Example sentences of "[v-ing] down for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not like us nipping down for a pint with the vicar ! ’ |
| 2 | I 'm going down for a week from 10 May to see many of them . |
| 3 | he 's applied to the Metropolitan police , he 's going down for an interview in June |
| 4 | She sat again at the dinner table and saw in the candlelight Hilary Robarts 's dark , discontented eyes staring intently at Alex Mair ; watched the planes of Miles Lessingham 's face fitfully lit by the leaping flames of the fire , saw his long-fingered hands reaching down for the bottle of claret , heard again that measured rather high voice speaking the unspeakable . |
| 5 | ‘ What about them ? ’ asked Betty , settling down for an exchange of confidences , a revelation of Lydia 's motives in banishing Finn to the lamp room . |
| 6 | Others , their duties finished , were settling down for the night on their pallets in front of the fires . |