Example sentences of "[v-ing] down on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Isabel had plenty of spirit , Guy reminded himself , ruthlessly stamping down on the protectiveness the sight of her always seemed to arouse in him . |
| 2 | On her ice cream round she lost her temper , bringing down on the head of the ringleader the entire tray of ice cream . |
| 3 | In course of time McKenzie did just that and the four divers slipped over the side , touching down on the deck of the Delos just over an hour after leaving the Ariadne . |
| 4 | Scott brought his hand crashing down on the desk top , his face pale with rage , the vein at his temple throbbing . |
| 5 | He raises it over his head and brings it crashing down on the back of the man 's head ; once , twice , three times . |
| 6 | Kneeling down on the floor , he picked up an empty cartridge case . |
| 7 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 8 | She saw him flex his ankle and wince , and she stood up and went over to him , kneeling down on the end of one of the sleeping-bags . |
| 9 | These people are afghans … a few of the one million who fled the rockets raining down on the capital city , Kabul . |
| 10 | By analogy with the genetic information raining down on the canal from my willow tree , we could say that the dust carries ‘ instructions ’ for how to dam streams and eventually make more dust . |
| 11 | It could be a break , this is the bone here , supposing there is a break there , pressing down on the brain , that is a head injury , this part here is the bolt by the way and that is a injury to the bolt of the brain , just the top . |
| 12 | The stool was built into the set and was triggered by pressing down on the foot-rest . |
| 13 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 14 | Hours of bending and stretching and twisting down on the prom in singlets and shorts while the wind whipped over us from the wintry sea . |
| 15 | The sharp sound of Sister Mary 's hand banging down on the square of writing paper stopped the chanting . |
| 16 | Mr Abello was the fourth-ranking person in the Medellin cartel and the most important suspect arrested since Colombia began cracking down on the cocaine barons nearly two months ago , the department said . |
| 17 | Thatched umbrellas and deck-chairs are provided for sunbathing down on the beach . |
| 18 | There was absolutely no point in having two hundred people perched up on the road looking down on the top of a marquee . |
| 19 | Now find yourself as that cloud , looking down on the landscape , seeing the stream and the large tree . |
| 20 | These attitudes included looking down on the pursuit of trade and commerce as somewhat inferior socially . |
| 21 | Fine views can be had looking down on the north side of the island to Porto da Cruz and the Penha d'Aguia ( the enormous flat-topped rock ) which stands between Faial and Porto da Cruz . |
| 22 | Looking down on the land over seven miles below from the lofty heights where jet streams vaporize behind you , it was hard to imagine the difficulties the old man must have faced . |
| 23 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 24 | I used to wonder just what the kestrel was looking at , what it was thinking , and I 'd imagine how wonderful it must be to be suspended in mid-air , looking down on the Earth as it was . |
| 25 | It is built across the Via Sacra at its summit , looking down on the Forum Romanum . |
| 26 | They hung there in the sky like faces of fire looking down on the island , like something waiting . |
| 27 | He dwells in a high tower looking down on the metropolis and can often be seen flying high above it on his War Griffon Stormwing . |
| 28 | I am looking down on the world , but it does not stretch away over nebulous distant horizons . |
| 29 | To compare models such as those shown in Fig. 5a with the observations shown in Fig. 4 , it is necessary to make a transformation from what one would observe looking down on the plane to the ( l , v ) plot observed from our position in the plane . |
| 30 | Slowly , she mounted the stairs and went into her room and , sinking down on the bed , she began to weep . |