Example sentences of "be [v-ing] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 2 | ‘ The Klans are toning down the rhetoric to make themselves more palatable to Americans . |
| 3 | Ranchers are tearing down the rainforests to make hamburgers . |
| 4 | Swap too soon and the program takes over and performs some miracle that pulls the ass of the Despot you just abandoned out of the fire and next thing you know the secret police are banging down the doors and hauling you and your family off into the night and oblivion ; the machine thereupon promptly declares itself the winner and it 's back to that fucking cave again . |
| 5 | I , I erm , I was off the west co er on a holiday to the west coast of Ireland and we erm we 're driving down the west coast and there was like some rocks and everything about , so we stopped and , you know , I looked by a rock pools or something , and there 's this and the rock pool is like mini-swimming baths , they were , you know , probably |
| 6 | And I said , everybody can hear when they 're walking down the pavement ! |
| 7 | But if you 're looking down a back entry or something , you ca n't always be there . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're turning down a sum like that ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You take the kid 's word and you 're going down a tunnel , might be a wrong-way tunnel , ’ Nick said . |
| 10 | No , no C and B this time , we 're going down a bit , it 's in your left hand |
| 11 | I was gritting my teeth , thinking , ‘ Thank god we 're going down the 18th . ’ |
| 12 | We 're going down the Swanee if we do n't . |
| 13 | We 're going down the north-west staircase and past the garderobe passage . ’ |
| 14 | And do n't forget we 're going down the fracture clinic Alison ! |
| 15 | You know I would n't cos you 're going down the shops . |
| 16 | So you 're going down the south coast , it 's lovely Guildford 's alright , where they , they 're fucking stuck up bitches ! |
| 17 | He ca n't if you put in , if he thinks everything 's rosy here , he ca n't help you , but in fact you 're going down the swanee , you 're only fooling yourselves . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're slowing down a bit now . |
| 19 | We 're slowing down the traffic ! ’ |
| 20 | You 'd better go now , we 're slowing down the traffic . ’ |
| 21 | So , if you 're popping down a daily aspirin , keep the pop music down too . |
| 22 | Make a comment on stage even , for Christ 's sake , about how sad it is that we 're staring down the barrel of a gun at a fuck of a lot of young corpses , widowed wives and fatherless children ? |
| 23 | Make a comment on stage even , for Christ 's sake , about how sad it is that we 're staring down the barrel of a gun at a fuck of a lot of young corpses , widowed wives and fatherless children ? |
| 24 | They 're chopping down the rain forests . ’ |
| 25 | You 're running down a long silent street . |
| 26 | ‘ They 're putting down the foundations for the bar today , Paul , ’ she told him . |
| 27 | They 've got all this digital equipment and yet they 're standing down the end of a corridor … |
| 28 | They 're laying down the footings for houses and then just leaving them . |
| 29 | Parore had been heading down the leg side — too far , ex-Central Districts keeper Jack Vernon assured me later — and had to change direction . |
| 30 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |