Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening in mid-April , Dr Jaffery and I were walking down the Chandni Chowk heading towards the doctor 's rooms in the Ghazi-ud-Din Medresse . |
| 2 | Instead I was looking down the quay to where a pathetically thin girl was walking beside a smartly dressed woman . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I was dragged down the hard , concrete steps on to the pavement . |
| 5 | There I was strolling down the scrubby end of the Kings Road , mooching along . |
| 6 | Dad said I should wait until it stopped snowing so hard , so I watched from the window , and before very long it did ease and I was sent down the cellar for the fuel . |
| 7 | On that occasion , I was moving down a long , straight road with wide meadows on either side of me . |
| 8 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 9 | Inside I was guided down a weird stairway and told at one point to watch my step carefully . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Take-off time arrived and the oil temperatures were still somewhat below the criteria , but I opened the throttles and very shortly the tail was up and I was heading down the short runway into a brisk headwind , pointing straight for the little pub outside the camp that had become a second home for us . |
| 12 | Next morning I was driving down the single village street when I saw Mrs Bailes coming out of the shop . |
| 13 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 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 . |