Example sentences of "[v-ing] down from a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking down from a height of ten or twelve feet , she saw an old friend , the MGM lion . |
| 2 | 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) ) . |
| 3 | The A.832 now heads south up a wooded ravine , rising pleasantly to open country , the latter section of the climb being defaced by a huge water pipe coming down from a reservoir above : a black mark for the planners and water authorities . |
| 4 | And then coming down from a point on King Street just to the left of the existing tree , if you can imagine that , and coming back across the marketplace |
| 5 | It began counting down from a starting position of 30:00 . |
| 6 | The whooping and laughing boys carried her back to the village , her head dangling down from a branch slotted between her feet . |