Example sentences of "that [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had backed up against the patio , completely concealing the ornate wall and steps that led down onto the gravelled walks . |
| 2 | I hurried down steep Flower Hill , a flowerless road of grey terraced houses and shops that led down to the bridge and the weir . |
| 3 | Kit Hegarty moved swiftly around her large house in a quiet road that led down to the sea . |
| 4 | For at that moment , directly below the steps that led down to the Moebius Strip , the float of dummy Capellans was purring serenely by . |
| 5 | The boat house resembled a small chapel built into the sloping land that led down to the water 's edge , except that it was windowless and the bell in the tower no longer rang . |
| 6 | Eventually he was at the top of the slope that led down to the little towns of Streatley and Goring , separated , like their respective counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire , by the River Thames . |
| 7 | Luke Travis was standing at the top of the short flight of stone steps that led down to the garden . |
| 8 | She blinked as they emerged into blinding brightness and searing heat , and paused to fumble for her sunglasses before they descended the broad flight of steps that led down to the canal . |
| 9 | Then we came to a smashed yellow stone façade and a doorway that led down into a cellar . |
| 10 | Would he , seventeen years afterwards , be able to rediscover the mouth of the hole that led down into the Goughdale Mine ? |
| 11 | One that goes down on the floor ! |
| 12 | They 'd there 's a little back staircase that goes down to the kitchens — sorry , lad , galley ! |
| 13 | But not to go all the way to Saint-Palais ; rather , after eight miles , turn to the right , over a crest , along a very minor road that goes down to the hamlet and caves of Isturits . |
| 14 | All that water that goes th that goes down through the machines is all sent back to top |
| 15 | Erm imaginary line that goes down through the middle of a ball , yes , through there Jupiter . |
| 16 | The capes are famous for a confused and ugly swell , and peculiar lumps of wind that crash down from the coastal peaks of the Taurus Mountains . |
| 17 | Werner was in his late forties with a short , stocky physique , thinning brown hair and a neatly trimmed russet moustache that tapered down over the corners of his mouth . |
| 18 | On the ground their scudding shadows dappled the hills , hills that tumbled down to the ragged but level line , where the uplands ended and the deep gorge-like valleys began . |
| 19 | In the north can be found lush greenery standing out in the bottom of the valleys that carve down through the mountains , and fields of banana plantations standing against the backdrop of Mount Teide , the island 's dormant volcano . |
| 20 | A heron scraiked below the steep slabs of stone that chuted down into the sea . |
| 21 | ( WES ) ( ANNE ) Still to come on Central News … the round the world race that came down to the line . |
| 22 | I was determined it was at the burn that came down by the distillery at the edge of the town . |
| 23 | The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up . |
| 24 | The smells that came down from the higher ground might tell him something . |
| 25 | He could see by the dark light that came down from the night sky , a sky that glowed with vivid city lights , that on stands in nearby cages other eagles were listening to his story and staring at him silently . |
| 26 | Observers held their breath as the former Derry City and Shelbourne star took to the pitch for his first game but the thunderous greeting that cascaded down from the Windsor stands proved it was unnecessary caution . |
| 27 | They turned into the bottom of High Hill , and began to ascend it , leaning forward against the incline , and against the rain that drove down upon the umbrella . |
| 28 | The Gardon was so full of silt ( plus the occasional dead sheep or cow ) that looking down from the third floor of the Pont du Gard it looked more like a flow of molasses than a river . |
| 29 | Below the chin is a pouch that hangs down like a dewlap . |
| 30 | To the left of the steps , constructed from solid railway sleepers that drop down to the lawn , we have suggested a raised bed , this being filled with soil from the levelled area below . |