Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | When nailing or screwing down carpet gripper strips , be careful to avoid piercing any water pipes or electricity cables . |
| 2 | As with inspection , the cleaner should be so positioned as to be able to see all areas of the work even if it means squatting , kneeling or lying down . |
| 3 | Here prose has the effect that Leo Spitzer attributed — in my view , wrongly — to verse as a whole in Racine 's drama , that of ‘ Dämpfung ’ , muting or damping down emotions . |
| 4 | As the Zombie progressed , he committed murder after murder , and his victims , rather than dying and lying down , became zombies too , until at the end Winthrop Grange was besieged by a whole army of the walking dead . |
| 5 | Outside AW 's erm , specialists books er , er , markets er , book sales have been almost universally slow there were very high returns as book sellers everywhere reacted to reduced er , demand by replacing or winding down their stock . |
| 6 | Buildings , black as anthracite , were receding or telescoping down , rumbling as they moved , clearing a field for battle . |
| 7 | Corbett bathed in the guest-house 's one and only tub before dressing and going down to the buttery for ale and a bowl of bread and fish boiled in milk . |
| 8 | It had never been intended that the flimsy structure should support such a weighty assembly , so with a creaking and a cracking and much shouting and swearing down it went in a flurry of legs and arms and broken planks and red Australian dust . |
| 9 | Jannie leaned against the edge of the dresser , smoking and looking down at Bob . |
| 10 | Oral tradition played a major part in transmitting and passing down this culture of superstition . |
| 11 | Gareth saying , ‘ What 's the matter , ’ urgently , and then seeing and coming down scared and wide-eyed on his knees beside me . |
| 12 | It was the time of wooden pit props and er much kneeling and laying down and hacking away at the coal with picks and there was no mining machinery as we know it now . |
| 13 | I went back to my handbag to get my nailfile , then returned to where Katrina was kneeling and crouched down beside her . |
| 14 | She instructed Lucien to be careful with his leg , and to exercise the rest of his body only while lying or sitting down for a while . |
| 15 | The trainer then has to decide whether the horse is being rather stubborn and refuses to work because he does not want to or because there is something preventing him from relaxing and settling down . |
| 16 | He claimed he was relaxing and winding down . |
| 17 | Er I do n't suppose they had much time for , for relaxing and sitting down . |
| 18 | Waiting and watching down by the shops — |
| 19 | The only passage I could find which could have referred to him was a section describing a debate during the LSE sit-in when the students were deciding whether to break down a pair of iron gates which lead to the bursar 's office . |
| 20 | It did n't seem to know where to put itself , rising and lying down , kicking at some inward pain , writhing its hindquarters from side to side . |
| 21 | You do n't need the brake lights of the guy in front of you to tell that he 's gon na stop , you 've anticipated that in a minute this guy 's gon na stop so you you 're already er braking and slowing down . |
| 22 | He stopped chiselling and looked down at her . |
| 23 | Get those blue suede shoes moving and get down there fast , we told reporter Aileen Taylor . |
| 24 | If you have just a few bushes , drape individual plants with nets , burying or pegging down the edges during vulnerable periods . |
| 25 | But I thought , sitting there on the side of my bed looking out over the trash-filled street with the sound of the trucks grinding and roaring down the thoroughfare , that He must be something like the sun rising out of the ocean on a cloudless day . |
| 26 | Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else |
| 27 | While in theory multiple images would seem to be a way of enriching the screen 's information , in practice it was usually just distracting and slowed down the narrative speed . |
| 28 | He 'd been glaring and smashing down glasses on the table and muttering under his breath and I wondered what on earth I 'd done to make him so disturbed , and then I realised I had n't done anything . |
| 29 | These foods will make up the calories they are losing when cutting down on their saturated fat intake . |
| 30 | Up to now I have suggested some general strategies for preempting or cooling down quarrels and temper outbursts . |