Example sentences of "down the [adj] length [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seconds later it was her turn as Travis 's large hand echoed her own movement , gliding silkily down the undulating length of her back , hip and thigh , sending frissons of pleasure dancing along her nerve-ends . |
| 2 | But she had her fair share of steel in her make-up , and she made a vow to herself which echoed eerily down the lonesome length of the lake . |
| 3 | Johnson 's account pauses at the Fall of Fiers , today called Foyers , a little more than halfway down the south-eastern length of the Loch . |
| 4 | Thorfinn , looking down the short length of the table to his wife 's cousin opposite , said , ‘ I heard about your wife . |
| 5 | The broad white scar against the deeply tanned skin was visible for all to see , running down the full length of the back from between the shoulder-blades . |
| 6 | By 10.30 he had gone down the full length of the corridor that ran past his office and he had then spent two and a half hours in H3 's laboratory . |
| 7 | Holding his young son in front of him in a sort of cruel parody of his wedding procession , he was humiliatingly marched publicly down the full length of the new Chandni Chowk . |
| 8 | Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street . |
| 9 | Summoning all her reserves , she swam forcefully down the whole length of the pool , and back again , gradually realising that she felt fitter than she had done for ages . |
| 10 | And reached over to slide a hand along her upper arm , then down the trim length of her back . |