Example sentences of "and down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a very long journey right across the Atlas mountains and down to the edge of the desert . |
| 2 | I said nothing , but turned away and walked as quickly as I could towards the stairs and down to the student canteen in the basement . |
| 3 | The Sergeant came barging into the Nissen hut , bawling out , ‘ Right , you bloody lot , if you have any homes to go to , get out of those pits and down to the orderly room , sharpish , or you wo n't get a bloody pass . ’ |
| 4 | Wing Commander Douglas Farquhar looked out of his cockpit window and down to the left . |
| 5 | Take 'em along Witchball Street , Tom , and down to the quay that way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We wandered up and down to the inadequate refreshment kiosk , drinking soda and eating buns . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This agreed , Christine and Mary ran out and down to the bottom of the long garden where the apple-tree stood . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The top of the anticline has been worn away , down to the Millstone Grit in some places and down to the Carboniferous Limestone in others . |
| 12 | They come in here for one orange juice and they 're up and down to the loos five times in one night with different blokes . ’ |
| 13 | The skeleton of the body took shape and when complete would be lifted on to rollers , rolled along the timber , out through the double doors and down to the waiting chassis in the yard by means of skids . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It passed under the canal and ran parallel to the Haversham Bank and down to the river . |
| 16 | Currency exchange negotiations for everyone on the ‘ open ’ market were conducted between the team 's administrator , John Brown , and the hotel 's elderly porter in a lift that went constantly up and down to the top floor until they were concluded . |
| 17 | Corbett nodded and followed both the envoy and his strange companion out of the room and down to the main hall of the castle . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The biggest surprise here is that the TBM 700 seems to shrink into a much smaller and lighter aircraft when flown below ninety knots and down to the gear-down/flaps-down 61-knot stall speed . |
| 20 | It was surely going to be a doddle , taking up the slabs , using part of the profile of the old pond to define the layout of the new , then some easy digging , smoothing , measuring and down to the aquatic shop for a liner . |
| 21 | She swam away and down to the ocean bed with him , laughing . |
| 22 | Beyond the chapel and down to the right is the Fort of São Tiago , named after the patron saint of Funchal . |
| 23 | Past Reid 's along Estrada Monumental , going out of Funchal , and down to the left is the lido complex . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Quinn was forced into the back seat and down to the floor , then covered with a blanket . |
| 26 | He wanted to get away from the imagination , away from the vague glamour of medieval things , from reverence for tradition , from mysticism , enthusiasm and gloire ; away from all private visionary insights and down to the plain , measurable , publicly verifiable facts ; and this desire was central to his whole mission as a philosopher and reformer . |
| 27 | Its usual course flows from above the lorry park , round the trees and down to the lower bridge which marks its normal width . |
| 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 | I ran to the stairs , and down to the basement , to the empty store room . |
| 30 | Fortified for a final fight , we stuffed everything into our sacks and set off on the laborious slog back up Coire Raibeirt for a buffeted race against darkness over the plateau and down to the vast , eerily deserted car park . |