Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're going to go down to the travel agents |
| 2 | That they did not do and now the leader of the council said well they 're trying to get down to the standard spending assessment at last , he could have done that a long time ago , you have had nothing but excess expenditure proposals on behalf of this city for many , many years . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 — ’ |
| 5 | The two bodies were lying face down on the grass a few yards apart . |
| 6 | There was a lot of noise ; people were getting bets down on the first pair . |
| 7 | The Prince and McPhee had walked on to the top of the bank and were standing looking down at the river . |
| 8 | Erm I think this whole issue is going to boil down to the your assumptions on migration . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm terribly afraid it 's going to come down in the marshland . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is a tragedy if law and order is beginning to break down in the north of Somalia , in what is , after all , the old British Somaliland and is now known to local people as Somaliland ? |
| 13 | I was lying face down on the ground . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 18 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
| 19 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
| 20 | The morning sky was smudged yellow and grey with smoke and the heat was beginning to beat down on the fighting when Dulé gave a leg-up to one of his fellow fighters to scale the stockade . |
| 21 | The rigid structure of Tokugawa society was beginning to break down by the early nineteenth century . |
| 22 | all that has had to be replaced because that was starting to drip down into the hall , again ! |
| 23 | She very much doubted Madeleine would be prepared to give up the good time she was having to settle down in the country on Harry 's salary . |
| 24 | I stared at him because he sounded so cold , but he was sitting looking down at the glass which he held on his knees and I could n't see his face . |
| 25 | Marcus was standing looking down at the woman . |
| 26 | ‘ He was floating face down in the carp pond ! ’ |