Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the woods were dank and damp , and every icy , unexpected drip on to her hair or down the back of her neck made her regret having left her umbrella behind long before she reached the tower . |
| 2 | After all , up the lads and down the hatch . |
| 3 | The Doctor and Ace pounded breathlessly through the grotto and down the tunnel after Mait . |
| 4 | ‘ Sir John , ’ Athelstan persisted , ‘ it 's not far — a few miles through Aldgate and down the Mile End Road . |
| 5 | For some unknown reason prickles sprang up all over her shoulders and down the length of both arms . |
| 6 | Water comes through the roof seams through the windscreen frame and can even come around the rear vents and down the roof side rails to fall on the driver 's knee when braking . |
| 7 | He wrote : ‘ It is like a vast supermarket in which absentmindedly , yet intent on what we are doing , we push our shopping trolleys up one aisle and down the other , while death and alienation have the run of the place . ’ |
| 8 | His blue shirt , open at the neck and showing a mat of black hair , was wet with sweat in the armpits and down the back . |
| 9 | She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas . |
| 10 | On the one hand they must move along the lines and down the page ; on the other they must be still if you are to read a word . |
| 11 | She slowed and turned right crossing the Chemin de BelleFontaine and down the Route de la Capite , upwards off the main highway and into the Chemin Faguillon . |
| 12 | in their black nets and down the mountainside |
| 13 | Presumably they pick up the pinta and down the sherry and beer as well , not to mention making it look as if the reindeers have had a go at the carrots . |
| 14 | A wave of hot air rushed around the fleeing Karnstein and down the tunnel . |
| 15 | They walked back through the kitchen and down the hallway to the front entrance of the house . |
| 16 | From Scotland Yard , Nigel Cramer and six officers set off in two patrol cars , their sirens howling up Whitehall and down the Mall to pick up Park Lane and the road north out of London . |
| 17 | I am sure they had the pious hope that this foundation would actually serve to increase the nation 's general fitness by pumping money into sport , but if the money is to go on improving facilities at cricket clubs and down the country , then a large number of cricketers who rely on lousy playing conditions for their place in the side will be forced into retirement . |
| 18 | She went along the landing and down the staircase , still in a waking dream , crossing the hall and seeing Penman there , waiting to open the drawing-room door for her , as if it was someone she was watching perform , not herself but another being altogether . |
| 19 | And his breath too was warm against her cheek and down the back of her neck , making her spine tingle . |
| 20 | However , I did find that after a short time the material began to pill quite badly around the cuffs and down the front . |
| 21 | The ‘ chute is then pulled into a sausage , with that extra line from the release pin passing through the vent and down the parachute , leaving a few inches of line to spare . |
| 22 | The belly was covered in long piercing spikes , and I was going to fall on them any minute , and thousands of spikes would plunge into me — puncture me , penetrate my flesh — and out would pour my life 's blood , red and sticky , all down my body and down the elephant 's body and streakily into the waters of the pond . |
| 23 | He went inside and the kitchen scents hit him then , laying down a trail that drew him across the creaking boards and down the hall . |
| 24 | She opened the window , climbed out of the room and down the ivy on the wall . |
| 25 | Pulling the cover up over her mother 's shoulders , Maura crept from the room and down the stain . |
| 26 | At the very least I had expected him to be physically frail and mentally chastened ; a boy worn out by his long addiction and frightened of the criminal charges that hung over him , but instead he came out of the limo and down the dock with the frisky energy of a puppy . |
| 27 | ‘ And he 'd go away and chuck it in the bin or down the sink and come back with a new one . |
| 28 | They slapped their way hastily along the wet pavements , into the main road , up one block and down the side-road that flanked the cinema . |
| 29 | We need buckets and buckets of water for washing and cooking and putting in the vodka and down the lav . ’ |
| 30 | In the stunned silence that followed , Patrick raced up the stairs and down the hall and had the door open and was actually in the room before another word had been spoken . |