Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started to sit up , seeking her face , but she was already moving down the bed , and moments later he felt her lips on his stomach , and then upon the head of his cock , which she took into her mouth by degrees , her tongue playing on it as she went , until he thought he would lose control . |
| 2 | By 9.30am yesterday morning , an hour after 90-year-old Gene Sarazen had bisected the first fairway with an open-ceremonial drive , a stain of sweat was already running down the spine of Gary Wolstenholme 's golf shirt as he tried to make head and tail of the practice putting green . |
| 3 | She was already running down the beach , calling : ‘ Come on , Christina ’ , her voice all but drowned by the crashing waves . |
| 4 | She was just pushing down the lid and trying to close the catches with fumbling fingers when the door swung open . |
| 5 | The US factories had evolved into organisations that set out tightly circumscribed jobs , fixed procedures , absolutely nothing in terms of flexible working , multi-skilling , employee responsiveness — any of those sorts of things — and they took a look at Japanese cost patterns and thought that American industry was just going down the plug . ’ |
| 6 | They stood aside to make way for a blind Indian youth in a parka who was confidently striding down the way with his cane held out before him . |
| 7 | However , if his quest was originally to break down the stranglehold of the rock system , would he have settled for such a four-square format ? |
| 8 | I could n't get a knee up to break its back , either , because I was almost slipping down the slope as it was , and I could n't possibly get any purchase on that surface with only one leg . |
| 9 | Then , while Leith was again holding down the urge to hit him , and seeing that he 'd prefer not to sack her without just cause — thereby deeply offending his cousin — he had bent and picked up his briefcase . |