Example sentences of "[v-ing] down for the " in BNC.

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1 It 's surprising how much louder they seem to get when you 're bedding down for the night .
2 The last time this happened I just managed to catch a glimpse of his two black eyes , going down for the third time , before I landed him .
3 ‘ Jackie , you do n't understand , I 'm going down for the big one . ’
4 At dusk , passing through the countryside , everything was slowing down for the night .
5 The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’
6 She sat again at the dinner table and saw in the candlelight Hilary Robarts 's dark , discontented eyes staring intently at Alex Mair ; watched the planes of Miles Lessingham 's face fitfully lit by the leaping flames of the fire , saw his long-fingered hands reaching down for the bottle of claret , heard again that measured rather high voice speaking the unspeakable .
7 Its from the water to the racetrack for our action round-up this week … the Oxfordshire based jaguar racing team have been at Silverstone shaking down for the 24 hour race at Le Mans which fires into action next weekend …
8 In short , someone who is , as it were , drinking well now and well worth laying down for the future . ’
9 Others , their duties finished , were settling down for the night on their pallets in front of the fires .
10 Around me the camp was settling down for the night , bricks securing groundsheets , tent flaps tied tight , kerosene lamps hissing away their shadows .
11 The old house creaked in its joints like an old dog settling down for the night .
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