Example sentences of "[pron] be [v-ing] down [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm tracking down something called the Presley hoard . ’ |
| 2 | I feel like I 'm falling down something dark . |
| 3 | Yeah , I 'm coming down yours about half seven . |
| 4 | I 'm not coming on anywhere , I 'm sitting down I 'm having a rest Mummy 's having a rest . |
| 5 | Well , tell him it 's kind of him to agree to let me stay here , but I 'm turning down his invitation . ’ |
| 6 | As I was putting down my swab , it went again , straightaway . |
| 7 | ‘ 'E came in when I was turning down 'is bed , ’ she volunteered , curtsying to Rose in fright , somewhat muddled between his ranking and that of the Prince of Wales . |
| 8 | It is not only the countries of the Community who are scaling down their military spending : as the USSR itself moves away from the military base of its economy , we should seek ways of working together over arms conversion . |
| 9 | ‘ They 'll think that you are running down your own children . ’ |
| 10 | Similarly when you are sitting down you should try and keep a fairly straight back . |
| 11 | ‘ While you 're brushing down your overcoat , Anne , Christine and I will go and look at the tree and see if we can climb up to the apples . ’ |
| 12 | I , I 'm not understanding when you 're doing plus plus when you 're writing down yourself . |
| 13 | ‘ Haughty , ’ he contradicted , ‘ as though you 're looking down your nose at us lesser mortals . ’ |
| 14 | That excuses my question , like you 're going down your priorities , you take , and in the low branches , we still have the same old jobs to do , there 's the stocktaking , X thousands of pounds . |
| 15 | I 'm wondering if she 's saying down you know , like cos they fall down she saying up , and then she 's damn . |
| 16 | Some stairs , and then around a corner where a staff pay phone hung under a grey plastic hood on the wall , and she was looking down what she guessed had to be the dressing-room corridor . |
| 17 | Her glance travelled to Hawkins who was putting down his mug and standing up . |
| 18 | I was as a man who was pulling down his house upon the head of his wife and children , yet thought I , I must do it , I must do it . ’ |
| 19 | So if we could collect it all up together and when we are going down we could take the whole lot down out of the way . |
| 20 | So we thought essentially really we 're slimming down our own local manifesto . |
| 21 | ‘ Then when we were sitting down he kept trying to stand on my foot . ’ |
| 22 | I think when we were walking down you know in co in Compesso |
| 23 | When they do n't have enough time , teachers know , even if they are fairly successful at not thinking about it , that in some way or other they are letting down their pupils , their colleagues or themselves . |
| 24 | Oh my dear some of them are comparing you with Racquel Welsh or whatever , you know you get the impression they 're looking down their nose , as much to say oh how dreadful for me to have to be seen with this old person ! |
| 25 | And the , there 's a crying need for the for nurses in the hospitals and wards and the , and they sort of they 're cutting down you know , on the hospital programme closing wards er , not employing nurses when they need them you know , and they 're trying to get |
| 26 | they were going down our front lawn then down the , then down then down the roadway , cos it 's a dead end you see , so there 's not much , not much traffic |
| 27 | So I got out the car and I went over and I , turned it down , as it were turning down I saw it was n't pouring just out the tap , it was also pouring from the |
| 28 | If it 's breaking down lots of food , a really heavy meal , then it 's actually maybe making such a big demand on the oxygen level in your bloodstream that your oxygen level in your bloodstream drops and there 's not enough to go round the muscles to make to break up any lactic acid that 's being formed . |
| 29 | But if it 's belting down it could be a different story . ’ |
| 30 | Yo oh just a minute , it 's dripping down your chin . |