Example sentences of "[v-ing] down and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can he justify a cost per job in the strategic deterrent of £352,000 in a world in which the major powers are building down and renouncing weapons but he is building up ? |
| 2 | It is hard to escape the implication that a major source of this taboo is the sense that the priest kneeling down and washing women 's ‘ naked ’ feet would be somehow both sexual and polluting to the sacred . |
| 3 | It depicts an outline map of Anglesey with airship SZ.234 superimposed , its trail rope hanging down and pointing to the location near Llangefni which is now part of RAF Mona . |
| 4 | Just then she spotted a loose thread hanging down and catapulted forward . |
| 5 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
| 6 | Gilly nearly tripped over herself , leaping down and grabbing up ‘ Sarsaparilla to Sorcery ’ from the chair seat , stretching her guts out to tip the book into its place on the shelf as Trotter appeared at the door . |
| 7 | Chairman Sir Ian McLaurin said shoppers are tightening their belts and ‘ trading down and buying cheaper food -such as bread , lemonade and frozen chips ’ |
| 8 | William Davis , Chairman of the British Tourist Authority , says overseas visitors are still coming but they 're trading down and looking for bargains . |
| 9 | A man has admitted knocking down and killing a cyclist after drinking more than five pints of lager . |
| 10 | And this helped them to pay for knocking down and putting up walls so that they could move the bathroom to a lovely sunny spot off the main upstairs landing . |
| 11 | He was kind of looking down and twiddling his pen , you know … and I mean I know it sounds stupid , but I did n't mind , I think I knew anyway . |
| 12 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 13 | looking down and seeing the young man again . |
| 14 | SUMMERCHILD : A feeling of — I don t know — looking down and seeing the world stretching away over the horizon . |
| 15 | I put my hand to my brow , looking down and shaking my head , then sigh theatrically and look at him , letting my shoulders slump . |
| 16 | Jess resisted , primly folding her hands , looking down and waiting in a resigned-servant manner for permission to go . |
| 17 | ‘ Stupid , ’ Teng said , looking down and laughing . |
| 18 | ‘ I got it from a novel I read at school , ’ she said , looking down and shuffling her feet . |
| 19 | Secure in the knowledge that his mother would be fully occupied for the rest of the evening and the butler would be busy introducing the guests , Patrick pulled off his dressing down and slipped down the back stairs to the kitchen . |
| 20 | Because of his understanding of practice , he is able not only to show how police ideology is maintained , but even propose alternative models by merely writing down and presenting his knowledge . |
| 21 | The gurgling male , alternately bowing down and rearing up , chased the female from one row of tiles to the next . |
| 22 | He will be given the task of hunting down and destroying external enemies who are posing a threat to the Gold Dragon Hung . |
| 23 | In a brief campaign , Aurangzeb had seized the empire , imprisoned his father , and had begun hunting down and murdering his three brothers . |
| 24 | A CALL for Christians to join Muslims in hunting down and killing the novelist Salman Rushdie was made yesterday by the speaker of Iran 's parliament , Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri . |
| 25 | A CALL for Christians to join Muslims in hunting down and killing the novelist Salman Rushdie was made yesterday by the speaker of Iran 's parliament , Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri . |
| 26 | But he was clambering down and opening the door , to take part in whatever was going on . |
| 27 | HP has decided not to take Sun 's move on its Apollo base ( UX No 394 ) , lying down and has decided to retaliate in kind . |
| 28 | Well me Auntie Jean and me Mum got passed once , like they 'd been going down and scrubbing it from side at bath and everything . |
| 29 | It is n't because I keep on going down and filling up the metro with ten pounds worth of petrol and I 'm not making a a trip back and forth to work every day . |
| 30 | Going down and staying down |