Example sentences of "[v-ing] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Thorfinn , looking down the short length of the table to his wife 's cousin opposite , said , ‘ I heard about your wife . |
| 32 | She remembered looking down the sunny garden and feeling content . |
| 33 | And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it . |
| 34 | Fei Yen stood by the window looking down the steep slope towards the terrace and the ornamental lake . |
| 35 | ‘ Between the top of Skiddaw and the Lake of Bassenthwaite the numerous narrow openings are happily described by Housman … ‘ on looking down the profound precipice in almost any direction the eye recoils with horror . |
| 36 | The four men looked up as he came scrambling down the steep bank . |
| 37 | ‘ I 've never seen anything so magnificent , ’ she said , and stared at the water cascading down the three-tier construction . |
| 38 | After writing down the initial equation , we need to rearrange things to get R by itself and defined in terms of what we know — D and T . |
| 39 | Collect the words by writing down the misspelled form , not the correct form . |
| 40 | The Thatcher Governments have been successful in pushing down the relative pay of low-paid workers . |
| 41 | Pushing down the high price of food during a famine is desirable . |
| 42 | The Captain 's men were already clattering down the broad stone staircase , ignoring the slow old li– . |
| 43 | She crossed the stableyard and went into the house , hurrying down the long passage until she arrived , flushed high in expectation , at the service door to the dining room , where Maman and Dada and Aunt Tossie were eating breakfast . |
| 44 | He was hurrying down the long room , with some white gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other hand . |
| 45 | they were lying down the other day |
| 46 | Hewlett-Packard Co is racing down the object-oriented programming road and last week it inaugurated a distributed-object-computing programme that it says will accelerate its efforts to develop and deliver a distributed object computing environment for heterogeneous networked systems . |
| 47 | The first is that of narrowing down the causal relation so as not to include , as being in the same self , mental states that belong to different selves . |
| 48 | Going down the second fairway he told me he 'd lost his yardage book and asked me what I thought his second shot was . |
| 49 | He fell twice , going down the second time across a litter of boxes , and losing the gun . |
| 50 | More designers are going down the locking tuner route and it 's something which I personally welcome ; it does away with that lumpiness at the nut end of the fingerboard and offers up a more traditional look into the bargain . |
| 51 | Growing companies are among those most at risk , she claims , when going down the old-fashioned selection route . |
| 52 | Also going down the lighter weight waterproof path are Mountain Equipment with their new Alpine Suit in Gore-Tex and 2-ply Taslan . |
| 53 | Because once the ship come up that 's still a certain amount of water in the hold which that must be , cos then once you heave your door up then of course you load your ship again and then cos your ship was going down the more mud you put in , course mud is heavier than water |
| 54 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 55 | track , because it it , no other transport business er has er does has to have a business , which op owns both the track it 's operating on and the operating er facilities themselves , so the we 're not doing anything new here , what we are actually doing , and incidentally the German government and other governments are going down the same route now because it 's not true to say that others are n't privatizing , what we 're doing is saying that we are having a separate track authority , and there are a variety of reasons for that , er but the an and that means actually less investment by the franchisee himself , but he will have control over the th the track operations , because he will have a contract , with Rail Track , to deliver certain services , and if Rail Track does n't deliver them then he 's able to claim penalties so |
| 56 | Former England coach Steve Harrison is back at Crystal Palace after turning down the assistant manager 's job at Scottish Premier Division St Johnstone . |
| 57 | Firefighters spent more than eight hours at the scene , damping down the smouldering straw and attempting to discover how the blaze started . |
| 58 | Take-off time arrived and the oil temperatures were still somewhat below the criteria , but I opened the throttles and very shortly the tail was up and I was heading down the short runway into a brisk headwind , pointing straight for the little pub outside the camp that had become a second home for us . |
| 59 | Tilting the head back , aiming accurately and pulling down the lower lid were other areas of difficulty . |
| 60 | Water pouring through into the kitchen water pouring down the electric wire of the lamp in the study ! |