Example sentences of "[v-ing] down [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Screams rang out from the galleries , where spectators had been gazing down instead of hiding . |
| 2 | He stood for a minute or so gazing down expressionlessly at the pale , bloodless face of the Prophet . |
| 3 | Cixi , partnered by Jonothan Lower , was hampered and fell , bringing down both Elegant Friend ( Paul Smith Eccles ) and Stratford Lady ( Steve Williams ) . |
| 4 | He never knew what these special things were and tried to find out by sneaking down there at night , but the shed door was always locked . |
| 5 | Me husband thinks she 's goin' down fast . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're goin' down there ? ’ |
| 7 | I think perhaps if you could have arranged her so that er this foot somehow was resting down here , well it might have been better . |
| 8 | The statues came tumbling down all over the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | ’ Just touching down briefly , scouting for work ’ . |
| 10 | In any case , sparks were riding the breeze and touching down far across the river in hidden gardens and remote rickyards . |
| 11 | When this is done , the combination of the lift loss and the extra drag result in the glider sinking gently and touching down almost immediately . |
| 12 | sharpening , where they sharpening down there ? |
| 13 | He speaks English in a curious way , that improbable Dutch-accent tongue slapping down hard on the vowels , like shoe leather on a dry pavement . |
| 14 | City 's unbeaten run went crashing down today when Shenley and Leyton put paid to their chances of further progress in the South Midland League 's Challenge Trophy . |
| 15 | It can be the noisiest thing — like a building crashing down right next to you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It was incredible … barriers were crashing down all around . |
| 17 | Yeah , swinging around us , literally big panes of glass and they were flying down and as soon as they got away from the houses , it opened up again , they were crashing down all over my drive and all over the road out there |
| 18 | gate way down to the embankment , were jogging down there tonight , I 'll have a look at it mm on about it |
| 19 | This meant that steering the boat was made particularly difficult , with the Atlantic swell surging up under the quarter and sending the ketch careering down ever larger mountains of water . |
| 20 | Barefoot , he padded to her side , kneeling down unbearably close . |
| 21 | We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat . |
| 22 | I know what when we were dredging down there , we used to have er what we call our safe chains and when we were first dredging down there you 'd put your chain in , hands were all purple . |
| 23 | The position of the outlets on the fascia board can be determined by a plumbline hanging down centrally over the gully or drain inlet . |
| 24 | Part of the rope still swung there , hanging down directly over the water . |
| 25 | This tree was different from the others because it had branches hanging down very low . |
| 26 | The gap was about a foot and a half wide — wide enough for Sigarup to sit in the basket with his legs hanging down below . |
| 27 | ‘ But I do n't think either ourselves or Forest will be struggling down there at the end of the season . ’ |
| 28 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 29 | It is the presumption that during any particular moment in geological time , sediment was raining down everywhere , preserving all the different contemporaneous environments simultaneously . |
| 30 | But erm It 's gon na make a hell of a racket sanding down afterwards you know . |