Example sentences of "down on [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even Ataturk is described as resembling ‘ an Aryan Dracula … in a black dinner-jacket , peering down on me with heavy eyebrows , a widow 's peak of blond hair indicating a mixed Macedonian birth ’ . |
| 2 | looks down on me from blackest space : |
| 3 | She treated him as a malnourished curiosity , swooping down on him with tender cluckings , and seductive titbits — a crab claw , a lychee , a chocolate truffle — asking him to describe God , or Heaven , or sin , treating him as a confessional , trying to dress him up as a cardinal , showing him off to her friends . |
| 4 | But Rohmer had to know the answer to the questions that had fascinated and intrigued him for so long ; the questions that bore down on him with ever-increasing force during the drug-induced hallucinatory periods that were now so frequent in his life . |
| 5 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 6 | But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series . |
| 7 | But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series . |
| 8 | They travelled all that day without a break , and for most of the time the sun beat down on them with fiery intensity . |
| 9 | He pulled the net aside and looked down on her with greedy eyes . |
| 10 | ‘ The full weight of the Children 's Department came down on us for that scene and , in retrospect , I realised I had made a mistake letting that go through . |