Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] down [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most hospitals now have chapels , but many are hidden down corridors and are uninviting . |
| 2 | On the one hand , much empirical evidence seems to point to the fact that fire-cults in which fire-wheels are rolled down hills , thrown into the air , or in which bonfires are kindled on Midwinter 's or Midsummer 's Day all reflect solar symbolism ; the object of these practices being to ensure the return of the sun , or protection against its heat or whatever . |
| 3 | ‘ Gee , ’ says the inexperienced Masters contestant , ‘ I only won the Paduca Classic and here I am driving down Magnolia Drive to the Masters . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're to go down t'village , to t'stables , ’ George told his father , as he retrieved the reins . |
| 5 | WE 'RE GOING DOWN Pages 2 & 3 FIREBALL ON GUNPOWDER MOUNTAIN Pages 8 & 9 |
| 6 | Yeah well they 're going down south |
| 7 | They 're letting down womanhood by selling themselves on their sex . |
| 8 | Skills such as note-taking come in at this stage , and one way of approaching this is to use the questions originally formulated as a structure for notes taken , so that children are noting down things they need to know , rather than every conceivably useful point . |
| 9 | SIX of Barlaston 's best are heading down Wembley Way aiming to bring home a national aerobics competition . |
| 10 | ‘ Every time we meet we are having to recognise that evil men are cutting down people from our community . ’ |
| 11 | Banks are closing down branches by the hundred . |
| 12 | The approach that involved marking individual plants or seedlings in the field , tracing the fate of individual leaves as they are pulled down earthworm burrows , the behaviour of tendrils as they touch a support , the fate of insects as they land on a Drosera leaf , or recording the number of seeds at the bottom of an earthworm burrow , represented a reductionist level of concentrated observation that contrasted with the geographical view of vegetation with which Warming and others set the early direction of plant ecology . |
| 13 | I I 'm going down south next week and I intend |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm going down Bean 's , ’ he said , despairing . |
| 15 | Sitting in the foyer of their Salzburg hotel — between ‘ shoots ’ , obviously — Paul , guitarist brother Niall and drumming hair bear Ashley Keating are gulping down mineral water , babbling on about the ‘ fierce ’ sights of Austria and generally behaving like men who are having a blinking good time , thank record companies very much . |
| 16 | ‘ These men had terriers with them , which are put down setts in illegal badger hunting . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ These men had terriers with them which are put down setts in illegal badger hunting . |
| 18 | When the etchings are taken down inmates will have another kind of picture to put in their place . |
| 19 | As a result , European customers are talking down machinery prices . |
| 20 | Off the field , Celtic are playing down weekend speculation that they 're about to announce the first instalment of finance for the Cambuslang stadium development . |