Example sentences of "[verb] down at her [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he lifted his head , gazed down at her stunned face , her bruised and swollen mouth , his measured gaze was brilliant with banked-down emotion . |
| 2 | He gazed down at her troubled face . |
| 3 | She looks down at her shopping-and-memo list , to find a nearer focus . |
| 4 | Alexandra prised herself reluctantly out of the chair and stood looking down at her Great Aunt . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh dear , ’ murmured Julia , looking down at her baggy tweed coat and skimpy straight skirt . |
| 6 | She stood up , hating her own weakness , and he stepped forward so that he was directly in front of her , frowning down at her troubled face . |
| 7 | as if sensing that she had given up fighting him for the present , fitzAlan released her immediately , frowning down at her distraught face . |
| 8 | She did n't see Travis lift his head to look down at her sleeping form , nor the strange little smile that twisted his lips before he lay down again , tucking her body closely into the warmth of his . |
| 9 | By then some of the hurt had lessened and he was able to look down at her scrawly handwriting and think : so she made it . |
| 10 | Isabel glanced down at her injured finger . |
| 11 | Roman glanced down at her still figure , his face in shadow . |
| 12 | He glanced down at her flushed face in its frame of wild hair . |
| 13 | Alain looked more grim than ever , but his looks softened as he glanced down at her white face . |
| 14 | She glanced down at her magnificent dress and the rich emerald jewellery glistening on her hands and throat , her mother 's favourite gems . |
| 15 | He stared down at her semi-nude body . |
| 16 | It amazed her , as she stared down at her right hand , that , while loving Naylor with every part of her being , she could have lashed out at him so violently . |
| 17 | He stared down at her upturned face , her soft pink lips parted on a gasp . |
| 18 | She used to walk with two sticks , but fell down at her 90th birthday party when she stumbled over a low table and broke her hip again . |
| 19 | Marion sipped her punch and looked down at her new dress . |
| 20 | She blurted it out quite innocently and he stood and looked down at her upturned face . |
| 21 | He looked down at her flaming hair and beige , naked body and whispered , ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 22 | There was just feeling , wild and deep , intense pleasure that even bordered on pain , and Maggie 's head was on his shoulder , her eyes locked with his when he at last raised his head and looked down at her bewitched face . |
| 23 | Marion looked down at her low-heeled patent leather pumps and sighed . |
| 24 | Stirring it around herself , she looked down at her long body , noticing how her illness had removed the last spare flesh . |
| 25 | As he looked down at her sleeping face , sucking contentedly on her thumb , he swore that he would commit murder if it kept his family as happy as they were now . |
| 26 | She looked down at her empty plate , wanting to probe , but reluctant at the same time to seem too inquisitive — to breach , even slightly , the warmth of their newly fledged accord . |
| 27 | Lou looked down at her left hand with a wistful expression , as if picturing the jewel on her own finger . |
| 28 | He suddenly stopped teasing and looked down at her lovely face as she rested against his shoulder . |
| 29 | She sat very upright and looked down at her green lap and the bronze toes of her boots , and the brown silk handbag on a gilt chain which contained a handkerchief , a phial of sal volatile and some of Aunt Emily 's calling cards in a mother of pearl case , since she had none of her own . |
| 30 | He looked down at her angry face and burst into laughter . |