Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |
| 2 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 3 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 4 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 5 | We were looking down into a little valley like a green cup in the hills . |
| 6 | The way we had taken was winding down towards a small lock or tarn . |
| 7 | It must have been an automatic reaction because he was looking down at the motionless figure and shouting , ‘ Harriet ! ’ |
| 8 | He was peering down from the leaning tower of Pisa like Galileo testing his theory of gravity . |
| 9 | Erm with chimney sweeper was waiting down in the high street he was waiting there whoa said Mr to the donkey , the donkey was wondering probably whether he was so without listening to a word of warning he jumped on him |
| 10 | The rain was coming down in a solid curtain . |
| 11 | She was staring down at the undulating ground . |
| 12 | She put the tray she was carrying down on the wrought iron table . |
| 13 | But with the industry in recession , and record sales dropping , the hitherto dependable cashflow was trickling down at an alarming rate . |