Example sentences of "[adj] hair [v-ing] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 2 | With his unkempt ginger hair running down into sideboards it made his hard face look even meaner . |
| 3 | My eyes grew accustomed to the darkness and I glimpsed her dark shape on the bed , her long hair falling down to her shoulders . |
| 4 | His wife lay there so limp , so insubstantial , her black hair hanging down like the tail of a whipped animal and one white hand clutching his sleeve as though it were her only hold on life . |
| 5 | He looked down and saw a man , small , dark , with black hair flowing down to his shoulders , staring up at him . |
| 6 | Foremost among his parishioners were Watkin the dung-collector and his wife , a woman built like a battering ram , hard-faced , with iron grey hair hanging down to her shoulders . |
| 7 | In the heart of the vast city , Daddy again , his brown eyes bright , you could see his sparse hair growing down by the minute into the Hippie pigtail he 'd been too young or too old and always too respectable to wear … |
| 8 | Johanna , however , had become witless , her beautiful hair streaming down about a pallid face , her mouth slack , her eyes vacuous . |
| 9 | When I knocked at another door , it was opened by a tall , thin man , with long , dirty hair hanging down to his shoulders . |