Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [v-ing] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another very common action is pushing down on the legs to propel the body upwards . |
| 2 | It was as if his mind was digging down through the years and bringing up pictures of past events … |
| 3 | The gardens outside my window are bowing down to the heat of the afternoon , but my mind is racing in this stillness , like a dust devil on the apparently windless plains . |
| 4 | The sun 's dipping down over the trees and a breeze gets up , rustling the leaves on the ornamental shrubs and blowing some grit into my left eye , making it water again . |
| 5 | She did n't fall heavily , but lightly , as if a piece of muslin was drifting down to the carpet . |
| 6 | If you find that one side of the body is pushing down into the floor , then think of that side of the body releasing away from the floor . |
| 7 | The rain was beating down on the windows , but Catherine stayed outside , although by now her hair and clothes were completely wet . |
| 8 | But the skies were darkening and the rain was pouring down over the fields . |
| 9 | A cottonwool mist was floating down towards the lake from the ridge in the moonlight . |
| 10 | His father was pointing down at the rocks . |
| 11 | Or , for instance , the floating roadway where traffic was going down on the barges to go across the river , it would be well worth any particular company to have a word with the officer on the floating roadway to let their vehicles through first . |
| 12 | Public spending was being reined back and the Cabinet was getting down to the series of bruising public-spending battles which characterized our first few years of office . |
| 13 | As the first grey slivers of dawn were filtering down through the trees , Roger Forester climbed stiffly from his hire car and stood on the track beside it , stretching his sore limbs and trying to beat some warmth into himself . |
| 14 | As you can see there , the model is breaking down during the latter period of our sample . |
| 15 | The third one is the , this book is pushing down on the table and the table is pushing up on the book . |
| 16 | No it 's not the soap in that box is lying down in the coal hole . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | A green bonfire is smouldering down by the heap . |
| 19 | While the Prince of Banality is going down as the embodiment of Eighties vulgarity and hype , the museum world and the academy are singing his praises . |
| 20 | The digital clock was counting down towards the performance . |
| 21 | Around me the camp was settling down for the night , bricks securing groundsheets , tent flaps tied tight , kerosene lamps hissing away their shadows . |
| 22 | The insolvency department has moved to Southampton based Lyon Pilcher , the Salisbury office is closing down with the loss of four jobs , and Gaynor Harris is back where she started with the Southampton practice ( to be known as Hook Harris ) which she has bought from the old partnership with Charles Bullworthy , with money borrowed from family and friends . |
| 23 | We sent reporter Patsi Mackenzie to find out how the Gaelic 's going down in the heart of Lanarkshire . |
| 24 | ‘ She was out of the oxygen tent earlier- and her temperature was coming down with the antibiotics but then when she came to … she opened her eyes and suddenly seemed to go into a panic . |