Example sentences of "farther down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More animals were grazing farther down the field . |
| 2 | Active inquiries were suspended and the file crept farther and farther down the heap until two years after Inez Glynn 's disappearance , it had drifted down to archives . |
| 3 | The highest , Park Mill , was situated on the lowest lake , but now remains in name alone ; however , the other two mills , farther down the valley , fared somewhat better . |
| 4 | He ignored Fiver , who was waiting farther down the run . |
| 5 | 111 trying to get back to its Norwegian base after an unsuccessful attack on the flying-boat base farther down the firth . |
| 6 | Another woman corrected him , saying she heard the coat was found a bit farther down the freight train track . |
| 7 | It was a fine , bright morning , so they wandered about the quay , watching the activity at Harlands and the dinghy sails farther down the lough . |
| 8 | Two of the overhead lights were on , one near her desk , another much farther down the room . |
| 9 | Farther down the coast we saw a huge kittiwake colony on an inland cliff and went to investigate . |
| 10 | Between Newbury and Reading a middle-aged man had pressed his knee against hers , and she had had to change compartments , doing her best to look unconcerned about it , as if she often heaved her suitcase down from the rack halfway between stations to try the view farther down the train . |
| 11 | And farther down the loch had waited the frigate that would escort it out to sea and stay with it , someone had told her , until it reached the safety of deep water . |
| 12 | He indicated a window farther down the line . |