Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few times I sat down in the kitchen and almost told mum but changed my mind . |
| 2 | Aunt Bedelia and I were trying to watch Brookside , but it was an impossible mix , like tripe and onions with Bolognese sauce , so when Otley went down to the pub to see the lads I strolled down to the villa . |
| 3 | Beyond it fell a flight of stone steps which led down to the bank 's vault . |
| 4 | Rachaela left the house and went to the steps which led down to the beach . |
| 5 | Rousing herself , she glanced at the huge diamond solitaire on her left hand as if for reassurance , before picking up her luggage and heading for the steps which led down to the landing-stage and the vaporetti . |
| 6 | A big cat that has only recently gone extinct is the sabre-tooth ( " tiger " ) , named after its colossal canine teeth which jutted down from the upper jaw in the front of what must have been a terrifying gape . |
| 7 | We both reach the slanting , stepped strata which dip down round the summit , and above us , suddenly , came a lightening ; an orange disc , a blueness , a sudden bursting through and resolution of mountain form , a drama of cloudfall , a flotilla of peaks afloat on the vaporous sea . |
| 8 | Tamar turned along the track which led away from the village and the harvest fields , choosing instead the path through the thick woods which stretched down to the river bank . |
| 9 | Even along the coast in the marvellous new holiday centres , you will appreciate the deep blue seas and surprisingly uncrowded beaches , and wonder at the mountains and fragrant , herb-scented woods which tumble down to the shore . |
| 10 | As always they will go to businesses and organisations whose support for various aspects of the arts throughout 1992 has most impressed the ABSA judges who get down to the business of sifting through hundreds of entries early next month . |
| 11 | Running her tongue across her teeth she glared down at the object of her annoyance . |
| 12 | Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint |
| 13 | This is the area between the southern edge of the shopping area and the top of the bluffs which run down to the river . |
| 14 | After walking round the dining-room with my memories I sat down at the stone table . |
| 15 | Krakatoa is merely the first of a whole chain of active volcanoes which arc down through the Indonesian islands and round the Pacific to form what geologists call the Ring of Fire . |
| 16 | And then er the man that went round with all these knives and things he went down to the to the soo cray if you ken what that is . |
| 17 | When he had finished his chores he sat down at the table and copied out ‘ I am William Beech ’ over and over again until Tom , after much effort , finally persuaded him to go for a run and exercise Sammy . |
| 18 | I spent a lot of time discovering and browsing through the bookshops , and then reading on the lawns which led down to the river Cam from the backs of the colleges . |
| 19 | The screws who worked down on the block were absolute monsters . |
| 20 | During the first summer and autumn on the island , the English had built another sloop — thirty tons , clinker-hulled , two masted — from felled mahogany trees they dragged down from the forest ; they then fitted her with four barbaresque guns forged in the Italian style , transported from Europe by the Hopewell . |
| 21 | Three great stone pots contained geraniums which trailed down to the walls beneath them , softening the stern appearance of the house . |
| 22 | After crossing several fields I turned down to the right to follow a metalled road for a while until I reached the first real treat of the day , the Roman road . |
| 23 | The aircraft was an enemy , and the two men who climbed down onto the concrete were enemies , also , two of the nameless killers who had tried to ‘ break this island race ’ . |
| 24 | This gave him a view up one of the sidestreets which led down to the corner of the square . |
| 25 | Although Viking was lying quietly enough at the moment we could tell by the sudden gusts which hissed down from the high southern cliff that it was blowing quite hard on the weather side . |
| 26 | We drove up one of the steep hills which look down on the city and are encircled by walls and bastions ( built by the great sixteenth-century architect Michele Sanmichele ) to the house where I was going to live . |
| 27 | The sky was heavy with rain-filled clouds which pressed down on the dome of St Paul 's as if to deflate it , and the wharves and warehouses bordering the river cowered like black giants in the smoky gloom . |
| 28 | The sites they choose for nesting are the steep-sided inland gorges and cliffs formed by the rivers which rush down to the sea from the great ice-caps . |
| 29 | After a few moments she climbed down to the space station and ran off in the opposite direction to the shapechanger . |
| 30 | The women who came down to the river , no doubt fearful of looks themselves , avoided the barge . |