Example sentences of "were [v-ing] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the first grey slivers of dawn were filtering down through the trees , Roger Forester climbed stiffly from his hire car and stood on the track beside it , stretching his sore limbs and trying to beat some warmth into himself . |
| 2 | Sleek towers that were telescoping down into the undercity , leaving great smooth plazas where they had previously reared , chequerboard-patterned spaces with a hint of roof outlines . |
| 3 | When we were driving down from the border towards Beni Abbes , we quaked every time we saw police or soldiers . |
| 4 | At twenty past ten Sandison put his book away and sat back to watch the people who were walking down to the square . |
| 5 | Did n't look very well , we were walking down by the side of the road ! |
| 6 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 7 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 8 | As he watched , more and more were pouring down onto the rope , from the round hole in the ceiling that led to the bell itself . |
| 9 | ‘ Some of the other kids were going down to the Ash Grove later , ’ she complained . |
| 10 | There they were going down to the car . |
| 11 | Amanda had been all enthusiastic even in the rain , saying it was spray in her face and look at the gulls , which were swooping down on the shoal of crisp packets and orange peel trailing in the wake . |
| 12 | On the far bank white oxen were coming down to the water . |
| 13 | and it went up into those they were coming down in the minibus and er we stopped so the I ca n't remember where we stopped . |
| 14 | They were coming down from the Quarry , bigger engines . |
| 15 | ‘ Coming sir , ’ they both trilled , and soon we were sitting down at the dining table in a corner of the living-room . |
| 16 | Only when they were sitting down in the chop-house and Dr Neil had ordered them soup and rolls , followed by lamb chops with seasonal vegetables , and a glass of red wine each — ‘ Good for your shattered nerves , ’ he said gravely — and they were waiting for the soup to arrive did Sally-Anne have time to look about her . |
| 17 | Readers were settling down to the novel 's opening instalment — not a venture to be recommended for ‘ people with weak nerves ’ remarked Strakhov , the gifted critic — when a murder story broke in the newspapers . |
| 18 | The great boom of the war years had passed and the docks were settling down to the post war doldrums . |
| 19 | Others , their duties finished , were settling down for the night on their pallets in front of the fires . |