Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] down [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potted shrubs of sombre green flanked a flight of broad , shallow rockfoam steps leading down to a doorway covered by thick curtains of the darkest purple . |
| 2 | They had reached a short flight of stone steps leading down to an open door , and she had no idea of how they had arrived there . |
| 3 | There 's an underground thing — you know , steps going down to a station , so I go down there and wander around for a bit . |
| 4 | An eagle diving to the hand from 500 feet whistling down like an express train is a sight not often forgotten . |
| 5 | They grew unofficially , here and there , interspersed with beech — which shed its leaves like autumn in the spring , willows , the ballerinas of the forest in a permanent static pirouette , their white seeds drifting down in a slow shower against the blue sky , and the tireless gorse , the popping of its seeds breaking the silence of high summer . |
| 6 | This consisted of a strip of patterned cloth with a fringe at each end , a knotted loop in the middle and the two ends hanging down like a modern neck-tie . |
| 7 | That 's despite profits going DOWN by a third to £778 million because of the hot weather . |
| 8 | There were five stone stairs leading down to a wooden floor and a narrow stone corridor . |
| 9 | They were standing in a narrow hall , with a bicycle propped against one wall and stairs leading down to a basement . |
| 10 | The deep rumbling of the explosions dying down to a hissing of falling dust , everything grew quiet , and the twenty or so survivors collapsed against a low wall to get their breath back . |
| 11 | We were , after all , in the huge personnel carrier area , with pods , shuttles and other small vehicles coming down in a steady stream , every one of them disgorging masked and costumed revellers . |
| 12 | When they crested a wooded hill shortly before sunset and saw cultivated fields stretching down towards a small village in the distance it took all her will-power not to beg that they stop there for the night . |
| 13 | A short drive to the West is Clovelly , an extraordinary , quaint fishing village built on the steepest of cobbled streets running down to a tiny harbour . |
| 14 | The pilot heard a bang from the engines , followed by the sound of the engines running down in a rough and abnormal manner . |
| 15 | The ruins of an ancient church stand near the pebble beach , which you may have to share with cows coming down for a paddle . |