Example sentences of "[v-ing] down for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's surprising how much louder they seem to get when you 're bedding down for the night . |
| 2 | At dusk , passing through the countryside , everything was slowing down for the night . |
| 3 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 4 | She sat again at the dinner table and saw in the candlelight Hilary Robarts 's dark , discontented eyes staring intently at Alex Mair ; watched the planes of Miles Lessingham 's face fitfully lit by the leaping flames of the fire , saw his long-fingered hands reaching down for the bottle of claret , heard again that measured rather high voice speaking the unspeakable . |
| 5 | In short , someone who is , as it were , drinking well now and well worth laying down for the future . ’ |
| 6 | Others , their duties finished , were settling down for the night on their pallets in front of the fires . |
| 7 | Around me the camp was settling down for the night , bricks securing groundsheets , tent flaps tied tight , kerosene lamps hissing away their shadows . |
| 8 | The old house creaked in its joints like an old dog settling down for the night . |