Example sentences of "[vb -s] down from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big challenge came from everybody 's favourite Ginny Leng … she was riding Welton Romance and after racing around the 28 fence course was just two penalty points down from the leader … less than once fault in the showjumping … |
| 2 | A wall goes down from the road straight as a die to Ease Gill and a walk alongside leads in a few minutes to a small hole in the ground that opens into lengthy passages below : this is Short Drop Cave . |
| 3 | The sound of bird song drifts down from the trees , and butterflies flutter through the still early evening air . |
| 4 | A rod or tube , which drops down from the retainer on the kiteline , engages a spindle on the main frame and is locked by a wire split pin . |
| 5 | The road drops down from the col into the valley with an exhilarating suddenness and you are then in Arreau . |
| 6 | A very steep paths leads down from the summit . |
| 7 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 8 | The ‘ mouthpiece ’ and the ‘ horn ’ of the trumpet are both open , and a coil hangs down from the middle . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Or install some sort of screen , dividing panel , a blind that lets down from the ceiling , and even a stack of wine racks which would make a substantial and permanent wall in themselves . |
| 11 | Even here , some annual changes might be seen such as the amount of detritus that showers down from the ocean surface or the species of animal sheltering in the cave . |
| 12 | The new president is not expected to take office until March 1990 , or at best 1 January if Jose Sarney steps down from the presidency early . |
| 13 | At the point where the river Adige flows down from the north , bringing traffic from the north , from the Brenner pass and Bavaria and Austria , the city of Verona nestled in a pear-shaped bend in the river . |
| 14 | There is the Severn Trent version , mainly from reservoirs in Wales with added fluoride and there is a hidden source underground which rolls down from the Derbyshire Peak District . |
| 15 | The Khmer Rouge also comes down from the north through Preah Vihear to Kompong Thom , Kratie and Kompong Cham . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A small river runs into th sea at one side , but on the other there is a large expanse of grassland which runs down from the walls almost to the sea . |