Example sentences of "and [v-ing] down [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | England 's management turned white when scrum-half Garth Wright drove his pack on the offensive , crushing England on a five metre scrum with Richter picking up and plonking down without hindrance . |
| 2 | Jannie leaned against the edge of the dresser , smoking and looking down at Bob . |
| 3 | Thursday dawned as dully as the day before and Fabia got out of bed and went through the routine of getting showered and dressed and going down to breakfast with a total lack of enthusiasm or appetite . |
| 4 | She had spoken of meeting the following weekend and going down to Juliet 's . |
| 5 | the starting up and slowing down of things . |
| 6 | The overgrazing of livestock and cutting down of brush and trees for firewood are held responsible . |
| 7 | The large-scale hunting of wildlife and cutting down of trees are alien to the African . |
| 8 | A PRODUCT of space programme technology , which had to find a way to recycle astronauts ' air , this ‘ circle absorber ’ is designed to recycle expensive gases exhaled from patient , thus saving money and cutting down on pollution . |
| 9 | They are exercising more , eating more carefully and cutting down on smoking and alcohol ’ . |
| 10 | It 's a neat cheat for filling up — and cutting down on calories . |
| 11 | However , the change in safety regulations and the harder line taken is not sufficient compensation for the curtailing and running down of health and safety inspections , nor the differences in health and safety regulations which exist between companies operating on land , and those , such as contractors on off-shore oil rigs who are at sea . |
| 12 | And er she says like when I think of me keeping her child overnight and all before it 's in hospital and running down to hospital three or four times when he was in the hospital , and taking him sweets and all , and she says she 's treating me like shit . |
| 13 | Then the train went into reverse , motors growling , occupants groaning , and trundled slowly back through the squalls of rain , passing Maryhill and looping down through Anniesland and over Great Western Road . |
| 14 | In their new school , their mother says , the Dungworth boys are ‘ very happy ’ taking spelling tests once a week and sitting down at desks . |
| 15 | And finally , Tuesday night — probably to you , what , a Londoner and playing down in Torquay , the game against Swindon , never taken so much significance , but a very very important game for Oxford United and their followers . |
| 16 | The only hazards , in fact , lay in the presence of pockets of scalding water , and in the possibility of a newly-formed pillow becoming detached from the steep flow front and rolling down on top of them . |
| 17 | Palmer 's first priority is to ‘ reduce unnecessary expense ’ , and further staff cuts and scaling down of manufacturing facilities worldwide are expected . |
| 18 | any motor vehicle standing on a part of a road specially set aside for the parking of vehicles , or as a stand for hackney carriages , or as a stand for public service vehicles , or as a place at which such vehicles may stop for a longer time than is necessary for the taking up and setting down of passengers where compliance with this regulation would conflict with the provisions of any order , regulations or byelaws governing the use of such part of a road for that purpose ; |
| 19 | The hang is by the curator , Tomas Llorens , former artistic director of the Reina Sofía and a specialist in twentieth-century art , and is conventionally chronological , beginning with the thirteenth century on the top floor and working down to Cubism , Surrealism , Pop Art and Neo-Expressionism on the ground floor , with the earlier works , up to German Expressionism , outnumbering modern art by three to one . |