Example sentences of "[v-ing] down [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his two years in charge , he was responsible for the replacement as manager of Billy Bingham by Gordon Lee , stepping down for personal reasons after a comparatively short spell . |
| 2 | Pipe Major John K McAllister is stepping down after 45 years service and Pipe Major George McFetridge after 35 years . |
| 3 | It was coloured in cement and grey , its slate roof dull with moss , great jagged lengths of cornice hanging down like broken fingers from its brow . |
| 4 | Implementation is for planning and installing hardware and software , producing documentation and training , a handover to new systems and winding down of old systems . |
| 5 | Due to be replaced next year by a huge new hi-tech complex , the original Cerruti mill is winding down after 110 years in production . |
| 6 | How the Queen is cracking down on young Royals |
| 7 | As looking down from great heights brings the urge to fall and end the terror of falling , so his very watching put pressure on them to make a slip as they dried and stacked the plates and cups . |
| 8 | He could see the long walkway below him , the small iron gates at each end with steps leading down to both sides of the house . |
| 9 | And now the Enstrom was rattling above the towers and spires of Cambridge , and they could see the shining curve of the river , the bright autumnal avenues leading down through green lawns to miniature hump-backed bridges , King 's College Chapel upturned and slowly rotating beside its great striped square of green . |
| 10 | By lying down for twenty minutes each day you can prevent this from happening . |
| 11 | Dragons can lie for dark centuries brooding over their treasures , bedding down on frozen flames that will never see the light of day . |
| 12 | The sales patter flowed as freely as the corporate wine , but how well was it going down with potential investors … |
| 13 | The agile and fleet-footed Salmond showed little sign of the calf injury sustained in a recent football match and which required 18 stitches , but unfortunately only the two debutants , Love ( 14 ) and Stuart Kennedy ( 10 ) , gave the Arbroath player any support , the last five wickets going down for 32 runs . |
| 14 | ‘ Or perhaps you would like me to inveigle her out of her self-imposed purdah and come up here instead of you going down to Four Winds . ’ |
| 15 | The Hurricane lost it and flew round for five minutes , going down to 400 feet above the water to avoid appearing on the radar screens on nearby Italian-occupied islands . |
| 16 | An expression still in use today ‘ going down like nine pins ’ probably relates to the 1783 tailors and the nine pins used in this game . |
| 17 | I for one was heartened to see us just going out there and enjoying ourselves , despite going down by eight goals to one . |
| 18 | Wirral still await a first win but battled hard against Caldy before going down by two wickets in the last over . |
| 19 | Another Coral made an encouraging seasonal debut last month when going down by seven lengths to Tipping Tim at Cheltenham — a race in which he also finished second last year — and is now 11lb better off with that rival . |
| 20 | Since the major component of auditors ' costs — the salaries bill — is going down in many firms , it is not unnatural that the audit fees themselves are also reducing . |
| 21 | White our colour , the colour of limbo : white sands , white rocks , a white light pouring down from all sides . |
| 22 | These seemed to arise from the process of urbanization , the breaking down of traditional practices , and what was seen as a conflict between the old morality and the new . |
| 23 | They did n't want to be press barons , says Miles , they wanted a community paper , and it had n't even been easy to find an editor amongst the founding group , preoccupied as they were with art galleries and bookshops , theatre companies and poetry , and preoccupied also with that sense of freedom , and the breaking down of national barriers which had accompanied the explosion of travel in the 1960s . |
| 24 | His view was that the breaking down of large organizations was delayed only by the political power of European governments and workers ' movements . |
| 25 | Slowing down at all corners and giving way to pedestrians . |
| 26 | However , if we also add the timings of such movements from two more manuscripts of Lalande motets , F-Pn , H387 , a reduced score of the Miserere a grand choeur ( illus.4 ) , and F-Pn , Rés. 1363 , a reduced score of Dominus regnavit , both being copies apparently dating from the 1740s and probably prepared for the Concert Spirituel , we begin to notice the familiar syndrome of some slowing down in some tempos , compared with those of the earlier H400D . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'd best be getting down to those hens of the old lady 's , ’ he said to Philip . |
| 28 | It 's been a good four years for me to lay low , because they 've changed the stuff so many times and they now seem to be getting down to some conclusions about MIDI and stuff . |
| 29 | Anyway , he sees this fat cunt with some of his mates with some tea — and he 's moved along a bit to the end and he 's pissing down and out through the open bit and its all blowing down on these cunts ’ heads and into their |
| 30 | I live in hope that the Institute will be clamping down on such practices , although I fear that this will increase the cost of an audit for the smaller business . |