Example sentences of "down [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Her fingers widened , sliding over the bunched muscles of his shoulders , down through the golden hair feathering his chest , across the ridged hardness of his stomach . |
| 32 | She stepped down through the great door knowing , from long experience of the signs , that she would find a well kept and tended church . |
| 33 | The story of a man compelled to search for a pure virgin , read one evening while his mother was mending stockings , left him ‘ haunted by spectres ’ whenever he was in the dark ; other stories drew him out to the churchyard , where , with his imagination overflowing , he would race up and down through the great avenue of elm trees , and act out among the docks , nettles and rank grass whatever he had been reading . |
| 34 | The famous ceiling , where the wooden angels flew face down through the dusty air above the crowd , was so high it could scarcely be seen in the gloom . |
| 35 | She had expected him to lead her around the side of the house towards the gravelled front courtyard ; instead he headed in the opposite direction , down through the wide grass path into the garden itself . |
| 36 | But when I mentioned that there was a legendary tunnel that ran from the battlements of Beaufort down through the sheer rock to the bottom of the Litani gorge , they leapt to their feet and bounded up one of the staircases . |
| 37 | ‘ I wish I were you , ’ Alexandra said , ‘ I wish I were a mouse , ’ and then , drawn inexorably , she leaned forward across the table and looked down through the closed window at her mother 's upturned face below . |
| 38 | Incineration is the most appropriate disposal method for many wastes which can be rendered harmless only by breaking them down through the controlled use of heat . |
| 39 | Directed by Alston , the screaming ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ turned off and shot down through the narrow side streets of the Arab quarter . |
| 40 | He had been pacing the room with slow majestic energy ending by peering down through the venetian blind at Madison below . |
| 41 | Decentralization from the inner parts of cities accelerated from about 1960 , affecting the largest places first and then spreading down through the urban hierarchy . |
| 42 | We leaned on the railing , and peered down through the littered lattice of cross-angled trees , their backs broken in their last attempt to scramble up the cliff . |
| 43 | Down through the drifting cloud he could sometimes see the hazy plan-view of a German airfield . |
| 44 | Sceptics will no doubt dismiss Tito 's order ( even though it was issued down through the full chain of command ) and the assurances given pursuant to it by the Yugoslav negotiators at Bleiburg as mere window-dressing , and they may be right . |
| 45 | The water was thick and brown and went down through the top end of Spaladale at a fearful rate . |
| 46 | It 's a short , sharp , you can see it there , you get to the top of it , get up to your roundabout , we hang a right , and the next , it 's a bit of a drag all the way up , you save coming , coming the other way it 's down hill , from just past The Bull , until you get to the , almost to that junction you turn off the top and you 're going up hill , just slowly , but cor , you get up to that , our junction , she drops down , we went straight down through the High Street , and we hung a right in the one way system , turn left , did n't get , quite get to Green Lane , turn left and up we come round the Green Lane , up and in the back way . |
| 47 | He pulled up and we could look down through the grey cloud-mist to the centre of the village where an old stone bridge and several houses were crumbling into the river . |
| 48 | Besides that , it leads down through the main generator rooms below . |
| 49 | there is a continuing struggle between accurate reflections on the distant surface of the river and increasingly rich golden browns as the eye sees down through the clear water in the foreground . |
| 50 | Her voice shivered down through the magic air around them ; her fingernails were a cap of spikes upon his head . |
| 51 | A bell tolled , the sign for Compline , and Lady Amelia led him down through the darkened cloister out across the grass to the church . |
| 52 | And cutting down through the rising rock , the Indus carries away from the Himalayan region five million tonnes of earthen debris every day . |
| 53 | Just lob one down through the open top of the cab , will you ? ’ |
| 54 | That these movements were still essentially Atlantic in their orientation , is shown by the great accumulations of syn-orogenic and post-orogenic sediments down through the Appalachian belt of the United States . |
| 55 | Two days later the sea had settled down after the prolonged gale and we headed north once more through the rock strewn channels and islands . |
| 56 | The whole affair , however , failed to gain the status of a diplomatic issue and started to calm down after the New Year holiday , leaving bad feeling between different groups of students . |
| 57 | So potent is the tradition of Czech cafe society , that most cafes were shut down after the Communist takeover in 1948 . |
| 58 | The monuments in Moscow to the revolutionary leaders which were taken down after the attempted coup last August have not been placed in the Museum of Totalitarian Art , as was stated . |
| 59 | Inevitably , the pace of legislative change slowed down after the hectic activity of the first Hundred Days . |
| 60 | This was The Who touching down after the conceptual splurge of ‘ Tommy ’ , knocking out faves like ‘ Magic Bus ’ and re-reading touchstone '50s songs in a deranged but affectionate way . |