Example sentences of "[v-ing] down in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second or two later , everything came crashing down in a big heap on the railway line below . |
| 2 | I should be inside , Robyn thought , lying down in a darkened room . |
| 3 | Disconnected , their instrument of memory fails to record anything of those common night-time moments that preceded lying down in the marital bed . |
| 4 | Erm with chimney sweeper was waiting down in the high street he was waiting there whoa said Mr to the donkey , the donkey was wondering probably whether he was so without listening to a word of warning he jumped on him |
| 5 | They grew unofficially , here and there , interspersed with beech — which shed its leaves like autumn in the spring , willows , the ballerinas of the forest in a permanent static pirouette , their white seeds drifting down in a slow shower against the blue sky , and the tireless gorse , the popping of its seeds breaking the silence of high summer . |
| 6 | The rain was coming down in a solid curtain . |
| 7 | ‘ James is coming down in a little while , Christina . |
| 8 | We were , after all , in the huge personnel carrier area , with pods , shuttles and other small vehicles coming down in a steady stream , every one of them disgorging masked and costumed revellers . |
| 9 | Now this is a a British lorry coming down in the offside lane , cos it 's only two lanes . |
| 10 | You 're in the nearside lane and you 're going uphill and er you 're trunking away quite nicely , you see a guy coming down in the fast lane , down the hill getting a bit of a roll on , fully laden , and he gets halfway up the hill , he runs out of steam and he 's looking for a hole to get into . |
| 11 | Natural gas supplies will begin running down in the twenty-first century . |
| 12 | As a result , they spend much of their time sitting down in the thick layer of muck which can inflict burns to their hocks and breasts , and they may also develop ulcerated feet . |
| 13 | They reach a length of 1m ( 39″ ) and are nocturnal , not settling down in a brightly-lit tank . |
| 14 | We heard them settling down in the next room which until then had been empty . |