Example sentences of "[noun] down by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows . |
| 2 | Fancy ten minutes down by the river , dog ? ’ |
| 3 | The little B&B down by the harbour was far more in keeping with the thread of the sea that had kept with me the whole day 's travel from west to east coast Scotland . |
| 4 | Four boys , drunk to the wide , started a mock fight down by the park railings . |
| 5 | Art has served his country town well this country town well , he lived he all his life all in a small cottage down by the river . |
| 6 | I 've a small cottage down by the coast — it is n't being used this weekend . |
| 7 | Their world is being turned upside down by the cable revolution and the string of multimedia technologies coming down the pike , but US telephone companies — both local and long-distance — will maintain strong credit quality throughout the 1990s despite major competitive , regulatory and technological challenges , Moody 's Investors Service Inc concludes in its annual report on the industry . |
| 8 | It was over six weeks since she had come to work here , and six weeks to the day since his kiss and their painfully honest talk down by the river beneath the moonlight . |
| 9 | It 's laughable , afraid of a storm but brave enough to wait in the dark down by the river and bash your friend over the head . |
| 10 | The man in the attic had been dragged through the gaps under the roof to one of the empty houses next door , and from there to the bushes down by the beck where the sound of his coughing would not give him away . |
| 11 | The party was held at his flat which was a loft in a warehouse down by the river in Shad Thames on a wharf right next to Tower Bridge I 'd never seen anywhere like it . |
| 12 | There were a few wooden beach huts down by the shoreline . |
| 13 | Seated on one stool by the wall of the hut , with her foot resting on another , Paige stared gloomily at Travis 's figure down by the water 's edge . |
| 14 | He invites Howard to lunch one day ( sandwiches , in the garden of a pub down by the river , at a battered green table with a hole in the middle for an umbrella ) . |
| 15 | They had eaten their lunch down by the lake . |
| 16 | ‘ He recovered after that business down by the river ? |
| 17 | MOVES to demolish a historic former engine shed near Whitby railway station and to build two blocks of flats and a house on the site have been given the thumbs down by the Department of the Environment . |
| 18 | The sky was soon dark and the sound of heavy bombs exploding died away , to be replaced by shells passing over the orchard from the British guns down by the river Orne . |
| 19 | They found the Mock Turtle down by the sea . |
| 20 | How often she and Frank had spent the day down by the river , fishing for the cunning trout , or lazing in the damp grass , talking . |
| 21 | Erm you could of underline down by the bottom |
| 22 | I had a fellow come rushing out to me , point duty outside Legs o' Man pub one night , when I was directing traffic , puts a bottle of beer down by the side of me . |
| 23 | There were hordes of people down by the sea-front . |
| 24 | At the same time a determined police search for Terry Place began in the area down by the river . |
| 25 | He did have red hair and he had certainly been interested in the whole area down by the river walk . |
| 26 | Dusk was just falling as they turned into the parking area down by the river . |
| 27 | At first we thought we had no neighbours down by the river : nearly all the picture windows were blank . |
| 28 | Hedge-hopping yellow hammers proved another diversion and a flock of blue ties flickered and contact-called , ‘ psi-psi-psi ’ , from the willows down by the water 's edge . |
| 29 | When the meal was finished Harry excused himself , as he always did , and went to take a nap down by the pool . |
| 30 | He dumped the cylinder down by the sitting-room hearth and knelt to stack peat and coal over the cold core of the fire . |