Example sentences of "[v-ing] down [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the gallery the girl halted , gazing down into the hall through one of the archways cut into the wall . |
| 2 | ‘ BEST decision I 've ever made in my life , ’ said Des Walker , gazing down from the terrace of his Genoese apartment at sunlit rocks and ocean . |
| 3 | On her ice cream round she lost her temper , bringing down on the head of the ringleader the entire tray of ice cream . |
| 4 | Ember , thumping down from the sunflower against the bitter chocolate of the Martian sky . |
| 5 | To its horror it will find itself slipping and sliding , tumbling down at the mercy of its foes . |
| 6 | In course of time McKenzie did just that and the four divers slipped over the side , touching down on the deck of the Delos just over an hour after leaving the Ariadne . |
| 7 | He raises it over his head and brings it crashing down on the back of the man 's head ; once , twice , three times . |
| 8 | As Bamber explains , such high expectations of the work , and an unrealistic idealism surrounding ‘ caring ’ and the medical model of illness , ‘ come crashing down with the reality of work experience ’ . |
| 9 | In the patchy moonlight filtering down through the latticework of branches above , he could see no lurking figures . |
| 10 | Court Four of the Royal Courts of Justice in London was packed with judges and barristers to hear the support lent to Lord Lane , who announced in February that he was stepping down at the age of 73 , 18 months before the compulsory retirement age for judges . |
| 11 | Two days later Horst Teltschik ( CDU ) announced that he would be stepping down at the end of the year as Kohl 's foreign policy adviser at the Chancellery . |
| 12 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
| 13 | Dot remembered how sometimes there used to be singing down in the shelters in the dark . |
| 14 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 15 | She saw him flex his ankle and wince , and she stood up and went over to him , kneeling down on the end of one of the sleeping-bags . |
| 16 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 17 | Dawdling down to the village on this spurious errand , Alexandra was consumed with impatient curiosity . |
| 18 | The rope , however , was no longer hanging down through the hole in the ceiling . |
| 19 | Essentially the string galvanometer consisted of a coil of copper wire , connected at either end to two electrodes , and string hanging down within the coil to which was attached a small magnetized mirror . |
| 20 | His wife lay there so limp , so insubstantial , her black hair hanging down like the tail of a whipped animal and one white hand clutching his sleeve as though it were her only hold on life . |
| 21 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 22 | She liked the moss-covered cobbles of the yard , and appreciated the random design of the shaggy tufts of grass hanging down from the eaves of the ancient stable blocks ahead . |
| 23 | By analogy with the genetic information raining down on the canal from my willow tree , we could say that the dust carries ‘ instructions ’ for how to dam streams and eventually make more dust . |
| 24 | Eventually they acquired the status of gods and goddesses whose periodic tantrums brought epidemics , famines and other disasters raining down on the heads of long-suffering humanity . |
| 25 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 26 | ‘ And I knew it from that first day when you came driving down to the chais like a crazy woman . |
| 27 | When we were driving down from the border towards Beni Abbes , we quaked every time we saw police or soldiers . |
| 28 | If you are walking down into the centre along Avenida do Infante , after the Savoy Hotel you pass the modern Casino Park Hotel and , behind it , the new Casino . |
| 29 | She was walking down towards the ferry with Mr Clark and found the way blocked by a stationary train of wagons . |
| 30 | I do n't want you walking down to the pub in this , in the dark cold night . |