Example sentences of "down near the " in BNC.

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1 Wakefield soon took the lead for the first time when Conway 's towering kick bounced over the line for Mason to touch down near the posts .
2 Black shiny mounds of tarpaulins were weighed down near the ground by rows of large stones .
3 They simply drove into Benghazi , headlamps blazing , and parked down near the waterfront .
4 But they stayed the longest in Baldersdale , apart from me of course , and eventually retired down to Hunderthwaite , down near the main road .
5 The JD 's neck has exactly the same depth , but it 's been dressed away a touch more in the shoulders to give a more sharply peaked V , especially down near the nut .
6 Another came down near the Leprosy Hospital , St. Bartholomew 's , and pieces of wreckage from these two aircraft are still currently on display in the Malta War Museum .
7 I sat down near the representative from Belgium .
8 He must find Martin — he would be down near the chicken run — he must speak to someone , touch someone 's hand , hear someone 's voice .
9 He lives down near the bottom of Wind Street , got a shop he has , a well-to-do sort of man , better off than me at any rate . ’
10 ‘ Let's have something to eat , William , then afterwards I 'll go and see Lewis , I expect he still lives down near the docks . ’
11 The largest single shipload so far discovered were the 524 Chinese passengers on the East Wood which had to call for help when it broke down near the Marshall Islands earlier this year .
12 To the right of the two churches , down near the water , is the grotto itself , a humbler place though naturally not spared the apparatus of the cult : a statue of the Virgin , an altar , seats , a small and poignant row of crutches that have been discarded and now hang against the rock wall .
13 ‘ And first of all , I 'm going to climb through the window , ’ she said and reached for a stack of sacking which had been thrown down near the wall and which , piled carefully , might enable her to reach the sill .
14 Normally , if you want nothing more than a passage anchorage , Dale , down near the entrance , will serve very well , but we felt Neyland merited a first visit , and thanks to going there we had this early morning enchantment of seeing ships , great and small , going about their work .
15 So once Posi had drifted the ship down near the surface , I prepared myself for my descent — the cylinder in a carry-net slung over one shoulder , a hand raised to hold on to my hairpiece .
16 The man put his umbrella down near the door , and took out a cigarette .
17 ‘ The villages down near the river have been almost untouched , but many farms in the hills are now deserted where their people have fled the grypesh and the Giants .
18 I 've known when they used to deal with the flake , what they call the Flake Mill , that 's er down at erm Eagle Mill down near the lock gates when they were making this here which were like corn flakes for the , for the animals and and they were dropped like this , be nice and warm and
19 ‘ He was seen in a tavern down near the riverside .
20 He 's … he 's in the garden with Marise , down near the fern rockery .
21 I sat down near the fire and looked around me .
22 If they 're thigh-high the stockmarket , too , will be up ; long , and share prices will also be down near the floor .
23 So it was indeed a classic nightmare where I dreamt that I was the only person searching for the child , and the only person who saw that this vast Argosy was down near the coastline , and I landed in a most difficult position near the aircraft and found nobody else about .
24 The other came down near the village of Upper Heyford , killing its two crew members .
25 It was down near the centre of the island down past er mill dam .
26 I mean normally er this morning for instance , normally I park on the big car park down near the the river there ,
27 Erm which one are we on number one down near the courtyard .
28 Yes , well I mean I 'm particularly interested for people to come along to the Cowley Centre stall , er and we also sell on the Cowley Road at our plant nursery which one of the other groups runs down near the east Oxford Health Centre .
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