Example sentences of "which [vb -s] down [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Inside , the room is richly decorated with a fine scrolled plaster overmantel , dated 1572 , and a little musicians ' gallery which looks down into the hall through a row of arches set high up in the cornice . |
| 5 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The hotel lies at the foot of a steep road which leads down through the trees from the main road . |
| 8 | Notable is the outstanding , densely-wooded Haleakala National Park which leads down to the sea . |
| 9 | Entering Biarritz by the coast road like this , you end by driving along the Avenue Édouard VII , which leads down into the centre of the town and sets the tone for a resort that was for a while Europe 's princeliest . |
| 10 | Over the footbridge , past Five Thorns Plantation , through Tank Wood and across the weir which splashes down into the River Poulter . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The river Trannon is a fast Welsh mountain stream , which flows down towards the Severn in Powys . |
| 13 | This small site is simply a three-sided plot which extends down to the road , its largest border merging into a vast hectarage of vines which have to be grafted in order to survive the threat of phylloxera . |
| 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 | People do n't take up what they are entitled to , which comes down to the way the government presents the information . |
| 16 | At the church , note the direction of route which proceeds down between the two lakes and then keeps half left towards a barn and which is to left of and below distant tower of Preston Capes church . |
| 17 | It is only a five minute walk to Taormina 's historic town centre and the cable-car which runs down to the beach below . |
| 18 | It began life , probably in the Severan period , resembling a winged-corridor villa , which had been terraced into the slope which runs down to the river ; it contained several heated rooms in the west wing and a water tank , possibly fed by local collection , in the front courtyard Later additions and alterations greatly improved and enlarged the building ; an ornamental fountain behind the house , from which came the famous Corbridge lion , was now linked to the aqueduct . |
| 19 | 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 . |