Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The descent to the south passes the relics of an abandoned lead mine and arrives at Clouds Gill to join the old mine road which goes down past the limekilns to The Street and the waiting car . |
| 2 | All that water that goes th that goes down through the machines is all sent back to top |
| 3 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 4 | They 'd there 's a little back staircase that goes down to the kitchens — sorry , lad , galley ! |
| 5 | The sound of bird song drifts down from the trees , and butterflies flutter through the still early evening air . |
| 6 | He looks down into the gardens hidden everywhere behind the patched and crumbling walls . |
| 7 | Furthermore , water running down the outside of the Pertex helps to draw out some of the water that penetrated through to the Parameta.a The rest stays there and evaporates in the wind or trickles down between the layers . |
| 8 | ‘ Let's have something to eat , William , then afterwards I 'll go and see Lewis , I expect he still lives down near the docks . ’ |
| 9 | Rain water , which is a very weak acid , passes down through the joints , slowly dissolving the rocks and so making the joints wider . |
| 10 | A track , starting close to Froggatt Pinnacle , leads down through the birchwoods , between moss-clad boulders and crackling bracken , to emerge on the main road near the Chequers . |
| 11 | The hotel lies at the foot of a steep road which leads down through the trees from the main road . |
| 12 | ‘ That leads down to the cisterns , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The grounds lie at the foot of the south Antrim hills , and the land fronting the main buildings slopes down to the shores of Belfast Lough . |
| 14 | The grounds lie at the foot of the south Antrim hills , and the land fronting the main buildings slopes down to the shores of Belfast Lough . |
| 15 | It 'd be knackered by the time it gets down to the Cocks Terry , from here . |
| 16 | For every year at midwinter the sun grows weak and pale , and he sinks down into the marshes to spend the long winter night there , and Mokosh , the old witch , his foster-mother , nurses him until he is strong again , with herbs and spells and incantations . |
| 17 | Often , especially in autumn , the sky is streaked with the incandescent brilliance of oranges reds and gold as an enormous fiery ball sinks down behind the wolds . |
| 18 | Nearing the Sandaig River , which rushes down from the mountains and passes beneath the road to enter the Sound , gated forest roads lead down to the beach where Gavin Maxwell had a cottage he called Camusfearna and wrote his world best-seller about his life there with the sea otters he admitted to his home as companions . |
| 19 | In practice this boils down to the governments being saddled with the bulk of the foreign hard currency debts , while it is private individuals in those same countries who hold most of the hard-currency assets . |
| 20 | The lower side of the film is softened and , as the solvent evaporates , the film settles down into the irregularities of the etched face and produces the replica . |
| 21 | GUIL moves down to the footlights and turns . ) |
| 22 | McDunn 's mouth twists down at the edges ; he sucks through his teeth , and for some reason I feel encouraged . |
| 23 | ‘ I imagine we still have the conveyancing documents down among the cobwebs somewhere … ’ |
| 24 | Once a week a ten-minute helicopter flight ( £20 ) soars over the harbour , heads out to sea to hover over inviting beaches and then on its return trip swoops down between the mountains , close to the hang-gliders . |
| 25 | The Headless Horseman appears on the carriage and swoops down on the adventurers . |
| 26 | There , it percolates down through the rocks into aquifers ( underground water reserves ) , or flows as surface rivers back into the sea , propelled by the Earth 's gravity . |
| 27 | Cinderella , oh I do n't know when that one 's coming down if it comes down to the pictures we 'll go and watch it , I 'll promise you that , right , who 's nicked my cup ? |
| 28 | When knitting your samples did you notice that although the back bed was making the pattern , the design actually shows on the work facing you as it comes down between the beds ? |
| 29 | Even the railway has charm as it curves on a fine viaduct where the River Finnan comes down from the mountains to enter Loch Shiel , a long and narrow sheet of water passing through high portals to reach green pastures after a serpentine course of seventeen miles . |
| 30 | ( He leaps up in the air and comes down in the 'splits " position . |