Example sentences of "a [noun] [v-ing] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A roadside gate opposite admits to a field sloping down to the river ( no path ; no right of way so seek permission to visit ) where , in a wild and impressive setting , the Dee , here flowing in a deep ravine , leaps in a waterfall into a deep pool beneath a high canopy of trees . |
| 2 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 3 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 4 | Erm I 've got a girl sitting down in the foyer . |
| 5 | An easy cart track heads north and in five minutes arrives at Dry Laithe Cave , commonly known as Calf Holes , where a stream coming down on the right disappears in a rash of rocks and passes into a cave under the track . |
| 6 | " Hazel , " said Speedwell suddenly , " there 's a rabbit coming down from the warren . |
| 7 | On our way upstairs we met a gentleman coming down in the dark . |
| 8 | I could hear their feet on the stairs , then a voice shouting down to the blind man in the road outside : ‘ Pew ! |
| 9 | Attached to it was a sash cord , linked to a rope hanging down to the track . |
| 10 | A little later we saw another cow and then through my glasses I picked up a bull lying down in the distance . |
| 11 | Similarly , in 1469 he speaks of the rising against Edward IV as a whirlwind coming down from the North ( 14 , pp.531 , 542 ) . |
| 12 | He called his future domicile Belmont , for it stood on the high ground , with a view sweeping down through the coconut palms to the shore where he had first landed that night he took possession . |
| 13 | You 're in the nearside lane and you 're going uphill and er you 're trunking away quite nicely , you see a guy coming down in the fast lane , down the hill getting a bit of a roll on , fully laden , and he gets halfway up the hill , he runs out of steam and he 's looking for a hole to get into . |
| 14 | We give here a brief sample both of the original [ 10 ] and of Burgess 's Class 1 version [ 11 ] : [ 10 ] Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo … |
| 15 | Although Peru in 1990 probably bore little resemblance to the place described circa 1948 in our tomes , we were immediately obsessed with an area sloping down to the Amazon Basin to the east of the Andes . |