Example sentences of "[v-ing] down [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ridged pasture was falling away in front of Sharpe , sloping down to a long dark oak wood from which a cart track ran north towards a big stone-walled farm that looked like a miniature fort . |
| 2 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 3 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 4 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 5 | They were enjoying the first fresh food they had had in weeks before settling down for a long , well-earned rest . |
| 6 | Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion . |