Example sentences of "feet down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As soon as I dropped about 70 feet down towards the restaurant , via the tourist runway with its ridiculous little suburban garden fences bordering the steps , the wind ceased and I stepped out of the snow .
2 The alluvial soil on which the city stood was frozen all year round but thawed a few feet down during the summer .
3 ‘ Interesting , ’ said Corman , as he sat back in his chair and banged his feet down on the row of seats in front of him .
4 Of a dive that took her 1,250 feet down to the floor of the Pacific , Sylvia Earle said , ‘ The light was faint but , when my eyes adjusted , the world I saw was incredibly beautiful .
5 Slowly , he swung his feet down to the floor and sat up , experimentally flexing a pair of broad shoulders to ease an apparent tension .
6 Just below the glen the valley widens out into what is known as Rocky Valley , finally dropping off the map in rugged cliffs with a fall of some fifty or so feet down to the Atlantic Ocean .
7 From these thrashing heights they would then shin ninety feet down to the decks again on single frayed and rusting wires .
8 ‘ Thank you for bringing my feet down to the ground .
9 Here a great mass of molten rock , lying only a few thousand feet down in the earth 's crust , heats the rocks on the surface .
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