Example sentences of "that [vb past] down to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hurried down steep Flower Hill , a flowerless road of grey terraced houses and shops that led down to the bridge and the weir . |
| 2 | Kit Hegarty moved swiftly around her large house in a quiet road that led down to the sea . |
| 3 | For at that moment , directly below the steps that led down to the Moebius Strip , the float of dummy Capellans was purring serenely by . |
| 4 | The boat house resembled a small chapel built into the sloping land that led down to the water 's edge , except that it was windowless and the bell in the tower no longer rang . |
| 5 | Eventually he was at the top of the slope that led down to the little towns of Streatley and Goring , separated , like their respective counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire , by the River Thames . |
| 6 | Luke Travis was standing at the top of the short flight of stone steps that led down to the garden . |
| 7 | She blinked as they emerged into blinding brightness and searing heat , and paused to fumble for her sunglasses before they descended the broad flight of steps that led down to the canal . |
| 8 | On the ground their scudding shadows dappled the hills , hills that tumbled down to the ragged but level line , where the uplands ended and the deep gorge-like valleys began . |
| 9 | ( WES ) ( ANNE ) Still to come on Central News … the round the world race that came down to the line . |
| 10 | The limestone scarps that rushed down to the sea and broke up into islands hung over the town , dripping green and yellow trees . |
| 11 | There was quite a gang of us that went down to the station — four Walshes and me . |
| 12 | ‘ The floorboards that went down to the water with Harry , they stayed under . |
| 13 | She liked wearing the cap ; it made her feel different , as did the long grey coat that went down to the top of her boots , because then she did not feel like Millie Forester , whose mother and father were dead and had no-one belonging to her , except the fat woman and the man with short legs , but more like a princess who , every now and again , donned strange clothes and went out among the common people , and was kind to them , and yet always remained a princess under the disguise . |
| 14 | ‘ For years we had been trying to lower and streamline the bonnets of front-engined cars and the mid-engined configuration allowed us to obtain an extremely low nose , deeply recessed between sculpted front wings that sloped down to the headlights , which were contained in a plexiglass fairing to continue the line . |
| 15 | Each house stood high on the hillside that sloped down to the lakeside road , with curling or zig-zagging driveways and thick modern stone walls . |
| 16 | As soon as she reached the open deer-park she ran , and she hardly paused until she came to the broad track that sloped down to the marsh , smiling and vivid green in the late afternoon sunshine . |
| 17 | She called again , moving out through the gate until she stood at the top of the lower garden that sloped down to the bay . |
| 18 | There , the forest was not so thick , and lay close to the bank that sloped down to the bogs by the riverside . |
| 19 | Then , turning to his right , he came to a stretch of well-trimmed lawn that sloped down to the river , the far bank of which was policed by a row of severely pollarded willow trees . |
| 20 | But from the sides of their mouths projected the glistening tusks of boars , and they were crowned with great , bristling manes of stiff hair that ran down to the base of their spines . |
| 21 | But , as she gazed around at the chintz sofas , and the French-provincial-style velvet-upholstered dining-room chairs — which she could see through a far open doorway — it occurred to Laura that maybe it was the only way to preserve such sumptuous furnishings on a shoreline likely to be damp and salty in the latter part of the year , while , outside the large windows , she could see automatic sprinklers drenching the fine green lawns that ran down to the beach . |
| 22 | Michele lifted out Luce 's bag , passed her the crutch , and , having handed over the car keys , led her through the crush of people and vehicles to the steps that ran down to the Grand Canal . |
| 23 | ‘ Let's go into the garden , ’ he said tersely , and a few moments later they were gliding along the path that wound down to the river 's edge , their way lit by a bright moon that stretched a blue path towards them across the water . |
| 24 | There were three hangars on the far side , buildings with curved roofs that extended down to the ground , camouflaged against cameras in the sky . |