Example sentences of "and down from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trail of slow-moving headlights slides away and down from the arena like oozing lava snaking away from Mother . |
| 2 | It was bobbing up and down from the wash of a smart motorboat which had swept by , filled with haughty-looking Venetians with faces so medieval that they could have stepped straight from the history books . |
| 3 | It was a well-attended service , families coming both from the village and down from the hills . |
| 4 | Alerted by a grapevine of unparalleled efficiency to the presence of honkies with money , hitherto undiscovered talents began swarming in from the ghettos and down from the hills , bearing tape-recordings , even guitars , for impromptu auditions . |
| 5 | The mantri looked it up and down from the doorway without saying a word . |
| 6 | Downstairs a Disco will bring the tired and the weary in from the cattle drives and down from the cash tills. the Saloon will stay open late . |
| 7 | By using salvaged slates , it was possible to revise the roof of the garage to a ‘ cat-slide ’ form projecting out and down from the eaves of the main rear roof-slope at a slightly shallower pitch than this surface ( Plate 10 ) . |