Example sentences of "that [vb past] down [prep] the [noun] " 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 | For at that moment , directly below the steps that led down to the Moebius Strip , the float of dummy Capellans was purring serenely by . |
| 4 | I hurried down steep Flower Hill , a flowerless road of grey terraced houses and shops that led down to the bridge and the weir . |
| 5 | Luke Travis was standing at the top of the short flight of stone steps that led down to the garden . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Would he , seventeen years afterwards , be able to rediscover the mouth of the hole that led down into the Goughdale Mine ? |
| 8 | Werner was in his late forties with a short , stocky physique , thinning brown hair and a neatly trimmed russet moustache that tapered down over the corners of his mouth . |
| 9 | A heron scraiked below the steep slabs of stone that chuted down into the sea . |
| 10 | ( WES ) ( ANNE ) Still to come on Central News … the round the world race that came down to the line . |
| 11 | I was determined it was at the burn that came down by the distillery at the edge of the town . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Observers held their breath as the former Derry City and Shelbourne star took to the pitch for his first game but the thunderous greeting that cascaded down from the Windsor stands proved it was unnecessary caution . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The first such coins were made from electrum from the rivers that flowed down from the Troilus Mountains , but advantage was soon taken of the different status in the traditional value system of the gold and silver components to separate them and use them for different denominations . |
| 18 | He then ignored both of them , walking to the stairs that curved down into the room and taking the luggage up . |
| 19 | The limestone scarps that rushed down to the sea and broke up into islands hung over the town , dripping green and yellow trees . |
| 20 | It came and went in swirling waves that rushed down from the ceiling and swallowed her up . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The track had , he recalled , two branches , separating as it dropped from the heathy ridge that looked down upon the river . |
| 24 | ‘ The floorboards that went down to the water with Harry , they stayed under . |
| 25 | There was quite a gang of us that went down to the station — four Walshes and me . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Moderator I am not convinced that in rejecting the legislation that went down under the Barrier Act , presbyteries were merely endorsing the status quo . |
| 28 | Michael had long eyelashes and freckles that went down inside the neck of his uniform . |
| 29 | ‘ For years we had been trying to lower and streamline the bonnets of front-engined cars and the mid-engined configuration allowed us to obtain an extremely low nose , deeply recessed between sculpted front wings that sloped down to the headlights , which were contained in a plexiglass fairing to continue the line . |
| 30 | 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 . |