Example sentences of "were [v-ing] down to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At twenty past ten Sandison put his book away and sat back to watch the people who were walking down to the square . |
| 2 | There they were going down to the car . |
| 3 | On the far bank white oxen were coming down to the water . |
| 4 | Readers were settling down to the novel 's opening instalment — not a venture to be recommended for ‘ people with weak nerves ’ remarked Strakhov , the gifted critic — when a murder story broke in the newspapers . |
| 5 | The great boom of the war years had passed and the docks were settling down to the post war doldrums . |