Example sentences of "[v-ing] down on the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On her ice cream round she lost her temper , bringing down on the head of the ringleader the entire tray of ice cream . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He raises it over his head and brings it crashing down on the back of the man 's head ; once , twice , three times . |
| 4 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 10 | Hours of bending and stretching and twisting down on the prom in singlets and shorts while the wind whipped over us from the wintry sea . |
| 11 | The sharp sound of Sister Mary 's hand banging down on the square of writing paper stopped the chanting . |
| 12 | There was absolutely no point in having two hundred people perched up on the road looking down on the top of a marquee . |
| 13 | These attitudes included looking down on the pursuit of trade and commerce as somewhat inferior socially . |
| 14 | He stood by the large window , looking down on the lights of Leeds . |
| 15 | A stroll in the moonlight by the old St Joseph 's seminary and the lake , and then looking down on the lights of Wigan . |
| 16 | To compare models such as those shown in Fig. 5a with the observations shown in Fig. 4 , it is necessary to make a transformation from what one would observe looking down on the plane to the ( l , v ) plot observed from our position in the plane . |
| 17 | Sinking down on the edge of the bed , she sat , head in hands . |
| 18 | So , with this result , I decided to try the opposite by pushing down on the boom through the turn . |
| 19 | Gould remembers following the driver and lying down on the floor of the car face down , waiting for the ambush to pass . |
| 20 | ‘ Laura ! ’ he groaned , tossing aside his shirt and swiftly divesting himself of his clothes before lying down on the bed beside her . |
| 21 | It was less easy to convince herself that the thought of lying down on the bench with fitzAlan , with hardly a stitch of clothing between them , did n't scare the wits out of her . |
| 22 | Squatting down on the floor like a peasant , Gaveston began the dark satanic ritual learnt from his mother for the total destruction of his enemies . |
| 23 | Amanda had been all enthusiastic even in the rain , saying it was spray in her face and look at the gulls , which were swooping down on the shoal of crisp packets and orange peel trailing in the wake . |
| 24 | P.U.M.P. : ‘ Barabajagal ( Love Is Hot ) ’ ( Ultimate ) out of the ashes of the Junior Manson Slags arrives Aqua Marina , with her Purple Under Melted Pink getting down on the dancefloor with a hot and sultry Donovan song . |
| 25 | However , at the end of 1981 a new superintendent instituted changes which included moving a number of the area 's community police-officers to other duties and clamping down on the activities by local youths which had previously been tolerated . |
| 26 | He had , however , noted that in clamping down on the protests of 1980 the Polish party had acted under great Soviet pressure . |
| 27 | In fact obesity can be effectively reversed by eating more brad and cutting down on the amounts of butter , margarine and oil we eat , and taking some exercise . |
| 28 | But these larger firms are already cutting down on the size of their student intake and , if the trend continues , will end up — as Grant Thornton has already done — recruiting and training only staff who are expected to make a career with the firm after qualifying . |
| 29 | It is now compulsory for all firms with more than 25 employees to have a ‘ car journey reduction plan ’ , cutting down on the use of cars to get to work . |
| 30 | Insulation is about saving energy , cutting down on the waste of fossil fuels , and reducing the amount of carbon dioxide we release into the atmosphere by burning them . |