Example sentences of "[verb] down at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , then shook his head in disbelief . |
| 2 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , studying her features as if trying to re-gather his thoughts . |
| 3 | He just stood looking down at her for a moment , his eyes still pleading , and then abruptly he turned and picked up the tray and carried it into the kitchen for her . |
| 4 | He was looking down at her with a superior , amused smile on his face . |
| 5 | ‘ I am ready , ’ he announced , pulling himself to the edge of the pool and looking down at her with no expression on his face to give her any clue about his attitude . |
| 6 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 7 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 8 | ‘ Funny little faces peering down at me through the branches overhead . |
| 9 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
| 10 | He glanced down at her with a slight smile . |
| 11 | Dane glanced down at her with a frown . |
| 12 | Artemis looked up at her father and found him staring down at her with a deep frown , as if to say , Artemis felt , that she should have known . |
| 13 | He was holding her hand and staring down at her with an extraordinary expression on his face that she had never seen before . |
| 14 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 15 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
| 16 | Then the door behind my head jerked open , the car light came on like a flashbulb , and there was a seven-foot black pimp snarling down at me with a mahogany baseball bat in his fist . |
| 17 | He stared down at her for a long moment , his mouth very close to her own . |
| 18 | He stared down at her for a moment , then walked across to the window and began staring outside instead . |
| 19 | He stared down at her for a few seconds , almost as if searching for some clue hidden in her expression . |
| 20 | Hari knocked on the door and after a time it was opened by an elderly lady who stared down at her with a frown . |
| 21 | McKitrick 's house lounged on a maple-strewn ridge , sleek and contemporary , with a gable end sporting one huge circular window that stared down at her like an unblinking eye . |
| 22 | She stared down at it for a long time . |
| 23 | As I write , he nods down at me from the wall beside my desk ; shining brass-reel in place , cast and flies still ready for action , waiting for the last trumpet to sound . |
| 24 | Hari asked softly and Edward looked down at her with a shrewdness that disconcerted her . |
| 25 | Giles looked down at her with a rueful smile . |
| 26 | She had her key ready and he looked down at her for a minute . |
| 27 | As they stood patiently in a doorway waiting for the column to pass , Catherine turned to say something to McLeish and he looked down at her for a long moment . |
| 28 | Nathan looked down at her for a moment , then inclined his head , the movement brief and dismissive . |
| 29 | He looked down at it with a horrified surprise . |
| 30 | The villagers looked down at it with the satisfaction of those who could n't swim and certainly would n't want to try . |