Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to the beach " in BNC.
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| 1 | It drowned the roar of the waves which she knew would be crashing on to the beach in impotent and seemingly endless fury . |
| 2 | Rachaela left the house and went to the steps which led down to the beach . |
| 3 | In Alexandria he found that the railway meandered down to the beach and passengers had to find their way on to the trains without any benefit of station buildings . |
| 4 | Therefore instead of walking all the way along the cliffs that morning , he decided to go down to the beach on the last lap of his journey , knowing that Edna and her small charge could well be at the far end , from whence he could quickly scramble up the pathway to the Tremayne property . |
| 5 | If I 'd have thought that Mrs Carrow would take it on herself to go down to the beach with little Celia that morning when one of my younger brothers came for me because my mum was ill , well I 'd never have gone , however much I was needed at home . |
| 6 | When we finally spill outside , Rachel says she wants to go down to the beach again . |
| 7 | She had exactly six hours till midnight , six hours to make up her mind whether to go down to the beach bar , or give it a miss for the very first time . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought of walking down to the beach and having a hamburger at Pepe 's . ’ |
| 9 | Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies . |
| 10 | Alternatively nip down to the beach , or stroll down to the centre of Puerto del Carmen where the nightlife buzzes , and the cafés and bars stay open until the small hours before returning to your very own home from home apartment , complete with facilities , terrace and garden . |
| 11 | The King , the Queen and their lords and ladies all came down to the beach to wave goodbye . |
| 12 | The green men in their cloaks of leaves and branches then discovered them , and came down to the beach and circled Dulé and his companions where they lay prone , and shook their fronds and squatted on their haunches and kicked their legs and tossed their heads and slapped palm to thigh , in order to rally them and send them off again ; pouring spirits and water into their faces to invigorate them , beating out a rhythm with their feet . |
| 13 | He drove down to the beach , but did not park near Pepe 's . |
| 14 | She had reached the pier now , and , still fighting against the wind , made for the flight of iron steps leading down to the beach . |
| 15 | The greatest single natural attraction of Durness , however , and visited by all who stay or halt there , is the famous Smoo Cave , quickly reached from the road by a much-trodden path leading down to the beach . |
| 16 | Set in tropical gardens leading down to the beach , the Nyali Beach is one of Kenya 's best known hotels . |
| 17 | There was a gate in the wall that overlooked the seashore — the wall where she and Guido had stood last night — with a flight of stone steps leading down to the beach . |
| 18 | Going down to the beach is one of PHIL ‘ DO N'T KICK SAND IN MY FACE ’ KING 's favourite pastimes . |
| 19 | At first I took them for Maria 's , though it seemed strange that she should be going down to the beach at that time . |
| 20 | " I 'm going down to the beach . " |
| 21 | We 're going down to the beach to look for mussels . ’ |
| 22 | Pop down to the beach and sell it to the pedlar ? ’ |
| 23 | Her thinking grabbed her and she raced down to the beach , and followed the rocky shoreline looking for signs of him , but saw nothing . |
| 24 | Erm no , I 'm normally I 'm , funny I was over that way last weekend cos er , you know , pop over to the beach and things . |
| 25 | The brave man turned his back on Silver and began to walk back to the beach . |
| 26 | Tuna are sometimes landed when they try to swim through holes in fishing nets and get their teeth caught in the mesh ; once trapped in this way , they can be dragged on to the beach with the net . |
| 27 | After a 20-minute battle against what he described as ‘ the roughest seas I have ever seen at Redcar ’ , he and the unconscious youth were flung on to the beach by the waves . |
| 28 | One January morning , the captain got up early and walked down to the beach . |
| 29 | After a couple of minutes he gave up the attempt , left the tool box by the cottage wall and walked to the edge of the cliff then slithered down to the beach . |
| 30 | He even test-sailed the course with a friend , allowing the Nancy to drift out to the Beach End buoy and make for Holland . |