Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or a man with her husband 's build parading down a Paris runway in Calvin Klein 's latest skivvies . |
| 2 | Harrogate scored all their points in the first half with a try by their Yorkshire scrum half , Guy Easterby , from a blind side scrum move , Steve Baker touching down a try following a tap penalty move . |
| 3 | The Principal of St John 's declared roundly that he was a lunatic — ‘ I saw him yesterday afternoon walking down the Bailey with one foot on the pavement and one foot in the gutter all the way ’ . |
| 4 | Well , the most serious one , I suppose , is that there were some people in a car driving down the bottom end of Commerical Street and they had their windows broken by stones thrown by Hereford lads . |
| 5 | For example , if I measure a car traveling down the highway , I might think it had moved only one kilometer , but to someone on the sun , it would have moved about 1,800 kilometers , because the earth would have moved while the car was going down the road . |
| 6 | Jack saw the ambulance tearing down the factory service road , siren screaming , lights blazing . |
| 7 | In string theories , what were previously thought of as particles are now pictured as waves traveling down the string , like waves on a vibrating kite string . |
| 8 | He had almost given up hope of meeting Liza on the beach and was considering whether he would , after all , call at Four Winds , despite Eleanor 's warnings , when , to his incredulous delight , on the fifth day of his visit , he saw a different figure scrambling down the cliff followed by a little girl . |
| 9 | ‘ No , ’ said Harry , already in his mind scrambling down the rocks in the dark to Severnside . |
| 10 | I crawled over the grass and sat with my back against the farmhouse and stared at the blood pouring down the front of my battledress . |
| 11 | And I used to go down you used to see all the mams and kids going down the moors here , taking their dad 's tea , down in the fields , so they could have a bit of something and then finish as got dark . |
| 12 | Both were involved in the opening goal , Johnrose heading down a corner from the right by Paul Cross and Saville striking a shot Kevan Smith sliced , as he attempted to clear , into the Darlington net . |
| 13 | One of the agents observing some fragments of rock clattering down the shaft and falling around him , warned , " take care or you will have your brains knocked out . " |
| 14 | The evidence from the Leicestershire textile village of Shepshed , as he puts it , ‘ supports the argument that the acceleration of economic activity after 1750 was the prime agent breaking down the traditional social controls that previously maintained a demographic equilibrium in which population size was kept in line with resources . ’ |
| 15 | The poet breaking down the barricades Radio . |
| 16 | Speaking at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union , Lin Callis of NASA suggested that up to 75 per cent of the decline could be a result of the fluctuating solar cycle , with a build up of electrons and neutrons breaking down the ozone . |
| 17 | When they gave quite unacceptable displays of dissent , such as Holding kicking down the stumps or Croft deliberately barging into an umpire who had no-balled him , Lloyd did nothing to discipline them in public view . |
| 18 | Got ta make cups of tea coming down every half hour . |
| 19 | Carrie sat around the bed with her mother and Fred chatting for a while , and it was not too long before they saw Joe Maitland coming down the ward . |
| 20 | Miranda had a skewed air , her dark curls sprang up on her head so that the younger girl noticed little black hairs running down the vertebrae of her neck to the nape ; there was a feral shine and speed to her too , something uncontained , and it scared the younger girl . |
| 21 | I can taste blood running down the back of my throat , then my arms are grabbed and everything just spins all colours and then black . |
| 22 | I want a side parting down the |
| 23 | Light coming down the barrel is focussed by a small plastic lens onto the photo-diode and the device is sensitive enough to detect the changes in intensity of the picture . |
| 24 | Since electrical pulses zinging down a wire are more regular and predictable than a steel cable moving inside a plastic cover , the result should be more precise control of engine revs and better fuel consumption . |
| 25 | The rain fell steadily , almost vertically , for several minutes , drops like pearls rolling down the glass and dripping on the sill . |
| 26 | At snow falling down the blinded door . |
| 27 | The reasons are all too obvious : children in the camps , when asked to draw a picture about their lives at home , almost invariably produce scenes including helicopters bombing their farms or bodies dripping with blood flowing down the local stream . |
| 28 | I like it when when wh it floods in town and you can go down and watch foreigners standing looking at the roofs of their cars floating down the Ouse and you think Yeah ! . |
| 29 | ‘ Basically , ’ he would say to the camera , his gestures as urgent and incisive as those of any other citizen laying down the law on television , basically I 'm a very passionate man . |
| 30 | He heard a burst of gunfire and saw a car disappearing down the Glen Road . |