Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could feel the blast on my back as I was pitched forward , landing face down on the ground unable to move and gasping for breath . |
| 2 | Edward had watched over her for hours , even refusing to go down to the lock with his friends for days , though he loved to play there . |
| 3 | I think about telling her that Andy was there , in his sleeping bag , listening the whole time , but while I 'm thinking about it something goes wrong ; there must have been a flaw in one of the glasses , or the weight is just too much , because there 's a cracking sound and one side of the pyramid starts to collapse , sending an avalanche of falling glass and frothing champagne spilling crashing down off the table and smashing , bouncing and splashing onto the mats and the floor below . |
| 4 | The Castle was faintly lit by the soft light of the moon , and Grainne , pausing to look down over the courtyard through a small side window , saw how the countryside was bathed in radiance . |
| 5 | The impact as well as the shock of the bullet wound knocked him crashing face down to the ground , his legs all mixed up with the trolley 's wheels . |
| 6 | We 're going to go down to the travel agents |
| 7 | There 's nobody more sensible , but underneath all the sense there 's the woman , and her needs , and the feeling that she 's going to go down through the years alone . |
| 8 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm terribly afraid it 's going to come down in the marshland . |
| 10 | I have n't enjoyed the last two years down there , but erm as I say , let's stick our necks out and say ‘ United are going to win down at the County ground ’ . |
| 11 | I 'm going to walk down to the hotel on the other side of the bay and see if they 've got any rooms free — ’ |
| 12 | With a slash of the knife he remembers when he was twelve , lying face down on the landing , watching and listening to his parents arguing about him and his future . |
| 13 | The two bodies were lying face down on the grass a few yards apart . |
| 14 | His admonition was unnecessary , for Robbie chose that moment to black out , and the next thing she knew she was lying face down on the canal bank , with Fen applying rough but effective resuscitation techniques . |
| 15 | I was lying face down on the ground . |
| 16 | She was next aware of dimly seeing her father lying face down on the path , his hands bent up behind him and Richard with one knee on his back . |
| 17 | On the page opposite there is a cartoon of Pissed dressed up in a suit lying face down in the gutter clutching a bottle of lager , and Mickey Aspel coming out from under a manhole cover saying ‘ George Best ! |
| 18 | It was wholly predictable , then , that at about 8.50 on the morning of Monday , March 17 , I was lying face down in the grammar school dirt with 30 jeering first formers on my back . |
| 19 | The guidelines for interviewing laid down in the Market Research Society Code of Conduct should be adopted where relevant . |
| 20 | Meat Loaf came on to a volley of missiles and for one , beautiful moment , it seemed he was going to get down from the stage and beat some arsehole to death . |
| 21 | In an area with around 250 cm of rain a year , it seems clear that if the hillsides are not replanted then silt is going to rush down into the river , through the sluice gates of the dam and into the new land , where irrigation canals might become seriously clogged up , and the fertility of the soil lowered . |
| 22 | Some kinds of worm plug their burrows by pulling leaves down into the opening . |
| 23 | The other is holding a grey Government-issue ballpoint above the label on the cover , as motionless as a lizard , waiting to strike down into the space next to the word Subject . |
| 24 | The present owner of Miss Havisham 's house told of a fisherman she had met in Broadstairs one day who remembered ‘ Old Charley a-coming flying down from the cliff with a hop , skip and jump , with his hair all flying about ’ . |
| 25 | Gazing idly over the rolling green lawns , she watched the red glow of the sun , slowly beginning to sink down over the horizon . |
| 26 | So great is the traffic between those striving to clamber down to the sea and those who , having spawned , are attempting to get back again , that many can not reach the water . |
| 27 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
| 28 | Getting sucked down into the house and the house things and the babyworld and the child-world and the cooking-world and the shopping-world . |
| 29 | Oxfordshire and west Buckinghamshire beginning to calm down after the rush hour this evening . |
| 30 | Widely known for his anti-Maastricht politics , Fillon says that he wants to avoid ‘ getting bogged down at the EC level … whose cumbersome procedures put a damper on the research community ’ . |