Example sentences of "[v-ing] down on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kneeling down on the dusty pavement , she made as if to tie her shoelaces . |
| 2 | Turn right into er what is a very busy er road in any event at that time but that the dangers is that many drivers are becoming impatient with waiting their turn in the queue and what they 're doing is driving down on the wrong side of the road in order to utilise a little back road that 's a service road which runs alongside road and leads into Nightingale avenue . |
| 3 | The three grown people stand looking down on the sleeping infant whose soft breathing seems to have spread the tawny bloom over its ivory skin . |
| 4 | He stood close to Rebus , looking down on the smaller man , fixing him in the eye . |
| 5 | So did Sean and Michael and the family and most of the congregation , except old Emmet , who was still asleep and Jock , who sat in the choir balcony with his arms folded , looking down on the Latin mumbo-jumbo with Presbyterian disapproval . |
| 6 | And Jackdaws Castle which sits high on the Cotswolds is now looking down on the racing world … |
| 7 | When the old man came into the yard she pointed towards the coalhouse ; the next minute , looking down on the bloodied form , he said , ‘ God in heaven ! ’ |
| 8 | She tried lying down on the bare mattress , but the whole place felt cold and close . |
| 9 | But i it depends Terry with everybody 's going down on the urgent work ones which is putting the normal service |
| 10 | Sometimes I looked out of the window at the grey November afternoon , and saw the rain pouring down on the leafless garden . |
| 11 | Clamping down on the professional foul does not need a change of law , simply a change of emphasis by referees . |
| 12 | Then Mr. Shelford makes his pathetic statement on referees clamping down on the high tackle . |
| 13 | Then the main wall of water struck the building , and the shutters burst inwards like reeds , and the salt water rushed white and green into the hall at Orphir , thrusting obstructions aside , while a slap of water , heavy as lead , fell on the thatch and through it , to pour foaming down on the deepening sea on the hall-floor . |
| 14 | Looking up at the north-facing slope ahead you would see snow and ice and you would tremble , but you would know that coming down on the other side , you would walk in sunshine , through green grass and sweet-smelling flowers . |
| 15 | She put the tray she was carrying down on the wrought iron table . |
| 16 | She went to him , crouching down on the cold earth . |
| 17 | Never the most fluent of jumpers , she put in some unnecessarily extravagant leaps before settling down on the second circuit , but then met the final open ditch all wrong and deposited the hapless Mullins on the floor . |
| 18 | Clinging to this assurance , Isabel listened to the rain beating down on the other side of the wall and refused to think about her peculiar reactions to fitzAlan any longer . |