Example sentences of "[verb] down at [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down at this desk with a ledger . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 5 | THE case must be made again for judges to stand down at 70 years of age . |
| 6 | He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens . |
| 7 | Fallen branches littered the rides and new growths of whippy little sapling twigs poked down at head-and-shoulder height to a horseman . |
| 8 | His hands came down at either side of her , trapping her against the wall . |
| 9 | He was seen to bend down at two drains near his home . |
| 10 | Dyson sat pouting and rubbing his hands together , glaring down at various parts of the table . |
| 11 | From the parking area above , you can easily walk down at either end of the crag , but it 's much more fun to follow the path leftwards and make a free 25 metres abseil through the blow-hole in the roof of the enormous cave of Baume Percée . |
| 12 | This precipitated out the dextran which was spun down at 3500 rpm at 4°C for 10 minutes . |
| 13 | Gooch , though , England 's loyal and reliable banker , went for his second modest score of the match , a choker of a dismissal in that he was held down at second slip at 3.43pm , three minutes into interval time . |
| 14 | Jannie sat down at one corner of the great kitchen table and began to write a shopping list . |