Example sentences of "down [conj] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally , hormonal disturbance , particularly of the thyroid gland , may lead to a slowing down or speeding up of the metabolic rate . |
| 2 | In all the really agricultural villages and parts of the kingdom , there is a shocking decay ; a great dilapidation and constant pulling down or falling down of houses . |
| 3 | Other features like glottal stops , devoicing , slowing down and speeding up before or after pause , etc. , may also cause pronunciation difficulties and require practice . |
| 4 | It takes the way things go instead of just making , yeah , instead of just sitting down and getting on with it . |
| 5 | The redundancies were , the company says , incurred largely by its manufacturing operations , which it is currently scaling down and moving out to a smaller site in Alabama . |
| 6 | Then do various things , like putting your hands in the air , jumping up and down and going round in a circle , until eventually you go back in line . |