Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hotel was n't really big enough for her to get confused as she checked up whether to turn left or right down the passage . |
| 2 | Each evening the quayside would be crowded with holidaymakers who made a point of going to watch the long procession of over 100 boats , their lights twinkling as dusk began to fall , pass slowly and majestically down the harbour and out to sea . |
| 3 | With time , the cells proceed further and further down the landscape and become more and more distant from each other , reflecting different patterns of gene activity . |
| 4 | The last two guides showed me how it was done , climbing quickly and fearlessly down the face . |
| 5 | The Princes will rue the fact that they passed up a wonderful chance to finish off the match on the 18th , for they were one up on that tee from which both the sons hit long and straight down the fairway . |
| 6 | eg. ( SELF , UP , DOWN ) would cause the model to first look at the user who caused the last transition for a possible match , followed by a search up the user tree and then down the tree . |
| 7 | Then brush your hands , up the arms , front and back , across the shoulders , down the chest ( avoiding the nipples if you are a woman ) and then down the back of the neck to the upper back . |
| 8 | Items of trade destined for southern Germany now had to be transported across the Corridor and then down the length of Germany . |
| 9 | Blackberry , alert and intelligent , looking first up and then down the ditch before he crossed it . |
| 10 | At one end of the stableyard the walls of the kitchen garden joined the backs of the loose boxes — an archway crowned by a belfry was built across the carriage-way leading out of the yard to the great swirl of gravel in front of the house , and onwards down the avenue . |
| 11 | Active inquiries were suspended and the file crept farther and farther down the heap until two years after Inez Glynn 's disappearance , it had drifted down to archives . |
| 12 | And farther down the loch had waited the frigate that would escort it out to sea and stay with it , someone had told her , until it reached the safety of deep water . |
| 13 | Thankfully our landing was cushioned by the deep new snow and we came to a rest 100 metres lower , badly bruised and half strangled by the rope , but somehow down the couloir in one piece . |
| 14 | Going on to the last lap Dunlop had matters well in hand but further down the field behind McCallen there was drama when Alan Patterson , who had been in third place and going well , suddenly shot through the final bend and took the wrong road for the second time today losing his chance of a place . |
| 15 | ‘ I know that PCs call them spooks , niggers and sooties , but deep down the majority of PCs are n't really against them , although there are some who really hate them and will go out of their way to get them . |
| 16 | Belgium is the third highest consumer of beef in the EEC ( nearly 24kg per capita ) but well down the production list at 336,000 tonnes per annum . |