Example sentences of "down a steep " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I go down a steep or longish hill , braking on the engine , by the time I 've reached the bottom the engine seems to be suffering from fuel starvation and consequently refuses to go up the other side . |
| 2 | Her sister Gabrielle Garsin , who had lived with Eugenia and the family when Dedo was a child , had committed suicide that year by throwing herself down a steep flight of stairs . |
| 3 | This descends alongside the ridge wall over High Pike and Low Pike and then diverges due south in a direct line down a steep slope to Bruntscar . |
| 4 | After some 30 minutes of driving towards the jagged mass of the Troodos Range , we turn and plunge down a steep trail to a river bank . |
| 5 | ‘ The biggest spanking you 've ever had , ’ she answered promptly , coming down to earth ; and they proceeded down a steep zigzag path to the shore . |
| 6 | FORTY-FIVE people were killed last night when an excursion coach careered off a Spanish motorway and plunged down a steep embankment . |
| 7 | And got heavier as they left the small station and straggled down a steep , cinder path . |
| 8 | In fact , they have so much power behind that they find going downhill awkward , and sometimes , in flight down a steep place , they may actually go head over heels . |
| 9 | Helpless other than in the firm clasp of their hands , she was all exhilaration ; sweeping , it seemed , down a steep cylinder of ice and air . |
| 10 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 11 | Leyshon and Stokle suffered horrific injuries when they were trapped in a burning car that plunged down a steep hillside near Birdlip in Gloucestershire in November two years ago . |