Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] the river " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent a lot of time discovering and browsing through the bookshops , and then reading on the lawns which led down to the river Cam from the backs of the colleges . |
| 2 | Turning her back on the sunset , she crossed the yard to where a track , wide enough to take a vehicle , led down to the river . |
| 3 | He wanted her to go down to the river with him . |
| 4 | First the Cutty Sark and then we 'll explore down by the river . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm driving down towards the river , ’ he said . |
| 6 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
| 7 | Teetering on the sheer cliff , Tallis peered down at the river . |
| 8 | When he was clear of the goat herds and the sheep that grazed around the village , he moved down to the river that was a tributary of the distant Tigris . |
| 9 | The venue was the carpark of the College of Textiles , but as this was not a particularly photogenic location we moved down to the river , a short distance away . |
| 10 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
| 11 | I run to the house with Mrs Gould and we get everybody — my mum and dad and the other guests — to come down to the river . |
| 12 | That settled , we wandered down to the river looking for food and natural wonders . |
| 13 | A roadside gate opposite admits to a field sloping down to the river ( no path ; no right of way so seek permission to visit ) where , in a wild and impressive setting , the Dee , here flowing in a deep ravine , leaps in a waterfall into a deep pool beneath a high canopy of trees . |
| 14 | It was not in any way grand : simply a solid nineteenth-century country residence with a small courtyard and a pleasant garden sloping down to the river ; the sort of place , Celia reckoned , which had been built for a man of some substance : a prosperous merchant or , more likely , a gentleman farmer , the land having been incorporated into the nearby estate . |
| 15 | " When you get into the field you can see the wood sloping down to the river . |
| 16 | A wooden gate at the side of the house led to a neatly tended garden at the back , the lawn sloping down to the river , with a path of paving stones laid along the middle , ending on the edge of the waters at what looked like a small landing-stage , perhaps once used to moor a small boat or punt , but apparently ( as Lewis shone his torch across it ) not in recent use . |
| 17 | But sitting up in the bedroom looking down towards the river , she was asking herself more often of late whether meat and clothing were all there was to life . |
| 18 | Looking down at the river , she could see that the level had dropped , uncovering lines of bricks on the wall beneath them that looked as if they rarely saw the sun . |
| 19 | The Prince and McPhee had walked on to the top of the bank and were standing looking down at the river . |
| 20 | One wonders whether he observed this on his visits to Hailing as the houses of the villagers spread down to the river near the Palace , an ideal place for the collecting of rushes . |
| 21 | I put forward the idea to Mme Bluot that , rather than sit either side of a table , reminding Didier of school and his failure to keep up , he and I would do better to talk down by the river , in the park , even in the Café du Coin . |
| 22 | Women came down to the river in groups to wash clothes and pots . |
| 23 | The women who came down to the river , no doubt fearful of looks themselves , avoided the barge . |
| 24 | At Gebe/ Serag the cultivation on the east bank disappeared altogether and the desert came down to the river , leaving only the railway line and a few scrubby bushes clinging to the water 's edge . |
| 25 | A little later , Lok 's interpretation of the scene is rendered without the introductory simile : " a track among the green smoke began to twist and sway down towards the river … |
| 26 | Walk down to the river , it was all countryside |
| 27 | And the dear , good man had designed Almsmead , in the centre of a green field ; had surrounded it with a rose-garden ; given her apple trees and a lily-pond ; a trellised , covered walk down to the river with its clear , clean water in which she could see smooth pebbles and little silvery fishes instead of the slime and gas bubbles and dead cats one saw — if one had the stomach to look — in Frizingley 's canal . |
| 28 | IN comparison to the other places we 'd visited until then , and to those we would subsequently see , Porto was the most touristy — but not unpleasantly so , and we strolled down to the river Douro where all the famous port cellars are . |
| 29 | Then , staring across the moonlit yard , she saw his tall figure standing at the top of the slope leading down to the river . |
| 30 | This is the area between the southern edge of the shopping area and the top of the bluffs which run down to the river . |