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Example sentences of "was [verb] down [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me .
2	Uncle Albert was struggling down the garden path carrying a heavy shopping bag .
3	He was bellowing down the line like a demented station announcer .
4	They were then made a sign in the store , and if the job came up again , all you did was to go down the store , and it was a one-off exercise , instead of travelling back and forwards to get a particular tool , erm er that was all eliminated .
5	This identity of message was recognized down the line , and had the effect that one would have expected .
6	Sure enough , the battered little red Mini was speeding down the service road , following the same route the ambulance had taken .
7	One day , minding my own business as usual , I was walking down a busy main road in the afternoon when I saw a helmeted security guard standing outside a doorway .
8	One night he was walking down a narrow , dark lane when suddenly , from behind a parked van , a huge man appeared .
9	There was a significant improvement on the other side of the viaduct , a Victorian class divide that had survived the years , and within two blocks he was walking down a tree-lined avenue composed of tall , detached houses set back from the road behind fair-sized gardens .
10	Then his feet were on the stairs and he was walking down the narrow , dark steps , which twisted sharply to the right .
11	Inspector Miskin was walking down the aisle .
12	A gentleman in waiting was walking down the aisle .
13	cub like that with a stick , I know a job about that a blind man coming , a blind man was walking down the pavement with a stick , so on the side of the pavement there 's this dog turd
14	I was ambling down a calm King 's Road to my bus stop outside Peter Jones , almost opposite the flat where Percy Grainger lived , and bought a packet of five Players cigarettes from what was then a seedy little newsagent and tobacconist .
15	In the yard , under the gaze of the assembled passengers , an old man in his underwear , his head wrapped in a towel , was hosing down the inside of our bus .
16	Then she remembered her night-gown was torn down the front where Faith Caskie had ripped it .
17	Some of Kelly 's classmates lost the fight to hold back the tears as soon as her coffin was carried down the aisle .
18	We unlashed the mooring cables almost as the last bag of cement was carried down the gangplank .
19	Next morning I was driving down the single village street when I saw Mrs Bailes coming out of the shop .
20	And tobacco ash was spilt down the front of his evening shirt .
21	A cabin cruiser was chugging down the wide brown river towards that little harbour I 'd seen , and over the other side the bank was so steep that the rows of terraced houses were leaning over each other to get a view .
22	She was wandering down an arcade when she saw the new Tissot boutique .
23	One day when the King was passing down the Thames in his barge , Cranmer , hearing the royal music , came out on Lambeth Bridge to greet him .
24	She was writing down a message when she heard someone come into the room and knew without turning that it was Robert .
25	The small , folded sheets on which he was writing down the things he knew about himself .
26	Noticing my bewilderment , he revealed he was writing down the names of the ‘ bigwigs ’ , as he was finding it difficult to remember them all .
27	A bus was coasting down the avenue and Nutty said , ‘ Quick !
28	Whoever suggested the grandiose title and subtitle of this book was looking down the wrong end of a microscope .
29	Instead I was looking down the quay to where a pathetically thin girl was walking beside a smartly dressed woman .
30	And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it .