Example sentences of "its way down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two cottages here above the beck which passes the church on its way down to the old woollen mill . |
| 2 | Having been trapped , and being so heavy , it will work its way down to the absolute bottom of wherever it is caught . |
| 3 | As design technology filters its way down to the kitchen canopy world and standards of hygiene improve , how will we resp ; ond ? |
| 4 | When a wind-blown spore — which now can be called pollen — lands on an egg-bearing cone , it germinates , not into a filmy thallus for which there is now no need , but into a long tube which burrows its way down into the female cone . |
| 5 | The delirious atmosphere hushed slightly as their column of official jeeps snaked its way down into the Rante . |
| 6 | EXCEPT where rocks are heavily cracked or fissured , it usually takes many years for water to find its way down through the soil and the unsaturated zone to the saturated zone of an aquifer . |
| 7 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |
| 8 | The lakes huddled in the valleys — Lakes Grey , Nordensköld and Pehoé — were speckled with small icebergs , and at the end of Lake Grey we spied the white winding-sheet of a glacier edging its way down from the ice-cap . |