Example sentences of "[v-ing] down out of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a thick concrete wall which we were all going to hide behind and we had our helmets on in case any car parts came raining down out of the sky . |
| 2 | Tolonen leaned forward , looking down out of the porthole . |
| 3 | Sgt. Bamberger then spotted four more coming down out of the sun ( these were likely to have been four of the original six , making their second swoop ) . |
| 4 | He warned MacLachlan , who recorded : ‘ Just as I took my place in the circle I saw four more Messerschmitts coming down out of the sun . |
| 5 | She saw too , in her mind 's eye , the heaving bulk of the buffalo bull struggling in the grass in its death throes , saw once more the blindly charging cow and the ragged black vultures flopping down out of the sky , and all these images crowding through her mind heightened the vague sense of turbulence that was growing inside her with the gathering storm . |
| 6 | It sounds crazy to think some Jap mother might see a diaper floating down out of the sky lit up by flares and fires and grab it to put on her crying baby . |
| 7 | Without warning , 602 and the Edinburgh Squadron pounced on the Germans , screaming down out of the sun and spraying the marauders with concentrated machine gun fire . |