Example sentences of "[v-ing] down [prep] the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 2 | We drank the tea squatting in the shade , gazing down over the desert and the river valley . |
| 3 | Scotch Whisky is inseparable from Scotland … of all the spirits mankind has distilled , refined and enhanced from nature 's huge store of goodness , Scotch Whisky is the noblest … a distillation of the natural riches with which Scotland is so abundantly endowed … clear waters tumbling down from the hills and across the moors , though peat and over granite … fields of golden barley … the cool , pure air . |
| 4 | I think about telling her that Andy was there , in his sleeping bag , listening the whole time , but while I 'm thinking about it something goes wrong ; there must have been a flaw in one of the glasses , or the weight is just too much , because there 's a cracking sound and one side of the pyramid starts to collapse , sending an avalanche of falling glass and frothing champagne spilling crashing down off the table and smashing , bouncing and splashing onto the mats and the floor below . |
| 5 | You can now stand the garter bar upright in the needle groove of your ribber , with the knitting hanging down between the ribber and the knitter . |
| 6 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought of walking down to the beach and having a hamburger at Pepe 's . ’ |
| 8 | So she changed direction again and found herself walking down to the prom and out along the beach to Seal Sands Lock . |
| 9 | I jumped up and ran laughing down through the grass and the bushes , down into the glen . |
| 10 | I would remained erm close to the doorway covering the internal hallway er effectively looking down towards the kitchen and the living room area . |
| 11 | And the woman seemed in no hurry to close it and shut out the dangerous night ; she simply stood , looking down at the children and smiling . |
| 12 | He dwells in a high tower looking down on the metropolis and can often be seen flying high above it on his War Griffon Stormwing . |
| 13 | But this raised the problem that one eye was always looking down into the sand and was effectively useless . |
| 14 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 15 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 16 | The men immediately set off in one direction , scrambling down through the trees and undergrowth towards the subsidiary valley where the shot had sounded . |
| 17 | Roll out most of this ( 450g/1lb ) to a large circle and use to cover the cake , smoothing down over the sides and over the join . |
| 18 | The third one is the , this book is pushing down on the table and the table is pushing up on the book . |
| 19 | The houses in the High Street went stravaiging down to the Gallowgate and the Saltmarket , to which last place no sane citizen would go as it was full of cutthroat robbers , avoided even by the police . |
| 20 | Yes , but On the last comment that er Chris made er bringing us and the letter to county about the the failure of the meeting on the twenty second cos we feel that they are just lying down to the situation and not pursuing a pursuing the D A P about whatsoever and erm we are , certainly in John 's letter probably get it signed tonight complaining and asking for a a meeting as soon as possible because we feel that that they ought to be pursuing the question of these two sites , they 're dragging their feet ! |
| 21 | But perhaps when you 're lying down on the floor and tied up by little people you can hardly see and do n't believe in , that 's not the best time to start communicating . |
| 22 | Or it could be the boy going down through the field and scaring them . |
| 23 | We thought about going down on the saturday and staying at Great Yarmouth and then driving to the match . |
| 24 | Chris Pike is back in the side to play Chester tomorrow after going down with the snuffles and sneezes . |
| 25 | At the going down of the sun and in the morning |
| 26 | At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them . ’ |
| 27 | She never fussed when he said that he was going down to the country and did n't know when he 'd be back . |
| 28 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 29 | We are going down towards the forest and the Arctic night is awesome . |
| 30 | The sea wall ended , steps going down from the promenade and burying themselves in sand . |