Example sentences of "[noun pl] and down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arm uncurled onto Richard 's chest and moved there over the nipples and down onto the tensing stomach . |
| 2 | She clung to the front of her costume , gritting her teeth as he widened the circle of massage , smoothing the cream over her shoulders and down towards the small of her back . |
| 3 | He walked on past the house to the steps and down to the shore . |
| 4 | Martin was standing at the furthermost edge of the terrace , looking over the gardens and down to the sea . |
| 5 | ‘ Farquhar ! ’ he gasped , and was borne off his feet and down into the water by the force of the attack . |
| 6 | She must get him on to his feet and down from the high moor before the impending storm . |
| 7 | It was a very long journey right across the Atlas mountains and down to the edge of the desert . |
| 8 | There is only one road over the mountains and down to the desert , so it was stupid to assume — as I had done , without really thinking about it — that we should not see them again . |
| 9 | Alerted by a grapevine of unparalleled efficiency to the presence of honkies with money , hitherto undiscovered talents began swarming in from the ghettos and down from the hills , bearing tape-recordings , even guitars , for impromptu auditions . |
| 10 | The top of the anticline has been worn away , down to the Millstone Grit in some places and down to the Carboniferous Limestone in others . |
| 11 | People slept in shelters and down in the Underground Stations . |
| 12 | They moved along passages and down to the cabin deck . |
| 13 | The biggest surprise here is that the TBM 700 seems to shrink into a much smaller and lighter aircraft when flown below ninety knots and down to the gear-down/flaps-down 61-knot stall speed . |
| 14 | I said nothing , but turned away and walked as quickly as I could towards the stairs and down to the student canteen in the basement . |
| 15 | Its usual course flows from above the lorry park , round the trees and down to the lower bridge which marks its normal width . |
| 16 | Past the trees and down towards the gate , out of the gate and into the clown 's car , through the town and then beside the ocean … |
| 17 | And what a snore he had … strong , long , thick and hard , it was a snore that went on all night long , a snore that never let up , baby ! … a snore that reached the highest heights and the deepest depths , a snore that took you up among the stars and down into the very inside of yourself . |
| 18 | The Sergeant came barging into the Nissen hut , bawling out , ‘ Right , you bloody lot , if you have any homes to go to , get out of those pits and down to the orderly room , sharpish , or you wo n't get a bloody pass . ’ |
| 19 | But they turn out to be of Ancient History , so the flies blunder moodily against the parlour window beyond which the June sun ripens tempting dinners at roadsides and down by the strong-smelling beach ; day after day after day . |
| 20 | There followed three weeks during which , in Coleridge 's comical retelling of events , Walsh displayed ‘ truly Indian perseverance ’ in tracking the poets on their daily excursions into the hills and down to the beach at Kilve . |
| 21 | Ten minutes to shovel in a plateful of hot stew or fish and chips , and then out again into the back streets and down to the Iron Green . |
| 22 | The Fort was a warren of underground tunnels and batteries and in every way a security nightmare , and the Prince 's staff and members of BitC ( also involved in the outing ) , who had done the recce , realized they had to get the Prince away from the youth schemes and down into the safety of the seminar very quickly . |
| 23 | He wanted to get away from the imagination , away from the vague glamour of medieval things , from reverence for tradition , from mysticism , enthusiasm and gloire ; away from all private visionary insights and down to the plain , measurable , publicly verifiable facts ; and this desire was central to his whole mission as a philosopher and reformer . |
| 24 | ‘ They had to come streaming out of the forests and down to the Bright Palace , in answer to the summons of their Lords … ’ |
| 25 | It keeps the whole roof in position and transmits its weight , and the considerable windloadings it is subjected to , through the walls and down to the foundations . |
| 26 | Downstairs a Disco will bring the tired and the weary in from the cattle drives and down from the cash tills. the Saloon will stay open late . |
| 27 | This opens up a directory browser so that you can navigate across the disks and down through the directory structure to find the program you want ( in this case QFTD.EXE ) . |
| 28 | The skeleton of the body took shape and when complete would be lifted on to rollers , rolled along the timber , out through the double doors and down to the waiting chassis in the yard by means of skids . |