Example sentences of "[v-ing] down in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A second or two later , everything came crashing down in a big heap on the railway line below . |
2 | There seems little chance of one of the party 's senior professionals stepping down in the next few months to create a by-election for the Tory chairman . |
3 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
4 | I should be inside , Robyn thought , lying down in a darkened room . |
5 | Disconnected , their instrument of memory fails to record anything of those common night-time moments that preceded lying down in the marital bed . |
6 | Erm with chimney sweeper was waiting down in the high street he was waiting there whoa said Mr to the donkey , the donkey was wondering probably whether he was so without listening to a word of warning he jumped on him |
7 | They grew unofficially , here and there , interspersed with beech — which shed its leaves like autumn in the spring , willows , the ballerinas of the forest in a permanent static pirouette , their white seeds drifting down in a slow shower against the blue sky , and the tireless gorse , the popping of its seeds breaking the silence of high summer . |
8 | The most significant change in this respect is the slowing down in the 1980s of the decline in urban populations compared with the previous decade ( Champion , 1987 ) . |
9 | The rain was coming down in a solid curtain . |
10 | ‘ James is coming down in a little while , Christina . |
11 | We were , after all , in the huge personnel carrier area , with pods , shuttles and other small vehicles coming down in a steady stream , every one of them disgorging masked and costumed revellers . |
12 | Now this is a a British lorry coming down in the offside lane , cos it 's only two lanes . |
13 | You 're in the nearside lane and you 're going uphill and er you 're trunking away quite nicely , you see a guy coming down in the fast lane , down the hill getting a bit of a roll on , fully laden , and he gets halfway up the hill , he runs out of steam and he 's looking for a hole to get into . |
14 | The government 's initial failure to hold spending down in the early 1980s was not for lack of trying . |
15 | The pilot heard a bang from the engines , followed by the sound of the engines running down in a rough and abnormal manner . |
16 | Natural gas supplies will begin running down in the twenty-first century . |
17 | As a result , they spend much of their time sitting down in the thick layer of muck which can inflict burns to their hocks and breasts , and they may also develop ulcerated feet . |
18 | They reach a length of 1m ( 39″ ) and are nocturnal , not settling down in a brightly-lit tank . |
19 | We heard them settling down in the next room which until then had been empty . |