Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [v-ing] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louise cried out as she felt her body tumbling down into the blackness . |
| 2 | Out of the corner of her eye , she watched her husband staring down at the cot . |
| 3 | As a result , they spend much of their time sitting down in the thick layer of muck which can inflict burns to their hocks and breasts , and they may also develop ulcerated feet . |
| 4 | Carrie looked at him and saw his mouth turning down at the corners . |
| 5 | He rang off , and it was only minutes before they heard the chug of the engine of his jeep coming down from the hills in the still of the morning . |
| 6 | He lay there , aware of the weight of his body pressing down into the softness of the bed , of the rise and fall of his chest with each breath , the flow of his blood . |
| 7 | One hour later , Rose stood at the window of his room looking down at the harbour scene . |
| 8 | Still in his underclothes , Ebenezer lay sprawled across the bed , his head hanging down over the side , his one hand clawing at his throat . |
| 9 | Scott brought his hand crashing down on the desk top , his face pale with rage , the vein at his temple throbbing . |
| 10 | It 's just to keep it tidy for me and your mummy coming down in the morning son . |
| 11 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 12 | Our own landing proved quite conventional with our pilot putting down in the middle of a playing field in Wootton Bassett , but it 's a normal shaped balloon ; the mobile telephone is a different matter . |