Example sentences of "[noun sg] down [prep] [art] river " in BNC.
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| 1 | Art has served his country town well this country town well , he lived he all his life all in a small cottage down by the river . |
| 2 | It was over six weeks since she had come to work here , and six weeks to the day since his kiss and their painfully honest talk down by the river beneath the moonlight . |
| 3 | It 's laughable , afraid of a storm but brave enough to wait in the dark down by the river and bash your friend over the head . |
| 4 | The new factory was built on the far side of the property , leaving Barlaston surveying a fine sweep of parkland down to a river widened to look like a lake . |
| 5 | He made good speed down to the river , and then there was a path to aid him as far as the mill . |
| 6 | The party was held at his flat which was a loft in a warehouse down by the river in Shad Thames on a wharf right next to Tower Bridge I 'd never seen anywhere like it . |
| 7 | He invites Howard to lunch one day ( sandwiches , in the garden of a pub down by the river , at a battered green table with a hole in the middle for an umbrella ) . |
| 8 | Across the whole end of the building , stretching from the ceiling down into the river , was a curtain of linked metal like thick over-sized chicken wire , presumably originally installed to keep thieves away from any boat in the dock . |
| 9 | Fancy a run down to the river Orne to collect some water ? ’ |
| 10 | That 's right it 's in the bott the trees hanging the branch is hanging right down to the river and the moorhen 's standing on it . |
| 11 | ‘ He recovered after that business down by the river ? |
| 12 | He had seen that look on the faces of mother ducks when they took their little flock down to the river for the first time . |
| 13 | How often she and Frank had spent the day down by the river , fishing for the cunning trout , or lazing in the damp grass , talking . |
| 14 | At the same time a determined police search for Terry Place began in the area down by the river . |
| 15 | He did have red hair and he had certainly been interested in the whole area down by the river walk . |
| 16 | Dusk was just falling as they turned into the parking area down by the river . |
| 17 | Fusil said : ‘ Their feet will get wet in the mud and the paths are dangerous because it is slippery and there is a steep drop down to the river . ’ |
| 18 | As the crews launched their rafts at Hay-on Wye on Saturday , ahead lay a 100-mile long journey down to the river to Chepstow . |
| 19 | Roxie said suddenly , ‘ There 's a tunnel down by the river . |
| 20 | The bulk of the houses were grouped around the Church , along what is now the High St. and extended from the Plough to Hall House ( or Bourne 's ) , then from there in a line down to the river with Halling House or the Old Palace prominent by the Church . |
| 21 | She left the dining room that November morning and took the dogs for a walk down by the river . |
| 22 | They were a couple of travelling hedgers and ditchers who were currently working at Bakers Farm down by the river . |
| 23 | Corridors , ante-rooms , kitchen , a flue still intact , a corner of the verandah and traces of the garden path down to the river . |
| 24 | With luck , with extreme luck , the curtain would n't go all the way down to the river 's bed . |
| 25 | Somehow , though , we did feel better as we filed out at the end of the service and made our way down to the river . |
| 26 | Later in the evening , with our two Friends still waiting opposite the hotel , we slipped out by a back door and made our way down to the river . |
| 27 | Keeping to back lanes we made our way down to the river . |
| 28 | There is still the same straggle of dwellings fronting the street down to the river , all mellowed with antiquity ; there is still the same atmosphere of undisturbed tranquillity . |
| 29 | The cordoned area was much bigger than they had realised , for several square yards of the level ground on top had subsided into ominous , shallow holes , here and there breaking the turf , and the slope down to the river path , once dropping gradually a matter of fifteen feet or so , now sagged in red rolls of soil and grass . |