Example sentences of "[noun] and down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quinn was forced into the back seat and down to the floor , then covered with a blanket . |
| 2 | Concerned at the way neither she nor her friends wore ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes ( too many frills , too much lace , all up to the neck and down to the ankles , they said ) Laura asked them to come up with suggestions for the sort of outfits they would like to wear . |
| 3 | His hands , sliding from her hair to her neck and down inside the filmy black blouse , denied the imputation . |
| 4 | The arm uncurled onto Richard 's chest and moved there over the nipples and down onto the tensing stomach . |
| 5 | In the case of the British , it was off with the cricket sweater and down to your marks . |
| 6 | He went down to his car and down to his company stock and he says now what the money 's due to me you 'll get them in the post . |
| 7 | If they managed to exact a sworn and written abrogation of the Act from every single proprietor in the strath ( and over into Tummel and down past Dunkeld ) , at least they would have built a paper wall round themselves . |
| 8 | A virulent form of the endemic bubonic plagues of medieval Europe , it swept across the country from the south-west and down from London . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The two men who were tending the fire under the boiler were Dr'gasians — squat and bald , with decorative tattoos which ran across their shoulders and down inside their tunics . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He walked on past the house to the steps and down to the shore . |
| 14 | They moved stealthily , the switches in their hands grasped like weapons through the rank smell of wild rhubarb and down towards the damp growth by the stream . |
| 15 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 16 | It was a well-attended service , families coming both from the village and down from the hills . |
| 17 | They looked out of the window and down on the merrymakers . |
| 18 | Jasper looked out of the window and down into the candlelight . |
| 19 | Wing Commander Douglas Farquhar looked out of his cockpit window and down to the left . |
| 20 | Martin was standing at the furthermost edge of the terrace , looking over the gardens and down to the sea . |
| 21 | Well , if I erm said to one of my students something about that was a very good essay you wrote , in fact I 'd like to discuss it a little bit more down at the pub and down at the pub I put my hand on his knee perhaps in making a point about how good his essay was . |
| 22 | Relaxed and complacent , we headed our way out of the pub and down to a dip — then straight up a ferocious bank turning right at a junction in the road , signposted to Dale End . |
| 23 | ‘ Farquhar ! ’ he gasped , and was borne off his feet and down into the water by the force of the attack . |
| 24 | She must get him on to his feet and down from the high moor before the impending storm . |
| 25 | We sat for a while by the cairn in the hot sun looking out before us , the only noise being the sound of the beck behind us falling over boulders and down towards Brackens Gill and the Dee . |
| 26 | Fortified for a final fight , we stuffed everything into our sacks and set off on the laborious slog back up Coire Raibeirt for a buffeted race against darkness over the plateau and down to the vast , eerily deserted car park . |
| 27 | The hub of all this activity was found in and around the market place and the Guildhall and down towards the Cathedral . |
| 28 | While the British army was , the French hoped , hurrying north to cope with this initial attack , the same warships — here lay the originality of the plan — would sail north-about round Scotland and down through the North Sea to Ostend . |
| 29 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
| 30 | It may progress to the throat , larynx and down onto the chest . |