Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] [v-ing] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet cave explorers , always indefatigable in their search for holes in the ground , have discovered several apertures in the beds of the streams coming down from Barbon High Fell , many of them admitting to underground passages and caves attained only by arduous effort . |
| 2 | I feel his glare now , but let my own eyes wander past the fence to the yellow lattice of the heavy lifting gear and the big iron disc of the magnet hanging down , and the motorcar-mountain that has built up over the holiday season . |
| 3 | He would have gone straight home but made a short diversion when he found Pike the ditcher drunk as a bishop on the corner of the trackway leading down to the church . |
| 4 | The Doctor ordered Howard to stop the car at the top of the road leading down into the city , weighing up the risks of being attacked by one side or the other . |
| 5 | It was reported that the iron bar erected at the Lanark Road end of the road leading down to the site had been removed . |
| 6 | She heard herself snivelling like a child , and was extremely conscious of the tears rolling down her cheeks as she undressed . |
| 7 | I 'd just like to know ! she whispered to herself , barely aware of the tears sliding down her cheeks . |
| 8 | The deep rumbling of the explosions dying down to a hissing of falling dust , everything grew quiet , and the twenty or so survivors collapsed against a low wall to get their breath back . |
| 9 | In low politics , common opinion — no less common for being expensively hired by Conservative Central Office — encouraged him in the belief that he should fight much of the election sitting down . |
| 10 | Moving on from Port Erin there 's a mountain section over the three summits of Bredda Hill , Lhiattee ny Beinee and Cronk ny Arrey Las with the western sides of the hills falling down into the west side of the island to Point of Ayre there are long sections of lonely beach walks . |
| 11 | The law reports abound with examples of the courts striking down or challenging exercises of discretion for improper purposes . |
| 12 | I had no time to find out , because just then I heard the noise of the drawbridge coming down . |
| 13 | The pilot heard a bang from the engines , followed by the sound of the engines running down in a rough and abnormal manner . |
| 14 | that it came to make the amazing sounds , okay , and then after that , er , this is another thing it leads to is there 's going to be a break down in your sound machine , okay , there 's gon na be a break down in your , in your entire robotic machine , movement in our machine , and that break down could be due to some of the workers going off and getting some of them erm you know , one , er part of the machine breaking down on the whole , sound changes , the movement changes and we 're going to watch how this robotic machine changes as it breaks down , it could be sound shut down it could be it could be anything you choose , but I want it anyway , leave it to you so all you do is choose a profession , think of something that is , comes to life to you , in movement and in sound , okay , so let's get into groups of , see how many they are , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , eighteen , nineteen , twenty , okay let's get into groups of four then , okay is that right , one , two , three , four , one , oh five , four , five , just get your group into a work in , I thank you if you do n't get |
| 15 | The ‘ Secret Service ’ in America began and continues as a branch of the Treasury hunting down counterfeiters largely by undercover means . |
| 16 | For example , as the stick is moved forwards a little , the eyes see the nose of the glider moving down , and the brain expects the sensation and understands what is happening . |
| 17 | You can use it in shrub beds and can plant within days of the weeds dying down . |
| 18 | The industry 's corporate leaders must have laughed demonically to themselves when they saw the full weight of the law coming down on people manufacturing and distributing comparatively harmless drugs , such as marijuana . |
| 19 | Like him , lying underneath that mini … his heart had been going overtime then , thinking of the law closing down on him . |
| 20 | The roar of the water coming down the gully drummed at my ears as I inched the Toyota into the bend . |
| 21 | It was virtually a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and very sharp , the culvert blocked with stone and the remains of a small tree , so that the full volume of the water coming down the gully was swirling across the track to disappear over the edge , thundering down into the main gorge of the Jequetepeque . |
| 22 | Shadows have lengthened stealthily in the course of The Bellarosa Connection , gathering for what Martin Amis described in later Bellow as ‘ last things , leave-taking , and final lucidities ’ , and at the close there is a quietly affecting image of the narrator setting down his story , alone . |
| 23 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 24 | You can feel the heat of the sun beating down on the water as it rocks you . |
| 25 | A collapsing housing market could bring what is left of the economy crashing down . |
| 26 | Holding the tiny china figure in her hand , oblivious of the rain sleeting down , she grinned — and then caught sight of the little girl who had been so determined to find one . |
| 27 | In spite of the rain trickling down our necks , our spirits lifted . |
| 28 | The two men made their way silently along the roof , until they were seated on either side of the skylight looking down into the deserted corridor below . |
| 29 | ‘ Some of us could try the woods on either side of the track leading down to the road — away from the belvedere . ’ |
| 30 | It tilted the lens up and there was a pause while it surveyed the face of the human looking down at it . |