Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below . |
| 2 | This narrowing down of the focus of the original control theory seems to constitute a switch of attention from offenders to situations . |
| 3 | So this damping down of the sensory input when attention moves elsewhere can occur very early in the pathway from the sense organ to the brain . |
| 4 | First , the re-study noted a marked slowing down in the rate of change , partly because there was little left to change , particularly in the arable areas . |
| 5 | This breaking down of the large molecules to smaller ones is the job of enzymes . |
| 6 | As I banked to port to make a full beam attack on the nearest 88 I sighted the 109s coming down on the other three . |
| 7 | This whittling down of the 33% ( June ) or 30% ( November ) of pupils absent to a very small percentage seen as truants has implications for dealing with the problem of truancy . |
| 8 | We were at the rear of a crowd hundreds strong looking down upon a scene of devastation : shanties burnt and smouldering , shanties still burning , pouring forth black smoke . |
| 9 | How quick can you get to the surface , must be strong , , two , three riding down to the and you 're gon na push it out the way , it 's like , it 's like the tide , it comes in and then goes back out , . |
| 10 | Nude sunbathing down on the Waaf site ! ’ and everyone racing down to have a look . |
| 11 | Square white buildings , three storeys high , sat at regular intervals on the slope , all looking down towards the parade ground . |
| 12 | ‘ One of the early Dalek episodes had a Thal going down to the shore of a lake at night to collect some water . |
| 13 | . They 're all coming down off the bloody erm . |
| 14 | They went higher , up the steep winding road , snow banked high on either side of them and no traffic at all coming down from the pass . |
| 15 | We 're all running down to the river like you said , they may not find us down there . |
| 16 | All of them were chasing the duck but they 've all they 've all decided to stop for the moment , they 're all sitting down on the grass . |
| 17 | The eight men , from St John 's College , came in for a severe dressing down from the police after they bared all on a two-mile row down the River Isis . |
| 18 | Those extending down to the river however look to be of a rude construction . |
| 19 | Had the laundries been at the Riviera end all the detritus from the other businesses , the discarded vegetables and smashed fruit of the greengrocers , the scales and fish heads and guts deposited on the street by the two fishmongers , would have passed by and probably soiled some of the clothes as the intermittent hosing down of the street caused all this muck and filth to edge its way slowly down towards the Bay . |
| 20 | The sky now suddenly seemed clear except for a CR 42 going down in a spin ahead of me . |
| 21 | I spent an afternoon in Sunderland with an old miner in his eighties , who was n't a club man or active in the union , with this lovely voice , talking about first going down as a trapper — he sat all day when he was thirteen by the trap doors which the paddy wagons carrying coal had to pass through , all day in the pitch dark . |
| 22 | 1 Settling down with a book can be a chilly experience if there 's no blanket to snuggle beneath . |
| 23 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 24 | The first change they noticed as a result of the Revolution was the indiscriminate and wasteful hacking down of the woods by the peasants : large trees had merely been deprived of their thinner branches . |
| 25 | ‘ What have you learned , Lili ? ’ asked my mother , at last sitting down with a cup of tea before her . |
| 26 | ( One widely held theory was that Iran had paid Jabril US$1,000,000 to blow up PA 103 in retaliation for the July 1988 shooting down of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes [ see pp. 36169-70 ] ] ) . |