Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | The Doctor and Ace pounded breathlessly through the grotto and down the tunnel after Mait . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They walked back through the kitchen and down the hallway to the front entrance of the house . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And his breath too was warm against her cheek and down the back of her neck , making her spine tingle . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She opened the window , climbed out of the room and down the ivy on the wall . |
| 12 | Pulling the cover up over her mother 's shoulders , Maura crept from the room and down the stain . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ And he 'd go away and chuck it in the bin or down the sink and come back with a new one . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We need buckets and buckets of water for washing and cooking and putting in the vodka and down the lav . ’ |
| 17 | By getting to grips with such details as whether tradesmen negotiated with the servants at the front door or down the area steps , how the speculative system which produced most of London 's houses between 1700 and 1830 worked between landlord , builder and tenant , how builders skimped on brickwork and laced their masonry with pieces of wood , how the proportioning of windows in façades and interior details were worked out , and how water supplies entered houses and were stored ( in decorative lead cisterns usually prominent in the basement kitchen ) , it gives an extraordinarily vivid sense of contact with the life that created London 's Georgian world of squares and terraces , all of which is heightened by effective quotations form the impressions of foreign visitors . |
| 18 | Out of the room and into the hallway , along the hallway and up to the door , out of the door and down the driveway … |
| 19 | She was supposed to do this , unless it was raining , by going out the front door and down the area steps , rather than through her grandmother 's bedroom . |
| 20 | I went out of the front door and down the area steps to the basement entrance . |
| 21 | We all left , going through the kitchen , out across the courtyard and down the trackway to the church . |
| 22 | Crouched low to the ground , Zambia fled across the yard and down the alley at the back . |
| 23 | It was right up to his mouth when Lamarr Dean nudged him , reaching out and pushing him a little , and the mescal spilled over the Apache 's chin and down the front of his vest . |
| 24 | If she strode out she would just about do it ; her office was only across the road and down the side-street . |
| 25 | If we start from the raw data values X 1 we can either proceed up the ladder of powers by squaring or cubing each number or down the ladder by taking square roots or reciprocals . |
| 26 | If a character does fall , a second successful I test is required ( Acrobatics +10 , Scale Sheer Surface +10 ) to avoid sliding off the path and down the scree-slope , taking D3 S 1 hits in the process and coming to rest 2D10 yards away . |
| 27 | The present occupant may say ‘ Oh well , I let old Mrs Smith walk through my garden and down the sideway when she needs to ’ and regard it as no more than a neighbours ' agreement . |
| 28 | With Fiver beside him , he led the way out of the ditch and down the slope . |
| 29 | The evidence that there had been an intruder was slight but all the same his senses tingled as he walked quietly through the hall , past the staircase and down the passage that led to Jacob 's bed-sitter . |
| 30 | I scrambled back down the ratlines , rushed to the cockpit and down the companionway hatch . |