Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] river " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stuart Pascoe lived in a spacious house not far from Canterbury Cathedral with a garden that swung down to a river . |
| 2 | The track had , he recalled , two branches , separating as it dropped from the heathy ridge that looked down upon the river . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The smell that floated back from the river with its docks and factories was unpleasant , like her life at present . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Precipitation over the ocean is low , in volume probably exceeded five or six times by the fresh water that pours in from the rivers ( Rudels , 1987 ) , locally diluting the surface layer . |