Example sentences of "[v-ing] down [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were any number of laden country folk in this concourse , and within the hour there would be still more crowding down upon them from the town , after the market . |
| 2 | Looking down below them from the top , they saw that a small crater with the remains of a dried-up lake in it was emitting sulphurous vapours from several points . |
| 3 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 4 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 5 | ‘ Funny little faces peering down at me through the branches overhead . |
| 6 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
| 7 | They found him under the yew tree and after a rather stormy scene , during which Bigwig grew rough and impatient , he was bullied rather than persuaded into going down with them into the great burrow . |
| 8 | The Lord Chancellor , travelling down with us in the train , took Mollie a bet of 5 to 5s. that he would not stand . |
| 9 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 10 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
| 11 | I have got in my diary that I 'm coming down to you on the twenty third of December ? |
| 12 | You 're letting in a draught , ’ whispered Izzie , sitting down beside him in the tail of the wagon . |
| 13 | Easily distinguishable in his bird-lime-encrusted shirt and shorts , he often had a look in his eye that spoke of clouds and freedom , rather than the shin-splitting hordes bearing down on him in the shape of the Corton Heath Corinthians . |
| 14 | Oh , hello … ’ the Doctor replied , not able to tell who was bearing down on him in the fog . |