Example sentences of "[v-ing] down in the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On reconnaissance nights , the submarine had to use precious hours of moonless darkness while she charged her batteries before trimming down in the water with her saddle-tanks just awash , the slight swell breaking occasionally over the casing . |
| 2 | He 'd probably never been to Brixton before — I could tell that from the way he was sinking down in the back of Armstrong the farther along Effra Road we got . |
| 3 | I think all that stuff is just lying down in the face of the mass media . |
| 4 | We sent reporter Patsi Mackenzie to find out how the Gaelic 's going down in the heart of Lanarkshire . |
| 5 | There were reports during January that the Rome accord , the partial ceasefire negotiated on Dec. 1 , 1990 , to cover the Beira and Limpopo corridors , was breaking down in the face of persistent attacks by the rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) . |
| 6 | ‘ We are already putting more money into free travel for the blind since the previously consistent approach to concessionary fares by borough councils started breaking down in the face of financial pressures ’ , he added . ’ |
| 7 | First , the re-study noted a marked slowing down in the rate of change , partly because there was little left to change , particularly in the arable areas . |
| 8 | SIR , — In not accepting our explanation ( May 15 , p 1286 ) for the difference between the November , 1988 , and January , 1990 , forecasts for AIDS incidence in England and Wales — namely , a slowing down in the rate of transmission of HIV among homosexual men — Professor Stewart ( p 1287 ) states that we are not reading the data correctly . |
| 9 | If the money supply is not expanded sufficiently to meet this demand , interest rates will rise , this in turn will discourage some investment and so contribute to the slowing down in the growth of output and eventually lead to the upper turning-point . |
| 10 | ‘ Coming down in the middle of the night like that probably muddled the hell out of them . |
| 11 | Mr Sheffield said the acute coronary attack suffered by Mrs McGinley would have resulted in her falling down in the path of the car . |
| 12 | At the weekend there was a bunch of us playing down in the alley-way near Julie 's house . |
| 13 | Our own landing proved quite conventional with our pilot putting down in the middle of a playing field in Wootton Bassett , but it 's a normal shaped balloon ; the mobile telephone is a different matter . |
| 14 | It was still dark , and he could see the rain slanting down in the light of the street lamps . |
| 15 | The showdown followed three earlier occasions when Government whips took the issue to the brink before backing down in the face of certain defeat by the combined ranks of the Opposition and Conservative rebels . |
| 16 | However , environment organisations condemned the Government for backing down in the face of an organised lobby from vested interests . |