Example sentences of "[v-ing] down [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | On her ice cream round she lost her temper , bringing down on the head of the ringleader the entire tray of ice cream . |
| 3 | To its horror it will find itself slipping and sliding , tumbling down at the mercy of its foes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He raises it over his head and brings it crashing down on the back of the man 's head ; once , twice , three times . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | In the patchy moonlight filtering down through the latticework of branches above , he could see no lurking figures . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Did n't look very well , we were walking down by the side of the road ! |
| 17 | Considered as an institutional bridge , Schloss Hartheim was part of my winding down from the experience of the KZ . |
| 18 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The sharp sound of Sister Mary 's hand banging down on the square of writing paper stopped the chanting . |
| 21 | Looking down towards the mouth of the street , they saw shadows gathering . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've all got to share , ’ she said , as they passed through the swing doors and found themselves looking down at the courtyard of the Museum . |
| 23 | Looking down at the top of Joe 's balding pate , Michael listened to the haunting childish voice and could have cried . |
| 24 | For nearly a minute he said nothing and I had the sense to keep quiet , too , looking down at the top of his head . |
| 25 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 26 | Hal Shepherd stood at the turn of the road , his hands resting lightly on the low stone wall , looking down at the row of cottages and the bay beyond . |
| 27 | Looking down at the reflection of the stars in the still , calm sea below , she said softly , ‘ I 'm glad we came up here . |
| 28 | Again she was silent for a moment or two , looking down at the carpet of tawny beech leaves , debris of the previous autumn , now shimmering in the dappled shafts of light which struggled through the tree canopy . |
| 29 | But now he trod carefully across the carpet to the bed and stood silently looking down at the body of Berowne . |
| 30 | Looking down at the curve of her cheekbone , still wet with tears , he suddenly wanted her , quite overwhelmingly . |