Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [to-vb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
3 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
4 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | The rigid structure of Tokugawa society was beginning to break down by the early nineteenth century . |
7 | all that has had to be replaced because that was starting to drip down into the hall , again ! |
8 | 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 . |