Example sentences of "and [pron] be [verb] down [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I do n't know my lines and I 'm dragging down the rest of the cast . ’
2 One evening in mid-April , Dr Jaffery and I were walking down the Chandni Chowk heading towards the doctor 's rooms in the Ghazi-ud-Din Medresse .
3 Dad said I should wait until it stopped snowing so hard , so I watched from the window , and before very long it did ease and I was sent down the cellar for the fuel .
4 And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it .
5 Take-off time arrived and the oil temperatures were still somewhat below the criteria , but I opened the throttles and very shortly the tail was up and I was heading down the short runway into a brisk headwind , pointing straight for the little pub outside the camp that had become a second home for us .
6 A sneaky scramble or climb on Laddow Rocks and you are heading down the eroded Pennine Way track to Crowden and the Longdendale Reservoirs , with the sombre northern slopes of Bleaklow frowning over them .
7 ‘ You take the kid 's word and you 're going down a tunnel , might be a wrong-way tunnel , ’ Nick said .
8 I mean , and we were going down every day to see her when she was
9 Both his arms were covered in seething black sleeves , a moment later and his face was covered with insects , too , and they were pouring down the front of his shirt .
10 Suddenly , as his hands closed over her breasts , she realised that the black lace jacket of her suit was somehow unbuttoned and he was tugging down the lacy bra cups , whispering hotly against her naked throat , and as his head moved lower and his mouth closed hotly over her erect nipples she twisted beneath him , moaning , clutching his dark head as she felt his teeth graze her with agonising pleasure .
11 His feet had slipped from the kicked steps and he was sliding down a water slope that ended , abruptly , at the chasm about twenty-five metres below .
12 Then his feet were on the stairs and he was walking down the narrow , dark steps , which twisted sharply to the right .
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