Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Principal of St John 's declared roundly that he was a lunatic — ‘ I saw him yesterday afternoon walking down the Bailey with one foot on the pavement and one foot in the gutter all the way ’ . |
| 2 | For example , if I measure a car traveling down the highway , I might think it had moved only one kilometer , but to someone on the sun , it would have moved about 1,800 kilometers , because the earth would have moved while the car was going down the road . |
| 3 | Jack saw the ambulance tearing down the factory service road , siren screaming , lights blazing . |
| 4 | He had almost given up hope of meeting Liza on the beach and was considering whether he would , after all , call at Four Winds , despite Eleanor 's warnings , when , to his incredulous delight , on the fifth day of his visit , he saw a different figure scrambling down the cliff followed by a little girl . |
| 5 | I crawled over the grass and sat with my back against the farmhouse and stared at the blood pouring down the front of my battledress . |
| 6 | One of the agents observing some fragments of rock clattering down the shaft and falling around him , warned , " take care or you will have your brains knocked out . " |
| 7 | I can taste blood running down the back of my throat , then my arms are grabbed and everything just spins all colours and then black . |
| 8 | Light coming down the barrel is focussed by a small plastic lens onto the photo-diode and the device is sensitive enough to detect the changes in intensity of the picture . |
| 9 | ‘ Basically , ’ he would say to the camera , his gestures as urgent and incisive as those of any other citizen laying down the law on television , basically I 'm a very passionate man . |
| 10 | Dalgliesh waited until Meg had unlocked the front door and stepped inside before saying his final goodnight , and she stood for a moment watching his tall figure striding down the gravel path and into the darkness . |
| 11 | To show how our minds work we would visualise an aeroplane tearing down the runway dragging alarm clocks behind it on strings . |
| 12 | It had burned a whole year long , and the half of another , the image of Linnet gliding down the aisle behind Gemma like a lovely abandoned swan so engraved on Ben Braithwaite 's memory that he would have no peace , no rest — he 'd vowed — until he had possessed her . |
| 13 | But it was another slender figure , a woman , shimmying up on to the port wing , from there on to the scorching hull , running along the curve in great , light strides and flinging her arm out in front of her , pointing with her index and little fingers at the mob pulling down the man . |
| 14 | Number three , do you encourage energy efficiency in your home and in the work place ? er becoming aware energy efficiency at home turning down the heat so that we do n't live in a it 's hardly appropriate today is it ? — er we do n't live in hothouses : spins off from their place of work , and if they 're being energy efficient at work , they 're being energy efficient with our money . |
| 15 | The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit , a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain . |
| 16 | A wire balloon should be fitted into the top of each downpipe to prevent birds nesting and debris getting down the pipe |
| 17 | This time he could almost hear a patient sigh coming down the telephone . |
| 18 | But in essence , the flight instruments are located in random order on the left , the engine instruments are on the right and the radio is in a stack running down the centre . |
| 19 | Not , says UI , to kowtow to any kind of preconditions SunSoft wants UI to meet for the firm to close on the desktop issue , but simply that USL does n't have resources to do all the development work coming down the line . |
| 20 | Xanthe looked out of the taxi windows at the throng swinging down the pavement , the broad plane leaves shifting and the jackets still unfastened , panels loose , in these first mild days of autumn . |
| 21 | By eleven o'clock I was standing in front of Patterson 's desk laying down the law . |
| 22 | I decided to try the Power Tool in two ways : the first using a stack , with the amp set to full shred ; the second with a Vox AC30 on full tilt , but with the Power Tool bringing down the volume to bedroom level . |
| 23 | With a churning , helpless feeling inside , Virginia watched the dark body slicing down the length of the pool in a faultless front crawl . |
| 24 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 25 | Half five in a morning , with the rain going down the back of your bleeding neck , the police set upon you by the owner and the manager , eh , that 'd liven 'em up . |
| 26 | Trev 's Browning skipper Tony Marti said : ‘ We fished a Super League practise session last September and we saw an oil slick coming down the canal then . |
| 27 | The sun penetrates the mist and I am in a world of dazzling light and the rain running down the beech trees is like a tide of green blood and fire , its waves and bubbles sparkling in the sunlight . |
| 28 | In the face of recent doubts surrounding Intel 's future plans for its i860 RISC , Du Pont says it is now under non-disclosure for a new iteration coming down the line — though there 's no hint of silicon just yet . |
| 29 | The magazines of the time carried article after article laying down the law of correct and essential dress in which to be seen on ocean crossings and cruises . |
| 30 | Delaney turned from the rain trickling down the window . |