Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] down [prep] the river " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magnificent Georgian houses are clustered together while their large and colourful gardens sweep down to the river . |
| 2 | In the side-streets running down towards the river theatregoers are looking for parking-spaces , but on the pavements there 's no one but a few belated bureaucrats like myself , heading for trains and Tubes . |
| 3 | It is said to be an overcoat warmer in the valley , but shelter from the north is no compensation for the deep-freeze effect as the frosts drain down to the river . |
| 4 | He found the stews around the riverside as busy as an overturned ant heap in summer as boatmen , sailors and fishermen flocked down to the river bank to watch the ice thaw . |
| 5 | Sheep browsed on the foothills sweeping down to the river . |
| 6 | One wonders whether he observed this on his visits to Hailing as the houses of the villagers spread down to the river near the Palace , an ideal place for the collecting of rushes . |
| 7 | Mervyn , I suggest you , Eric and the rest of the men go down to the river . |
| 8 | Women came down to the river in groups to wash clothes and pots . |
| 9 | It is a rambling Tudor house run by John and Margaret Parker , whose breakfast room and drawing room look out over a wonderful walled garden , beyond which fields of grazing cows stretch down to the river . |