Example sentences of "[vb pp] down at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highlight of the Festival for us was really the International Violin Competition , which went on all day for 4 days ; 28 competitors played three different programmes , the ‘ survivors ’ being whittled down at each stage . |
| 2 | People are always being Healed down at the church . |
| 3 | Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all . |
| 4 | In the classical theory of general relativity one can not predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity . |
| 5 | As an overall thing we probably take about a hundred and fifty phone calls every day from policy holders , and I suppose out of that you I suppose you people that have n't erm have broken down at the side of the road will ring up or something . |
| 6 | He had stared down at her , grinning vacuously ; from time to time the smile would be replaced by a frown , and the Dalek Killer would demand the return of his chainsword , Ace was patient with him , but not affectionate . |
| 7 | She had stared down at him , feeling the hard disdain radiating from his muscular body and trying not to give way to the sheer physical power of the man . |
| 8 | I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me . |
| 9 | True to his word , Tom Warner had located an immense 8-wheeled transcontinental locomotive , not yet cooled down at the divisional changing point , assembled a crew of engineer and fireman , loaded the engine with coal and water , and attached the engine to the Divisional Superintendent 's own private railway coach . |
| 10 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 11 | How many times have you sat down at your machine and thought ‘ I do n't think I can cope with this ’ and within the next five minutes all the knitting has been on the floor ? |
| 12 | Its Toraja driver had left the job to the attendants , and had sat down at our warong for a meal , when I witnessed a carelessly tossed cigarette-butt from a passing cyclist ignite the concrete floor surrounding the pump and the petrol-truck with flickering blue flames , like those on a Christmas pudding . |
| 13 | But to this day he had not once sat down at a table prepared by Beth , and both she and David knew only too well that it was a deliberate snub . |
| 14 | In fact , much so-called juvenile water is probably either rainwater that has circulated to great depths , or water that was trapped in rocks that have been carried down at subduction zones ( see Inside Science , No. 6 , 23 February 1988 ) . |
| 15 | Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it . |
| 16 | Have you ever been speaking to someone , perhaps an attractive member of the opposite sex , when , without thinking , you 've looked down at their mouth ? |
| 17 | She must have looked down at the dog , and seen the blood stain and the tear on his trouser . |
| 18 | She was reassured when he suddenly looked down at her and winked appreciatively . |
| 19 | looked down at her feet as she walked , finally admitted , a little ashamedly , that it was all true ; " I was wild , " she agreed in her slow , low voice , nodding , Graham felt a sort of ache then , as he had when Slater first told him ; he wanted to have known her then , to have been a part of her life during that time . |
| 20 | And , not quite sure how to take that , Ellie hastily looked down at the quilt the woman was folding . |
| 21 | Both looked down at her . |
| 22 | The way he 'd looked down at her breasts so suddenly in that lift … oh , God , it made her tremble with heat and excitement just to remember it . |
| 23 | He had actually slumped down at the breakfast table before he became aware of Kelly 's presence . |
| 24 | Then there is the matter of the French Cheddar ( not to be confused with an unidentified English cheese known for generations to the French public as Chester ) now being made down at Castres in the Tarn department of the Languedoc . |
| 25 | just as he wanted them , there was real oldy-worldy and the kitchen furniture was made down at Buckfastely in Devon and that was all re-claim pine |
| 26 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
| 27 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 28 | The music was turned down at the request of a fat man who was actually trying to sleep through all the noise . |
| 29 | Soon-Yi , a student , was tracked down at her college in New Jersey and asked whether she and Woody planned to marry . |
| 30 | Lt. Mietusch reported engaging eight Hurricanes , one of which he claimed shot down at 1845 , the pilot baling out . |