Example sentences of "be [v-ing] down for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's surprising how much louder they seem to get when you 're bedding down for the night . |
| 2 | Cos when you 're sitting down for ages |
| 3 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 4 | Thousands of firms are closing down for Christmas , according to the survey by Income Data Services . |
| 5 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 6 | I 'm going down for a week from 10 May to see many of them . |
| 7 | ‘ Jackie , you do n't understand , I 'm going down for the big one . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm going down for another , ’ shouts Pa over the howl of the cleaner . |
| 9 | I 'm going down for that job ! |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm coming down for a night , ’ said Louise . |
| 11 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 12 | It was less bad than the one before , but I could n't tell if they were dying down for good or if this were the prelude to something else . |
| 13 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 14 | We were slowing down for lunch and lack of fitness , and after traversing 200 feet of horizontal ridge and tricky gendarmes , we found a terrace in the sun below the final flawless tower and sucked on soggy oranges . |
| 15 | The housemaid said to me that the daughter and son-in-law were coming down for Easter ( I 've often had a laugh over this ) ; and she said : |
| 16 | Others , their duties finished , were settling down for the night on their pallets in front of the fires . |
| 17 | he 's applied to the Metropolitan police , he 's going down for an interview in June |
| 18 | Perhaps we should not be surprised that Parliament is closing down for so long . |
| 19 | When he 's settling down for a sleep … |
| 20 | ONE WAR WAS WINDing down for a while , not ending , because they never end . |
| 21 | ‘ Quick , Sammy , what about the information he was writing down for Jim ? ’ |
| 22 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |
| 23 | At dusk , passing through the countryside , everything was slowing down for the night . |
| 24 | It was coming down for her . |
| 25 | It seems to me that this is something on which er not en passant but within the flow of his report Dr Stuart mentioned something of great importance and I was jotting down for myself , by way of aide memoire , membership , Madagascar , ministry of the whole people of God , three Ms as it were . |
| 26 | You imagine what the guy was putting down for his fourteen thousand pound booklet . |
| 27 | Around me the camp was settling down for the night , bricks securing groundsheets , tent flaps tied tight , kerosene lamps hissing away their shadows . |