Example sentences of "way down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made my way down towards the causeway . |
| 2 | A long white strip of cloth linked them all from hand a hand as they made their way down through the sleet and the open snowy fields . |
| 3 | They make their way down through the courtyard past the concierge 's busy-lizzies and geraniums in their cluster of terracotta and out onto the street where the Mercedes and driver are double-parked squeezing the traffic to an irascible trickle . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the heart of Trazior , as in every other hive on Necromunda , a vast tube of plasteel plunged all the way down through the crust of the planet . |
| 6 | But as we made our way down through the trees , I realized that even if I 'd been better at baling I could never have carried that load : my forehead hurt , my neck felt stiff and strained , and the pine-needles on the path , compressed and polished by thousands of feet , were as slippery as glass . |
| 7 | The snow was falling in earnest as we wound our way down through the trees , and the rich colours of the forest — the pine-green and henna-red bracken — were rapidly fading to ashen . |
| 8 | She talked almost all the way down through the forest : and then , when we were out in the open she started again , ‘ Do you see those trees over there ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Asking the way down with the glory of sight restored would have been stupid in the extreme , and I gave secret thanks for my ego salvation . |
| 11 | Oh about erm three feet deep I reckon they were , I mean to load up er eight hundred tonnes , which we average these hoppers out at , er er we were getting a good soil we 'd load up eight hundred tonne in an hour and a half to two hours , between hour and a half to two hours we 'd be loaded , that 's all depend on what you was dredging , you might be interested in and , and go quicker , if you were dredging greenfly that 's be alright you 'd , if you dredged peat well that hopper would be full but it would n't be half lo it 'd be half loaded you see , be half way down to the plimsoll mark . |
| 12 | He could n't have walked all the way down to the reach from his comfortless presbytery simply to talk about Martha 's name . |
| 13 | In despair , I scrambled all the way down to the gully that falls directly from the col and tried to climb it quickly before the sun got up . |
| 14 | So I went all the way down to the door slightly irritated , and what did I see ? |
| 15 | Still holding the note-book , he crawled out of the hide and made his way down to the edge of the bigger of the two pools . |
| 16 | The birds on Fardine 's shoulders manoeuvred their way down to the edge of the can where they sat on its rim , greedily pecking at the grains . |
| 17 | With luck , with extreme luck , the curtain would n't go all the way down to the river 's bed . |
| 18 | Somehow , though , we did feel better as we filed out at the end of the service and made our way down to the river . |
| 19 | Later in the evening , with our two Friends still waiting opposite the hotel , we slipped out by a back door and made our way down to the river . |
| 20 | Keeping to back lanes we made our way down to the river . |
| 21 | Laughing and joking , they left their bags there and made their way down to the tap room where the landlord 's wife served them huge fish pies , the crust , golden and crisp , hiding a savoury sauce which dulled the flavour of the rancid fish . |
| 22 | They were stopped at a sentry post to have passes checked and moved on through the wool of the fog , traffic sounds muted , an anguished cry from the Thames as a ship sounded its foghorn on the way down to the sea . |
| 23 | on the way down to the villa |
| 24 | With Nurse 's letter folded in his hand , he ran all the way down to the infants ' school on the corner before stopping to catch his breath . |
| 25 | By the beginning of December , it was possible to ski all the way down to the Coire Cas carpark . |
| 26 | ‘ Make yer way down to the station , ’ he said . |
| 27 | I was talking to this other lad across the road — we were due to go off duty at two and we were just hanging about before making our way down to the station — there was no relief for us on that shift . |
| 28 | As design technology filters its way down to the kitchen canopy world and standards of hygiene improve , how will we resp ; ond ? |
| 29 | They climbed in at the front and gradually worked their way down to the back . |
| 30 | More than one of them remarked on how pleasant it was to return to base in the early hours , cold , cramped and tired out , to see our welcoming smiles as they called in at the office on their way down to the Mess , even though they had probably only called in to tear us off a strip for having given them a rotten weather forecast . |