Example sentences of "and down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quinn was forced into the back seat and down to the floor , then covered with a blanket . |
| 2 | As soon as the chicks are mobile , she leads them away from the nest and down to the shore . |
| 3 | He walked on past the house to the steps and down to the shore . |
| 4 | Martin was standing at the furthermost edge of the terrace , looking over the gardens and down to the sea . |
| 5 | She swam away and down to the ocean bed with him , laughing . |
| 6 | They moved along passages and down to the cabin deck . |
| 7 | It was a very long journey right across the Atlas mountains and down to the edge of the desert . |
| 8 | There followed three weeks during which , in Coleridge 's comical retelling of events , Walsh displayed ‘ truly Indian perseverance ’ in tracking the poets on their daily excursions into the hills and down to the beach at Kilve . |
| 9 | Concerned at the way neither she nor her friends wore ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes ( too many frills , too much lace , all up to the neck and down to the ankles , they said ) Laura asked them to come up with suggestions for the sort of outfits they would like to wear . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course , ’ he breathed and , turning round , went back past the chapel and down to the lakeside . |
| 11 | We handed in our papers , and I do not think a more relieved set of students or an Invigilator ever rushed for the lift and down to the shelter . |
| 12 | and down to the station , used to come from the , from the station |
| 13 | For reply Robyn ran her hands instinctively across his chest , down and down to the waist of his jeans , further to his inner thigh , to the place where his need was strongest . |
| 14 | Take 'em along Witchball Street , Tom , and down to the quay that way . |
| 15 | He dipped the headlights and the far end of the tunnel seemed to leap towards us , bouncing up and down to the thump of our tyres on the sleepers . |
| 16 | They drove us as far as the mud roads would allow in the royal land-rover , and down to the bay where a pearl-oyster hatchery was being tried for the first time ; and at night there were more festivities , and endless delectable maidens vying for our attentions … |
| 17 | The Empire expanded across a broad band of territory running from the Baltic to the Black Sea , and down to the Caucasus . |
| 18 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 19 | I ran to the stairs , and down to the basement , to the empty store room . |
| 20 | It passed under the canal and ran parallel to the Haversham Bank and down to the river . |
| 21 | But even here the story does not end , for after fifteen or twenty years , the urge to breed and migrate once again comes upon them and down to the river mouths they proceed , slithering over wet meadows by night until they reach the greater river , lying up by day in damp holes , enough water remaining in their gills to enable them to breath . |
| 22 | It keeps the whole roof in position and transmits its weight , and the considerable windloadings it is subjected to , through the walls and down to the foundations . |
| 23 | This agreed , Christine and Mary ran out and down to the bottom of the long garden where the apple-tree stood . |
| 24 | France too possessed a very efficient cabinet noir , and down to the fall of the Duc de Choiseul in 1770 most of her Foreign Ministers also held the post of Surintendant-Général des Postes , thus maintaining effective control over so valuable an auxiliary . |
| 25 | Snail tracks of peach juice ran from the heel of his hand , over his chest and down to the hollow of his belly . |
| 26 | This pleasant hotel is built on a slight rise , and has excellent views of the mountains behind it and down to the village in front . |
| 27 | I did a combined cycle and hiking day ; rode over the hill to Wainuiomata and down to the Rimutaka Forest Park , then tramped through the bush and up a long ridge to the top of Mount McKerrow . |
| 28 | There is only one road over the mountains and down to the desert , so it was stupid to assume — as I had done , without really thinking about it — that we should not see them again . |
| 29 | His knee jerked up and down to the clacking of the metronome on the piano lid . |
| 30 | In the damp dawn mist he radiated green light , tendrils of luminescence which reached from the points of his body into the canopy , and down to the earth . |