Example sentences of "he [verb] [been] [v-ing] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike lowered the can of Coke which he 'd been emptying down his parched throat . |
| 2 | He had been looking down into her face , lit by the candle he carried , but some sound had turned his eyes to the back of the hall . |
| 3 | But he found that the job that awaited him there was several rungs lower than the job he had been holding down in the UK . |
| 4 | No answer suggested itself , however , and after a minute or two he became aware that as these thoughts whirled through his mind he had been staring down at the grilles confining the Chinese coolie families . |
| 5 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |