Example sentences of "[v-ing] down [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , this makes all her high moral stances and her bonny sights of yesteryear come tumbling down like a house of cards . |
| 2 | But it can equally be an ‘ invisible elbow ’ which brings the earth 's precarious ecological balance crashing down like a pile of cans in a supermarket . |
| 3 | Marie , sick and trembling , overwhelmed with fear and guilt at her own actions , was already kneeling down with a dustpan and brush , sweeping up the broken glass from the tomato-sauce bottle that had been on the table . |
| 4 | ‘ You always leave your hair hanging down like a hippy too , ’ he continued . |
| 5 | Driving down in a Glory ? ’ |
| 6 | They used to do that : the chief inspector walking down on a Saturday morning in full regalia and one of these fellows would nod and they 'd always walk to the corner , and the Chief would n't say anything about it because they were on the corner and not causing any obstruction . |
| 7 | ONE WAR WAS WINDing down for a while , not ending , because they never end . |
| 8 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 9 | The deep rumbling of the explosions dying down to a hissing of falling dust , everything grew quiet , and the twenty or so survivors collapsed against a low wall to get their breath back . |
| 10 | Willie gazed at the gentle way he fingered the udders and at the warm white liquid spurting down into a bucket underneath . |
| 11 | The awful thought that he might come wandering down in a daze and be seen , made her turn cold . |
| 12 | The Spanish reporter , Alfonso Roja , describes a woman in Baghdad , her eyes smouldering , shouting down at a crowd of Western journalists : ‘ Is this what you call Western civilisation ? ’ |
| 13 | To his relief he found he was above the trees and looking down into a murkiness that was beginning to map itself below him into defined and recognizable shapes . |
| 14 | Here stood the little house looking down through a frame of brown granite to the plain below . |
| 15 | We were at the rear of a crowd hundreds strong looking down upon a scene of devastation : shanties burnt and smouldering , shanties still burning , pouring forth black smoke . |
| 16 | In the north-west corner , four different birds are nesting in close company — the mute swan regally aloft on its large and bulky nest , looking down upon a coot nesting nearby in lesser estate , with two nests of great crested grebes almost awash amongst the reeds close by . |
| 17 | Looking down from a height of ten or twelve feet , she saw an old friend , the MGM lion . |
| 18 | She was sinking down into a dream , aware only of the warmth of his body wrapped intimately against her own . |
| 19 | Towards the end of each session when clients are setting themselves homework tasks , make a point of writing down on a piece of paper , in specific terms , what it is they are supposed to do . |
| 20 | I took a quick breath of relief as I heard it ; the engine of another boat , throttling down to a murmur as she crept into the bay . |
| 21 | I was aware of the fact that there had been what seemed like 20 people working in the office and then it was suddenly dwindling down to a skeleton staff . |
| 22 | I asked what was the oldest part of the farm and was shown a flagstone path leading down to a valley . |
| 23 | They were standing in a narrow hall , with a bicycle propped against one wall and stairs leading down to a basement . |
| 24 | Potted shrubs of sombre green flanked a flight of broad , shallow rockfoam steps leading down to a doorway covered by thick curtains of the darkest purple . |
| 25 | A few feet south of the CBR entrance was a side entrance to the hotel leading down to a beer parlour on one side and the spacious Hotel Cafeteria on the other . |
| 26 | Such rifts are said , therefore , to have a half-graben structure with the main boundary listric fault forming a footwall , and the opposing downwarped crust forming a hanging wall leading down from a roll-over zone ( Fig. 4.9(B) ) . |
| 27 | I 'd like to stay lying down for a bit to make my headache go away , but I made a puddle on the pavement and I got to move . |
| 28 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |
| 29 | Five pirates were on their feet , and another man was lying down with a head wound . |
| 30 | Finch had picked up some Arabic and heard the interpreter translating the image into a metaphysical one about a camel ( whichever is a camel ) lying down with a camel ( whichever is a camel ) . |