Example sentences of "[vb -s] down to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 2 | Roy , 37 , even leaves Janette in the dead of night and goes down to the bar hoping to catch a glimpse of his beloved spirit . |
| 3 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 4 | Lady Macduff goes down to the meadow |
| 5 | Music 24 songs and nothin' to hear Geoff Dyer goes down to the Springsteen river , and finds that it 's dry |
| 6 | Nearing the narrows of the loch where the ferry operated , the road climbs a long incline through a forest , emerging in open country and here a branch , formerly the main road , goes down to the hotel and other buildings grouped forlornly around the old ferry pier : it is always sad to see an enterprise that has served its purpose well and has now had its day . |
| 7 | After a further mile towards Chapel-le-Dale , a track turns off the road to the left and goes down to the beck in the valley bottom , arriving at a section roofed by a natural arch of considerable length . |
| 8 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 9 | Cross the road and take path going north-north-east which then bears left to Stoke Ridge and goes down to the bend in the road at Stoke Pero . |
| 10 | It goes down to the throat with redness and swelling , enlarged tonsils , hot head , congested face , heavy limbs , a gradual onset . |
| 11 | But not to go all the way to Saint-Palais ; rather , after eight miles , turn to the right , over a crest , along a very minor road that goes down to the hamlet and caves of Isturits . |
| 12 | and she , he , she goes down to the abortion centre right after and he dies ! |
| 13 | Between the admirable houses in the so-called Quartier de la Barre , which goes down to the harbour mouth , and the sandy beach , a dike has been built up , twelve or fifteen feet high , to protect the town from the waves . |
| 14 | They 'd there 's a little back staircase that goes down to the kitchens — sorry , lad , galley ! |
| 15 | Local legend states that when it hears the church clock strike twelve it goes down to the River Avon to drink . |
| 16 | From here it follows the route of the prehistoric Sewstern Lane and drops down to the Grantham Canal . |
| 17 | that passes down to the south west sir , yes . |
| 18 | Having got to the top , it flutters down to the base of another tree and starts all over again . |
| 19 | This cobbled route is still a joy to follow ; the top half of it , as it curves down to the church and the river , lined with sober houses built from the local cocoa-coloured stone and dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — datable precisely in some cases from the inscribed lintel stones ; then the church , seventeenth-century and disappointingly dull ; the old bridge over the Nive , which is the place to look up — and downstream , at the houses built along the banks with their projecting wooden galleries ; and then on towards the Porte d'Espagne , past the shops and more very decent old houses . |
| 20 | Notable is the outstanding , densely-wooded Haleakala National Park which leads down to the sea . |
| 21 | Descent : Traverse leftwards until easy ground leads down to the road . |
| 22 | ‘ That leads down to the cisterns , ’ he said . |
| 23 | After further tunnels comes Tellsplatte , where parking is possible , and a path leads down to the Tell chapel , with its frescoes depicting the Tell story , near the lake steamer quay . |
| 24 | That reaches down to the floor as I understand it . |
| 25 | In a bureaucracy such as a pollution control agency , the organizing principle is administrative efficiency — ‘ an orientation to the expeditious attainment of the given objectives ’ ( Blau , 1963 : 264 ) — which reaches down to the field officer in the form of a number of imperatives about getting the job done in certain ways that have profound implications for his exercise of discretion . |
| 26 | ‘ A sweeping white beach fringed with date palms and oleanders … a sea so blue , you 'll think it was made in Heaven … luxury five-star accommodation , with a bar that reaches down to the water 's edge , and an internationally-famed restaurant where the food is as sensational as the setting … |
| 27 | A quaint old-world village slopes down to the water , over green downs , quarried like some gigantic rabbit burrow , with the stone workings of seven hundred years ’ . |
| 28 | It 's open grass with not much cover and it slopes down to the pond and the stream which bisect the two parts of the battle area . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |