Example sentences of "[noun pl] and down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arm uncurled onto Richard 's chest and moved there over the nipples and down onto the tensing stomach . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He walked on past the house to the steps and down to the shore . |
| 5 | Martin was standing at the furthermost edge of the terrace , looking over the gardens and down to the sea . |
| 6 | ‘ Farquhar ! ’ he gasped , and was borne off his feet and down into the water by the force of the attack . |
| 7 | She must get him on to his feet and down from the high moor before the impending storm . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was a very long journey right across the Atlas mountains and down to the edge of the desert . |
| 10 | There is only one road over the mountains and down to the desert , so it was stupid to assume — as I had done , without really thinking about it — that we should not see them again . |
| 11 | Alerted by a grapevine of unparalleled efficiency to the presence of honkies with money , hitherto undiscovered talents began swarming in from the ghettos and down from the hills , bearing tape-recordings , even guitars , for impromptu auditions . |
| 12 | The top of the anticline has been worn away , down to the Millstone Grit in some places and down to the Carboniferous Limestone in others . |
| 13 | People slept in shelters and down in the Underground Stations . |
| 14 | ‘ Not at all , ’ he murmured , and reached up a strong hand to flick it out , but not before Rachel had noticed how long his fingers were , and how black hairs grew over his wrists and down towards those fingers . |
| 15 | The pound is up more than two cents at ( $1.88 ) one dollar , eighty-eight cents and down at ( DM2.85 ) two marks , eighty-five cents . |
| 16 | The pound is down at one dollar , fifty-two cents and down at two marks , forty-five . |
| 17 | They moved along passages and down to the cabin deck . |
| 18 | But soon it was on with those famous upside-down glasses and down to business . |
| 19 | The biggest surprise here is that the TBM 700 seems to shrink into a much smaller and lighter aircraft when flown below ninety knots and down to the gear-down/flaps-down 61-knot stall speed . |
| 20 | I said nothing , but turned away and walked as quickly as I could towards the stairs and down to the student canteen in the basement . |
| 21 | Its usual course flows from above the lorry park , round the trees and down to the lower bridge which marks its normal width . |
| 22 | Past the trees and down towards the gate , out of the gate and into the clown 's car , through the town and then beside the ocean … |
| 23 | And what a snore he had … strong , long , thick and hard , it was a snore that went on all night long , a snore that never let up , baby ! … a snore that reached the highest heights and the deepest depths , a snore that took you up among the stars and down into the very inside of yourself . |
| 24 | The route this year will once again start from Bournemouth Pier , run along the promenade up to Hengistbury Head , before leaving the line of the sea as it heads up the scenic cliff tops and down to Boscombe Pier . |
| 25 | The Sergeant came barging into the Nissen hut , bawling out , ‘ Right , you bloody lot , if you have any homes to go to , get out of those pits and down to the orderly room , sharpish , or you wo n't get a bloody pass . ’ |
| 26 | But they turn out to be of Ancient History , so the flies blunder moodily against the parlour window beyond which the June sun ripens tempting dinners at roadsides and down by the strong-smelling beach ; day after day after day . |
| 27 | Even before I met him I 'd admired a North Shore picture of his which showed the Kam Highway as it meandered out of the hills and down into Haleiwa , flanked by pineapple plantations and clumps of trees , and in the distance the Pacific , rippling with big waves . |
| 28 | There followed three weeks during which , in Coleridge 's comical retelling of events , Walsh displayed ‘ truly Indian perseverance ’ in tracking the poets on their daily excursions into the hills and down to the beach at Kilve . |
| 29 | Ten minutes to shovel in a plateful of hot stew or fish and chips , and then out again into the back streets and down to the Iron Green . |
| 30 | 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 . |