Example sentences of "that [vb past] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boat house resembled a small chapel built into the sloping land that led down to the water 's edge , except that it was windowless and the bell in the tower no longer rang . |
| 2 | Kit Hegarty moved swiftly around her large house in a quiet road that led down to the sea . |
| 3 | I hurried down steep Flower Hill , a flowerless road of grey terraced houses and shops that led down to the bridge and the weir . |
| 4 | Luke Travis was standing at the top of the short flight of stone steps that led down to the garden . |
| 5 | She blinked as they emerged into blinding brightness and searing heat , and paused to fumble for her sunglasses before they descended the broad flight of steps that led down to the canal . |
| 6 | A heron scraiked below the steep slabs of stone that chuted down into the sea . |
| 7 | ( WES ) ( ANNE ) Still to come on Central News … the round the world race that came down to the line . |
| 8 | I was determined it was at the burn that came down by the distillery at the edge of the town . |
| 9 | The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up . |
| 10 | He could see by the dark light that came down from the night sky , a sky that glowed with vivid city lights , that on stands in nearby cages other eagles were listening to his story and staring at him silently . |
| 11 | They turned into the bottom of High Hill , and began to ascend it , leaning forward against the incline , and against the rain that drove down upon the umbrella . |
| 12 | So many lights ; the yellow lights of the arc-lamps that shone down on the river-bank ; the white lights from the flashes of the police photographers ; the blue lights of the police cars that lingered still around the scene . |
| 13 | He then ignored both of them , walking to the stairs that curved down into the room and taking the luggage up . |
| 14 | The limestone scarps that rushed down to the sea and broke up into islands hung over the town , dripping green and yellow trees . |
| 15 | It came and went in swirling waves that rushed down from the ceiling and swallowed her up . |
| 16 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 17 | And er they were still whistling and calling , so I went up on to the top of the bank and they it was this plantation that fell down in the warren and caught fire . |
| 18 | The track had , he recalled , two branches , separating as it dropped from the heathy ridge that looked down upon the river . |
| 19 | ‘ The floorboards that went down to the water with Harry , they stayed under . |
| 20 | There was quite a gang of us that went down to the station — four Walshes and me . |
| 21 | She liked wearing the cap ; it made her feel different , as did the long grey coat that went down to the top of her boots , because then she did not feel like Millie Forester , whose mother and father were dead and had no-one belonging to her , except the fat woman and the man with short legs , but more like a princess who , every now and again , donned strange clothes and went out among the common people , and was kind to them , and yet always remained a princess under the disguise . |
| 22 | Moderator I am not convinced that in rejecting the legislation that went down under the Barrier Act , presbyteries were merely endorsing the status quo . |
| 23 | Michael had long eyelashes and freckles that went down inside the neck of his uniform . |
| 24 | Each house stood high on the hillside that sloped down to the lakeside road , with curling or zig-zagging driveways and thick modern stone walls . |
| 25 | She called again , moving out through the gate until she stood at the top of the lower garden that sloped down to the bay . |
| 26 | Then , turning to his right , he came to a stretch of well-trimmed lawn that sloped down to the river , the far bank of which was policed by a row of severely pollarded willow trees . |
| 27 | As soon as she reached the open deer-park she ran , and she hardly paused until she came to the broad track that sloped down to the marsh , smiling and vivid green in the late afternoon sunshine . |
| 28 | At Brooke Parker 's there were men reversing a lorry against the bed of concrete that sloped down from the top of Thorpe Street to the wide loading-doors . |
| 29 | But from the sides of their mouths projected the glistening tusks of boars , and they were crowned with great , bristling manes of stiff hair that ran down to the base of their spines . |
| 30 | But , as she gazed around at the chintz sofas , and the French-provincial-style velvet-upholstered dining-room chairs — which she could see through a far open doorway — it occurred to Laura that maybe it was the only way to preserve such sumptuous furnishings on a shoreline likely to be damp and salty in the latter part of the year , while , outside the large windows , she could see automatic sprinklers drenching the fine green lawns that ran down to the beach . |