Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] the sea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving the grassland behind , the terrain became more barren with cliffs and rocks tumbling down into the sea . |
| 2 | Clinging to the hillside amid scenic splendour , these houses sternly defy gravity by not tumbling down to the sea below . |
| 3 | So great is the traffic between those striving to clamber down to the sea and those who , having spawned , are attempting to get back again , that many can not reach the water . |
| 4 | For some reason , this letter so unnerved her that she thought she must rush down to the sea at once , and run the thudding in her head quite out of it . |
| 5 | Kit Hegarty moved swiftly around her large house in a quiet road that led down to the sea . |
| 6 | ‘ What on earth possessed you to go down to the sea ? ’ asked Mrs Ridley . |
| 7 | Only that she did n't want to go down to the sea again . ’ |
| 8 | now if I want to go down to the sea front well I 'll shall get a taxi and , and sha n't be worrying where me next meals coming from because I 've saved it , so , so that 's , that 's no worry , I was saying to Arthur if we went to Butlins well it would take all we had , because it , we could n't go to Butlins under three hundred pounds for two of us , we could n't go anywhere else , if we go to Blackpool , our , our said to , to , to dad , I , I would like to pop to , er I do n't think we will do because , er , the hassle for your dad , but er , I 'd like to go and see aunty Annie , but I do n't want to go to Nelson to do it |
| 9 | A heron scraiked below the steep slabs of stone that chuted down into the sea . |
| 10 | It was all forest here once , and then , ages ago , there was a flood ; the forest sank down under the sea . |
| 11 | The Jew had left Judaea , where the capital has a name difficult to pronounce ( they call it Ierusalem ) and had come down to the sea . |
| 12 | If you walked up the brow at the back of the house you were in two minutes up on a great closely cropped bare turfy expanse , looking down at the sea ; and to the left all the indentations of the coastline , the bays , the beaches and coves within them , the tumble of rocks at the bottom of some sheer cliff , far west to lonely and uninhabitable shores , was visible . |
| 13 | P.O. ( A ) Jopling and his TAG , L/A Glen , were in the Skua ( L3007 ) , they and the Fulmar firing from long range but only achieving a single hit on the dorsal turret , but both then closed in and after further firing the much-damaged floatplane came down on the sea , the engineer breaking an arm during the crash-landing . |
| 14 | The sun was still hidden behind Spyglass Hill , which came down to the sea in dangerous cliffs on this side of the island . |
| 15 | At Ullapool the midday early November sun was low in the sky , white gold fanning down into the sea beyond Scoraig peninsula ; An Teallach hid its snow caps , cut off by a cool indigo-grey cloud . |
| 16 | Thacker in P3733 were both shot down into the sea , while Flt.Lt . |
| 17 | Harry Moyle himself was rescued after being shot down in the sea ( by Spitfires , in fact ) and was rescued by a fishing boat from North Berwick . |
| 18 | Situated on Beruwela Beach , the Neptune is a comfortable hotel set in a palm grove with lawns leading down to the sea . |
| 19 | Notable is the outstanding , densely-wooded Haleakala National Park which leads down to the sea . |
| 20 | She had meant to walk down to the sea today to greet it on her first Christmas here , her own sea , her own stretch of wild grey winter water . |
| 21 | We could look down towards the sea , where the blue water seemed to scatter into a harmless white spray against the shore . |
| 22 | So I walked down to the sea and before long , I was at the ship and was swimming round it . |
| 23 | The limestone scarps that rushed down to the sea and broke up into islands hung over the town , dripping green and yellow trees . |
| 24 | He glanced down at the sea , then back at Endill . |
| 25 | I feel like jumping out and running down to the sea 's edge with bucket and spade . |
| 26 | The sites they choose for nesting are the steep-sided inland gorges and cliffs formed by the rivers which rush down to the sea from the great ice-caps . |
| 27 | But what about this : in 1853 , at Trouville , he watched the sun go down over the sea , and declared that it resembled a large disc of redcurrant jam . |
| 28 | Why do n't you go down to the sea and get a blow before tea ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Let's go down to the sea , ’ he urged . |
| 30 | When later on she went down to the sea she felt almost as cheerful again as in pre-Andrée days . |