 | " Later that evening , as El-ahrairah was urging his rabbits to growl more fiercely and run up and down in the marshes of Kelfazin , Prince Rainbow came over the river . |
| 23 | And down in the highlands of the south there is the extremely rare mountain zebra , with bold but more vertically arranged flank stripes . |
| 24 | It was bobbing up and down from the wash of a smart motorboat which had swept by , filled with haughty-looking Venetians with faces so medieval that they could have stepped straight from the history books . |
| 25 | By using salvaged slates , it was possible to revise the roof of the garage to a ‘ cat-slide ’ form projecting out and down from the eaves of the main rear roof-slope at a slightly shallower pitch than this surface ( Plate 10 ) . |
| 26 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 27 | For there really is something a little odd surrealist even in the idea of a folding-leaf Dining ( Bird ) Table , where the flaps are made to beat up and down like the wings of a bird . |