Example sentences of "[verb] down at [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Thus tree rings are differentiated by the types , density and size of cell laid down at different times of the year ; varves by the gradation in particle size resulting from sedimentation of debris released into rivers and carried to lakes by the annual melt of glaciers ; and ice core layers by differences in dust content and acidity .
2 Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time .
3 THE case must be made again for judges to stand down at 70 years of age .
4 He was seen to bend down at two drains near his home .
5 Dyson sat pouting and rubbing his hands together , glaring down at various parts of the table .
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