Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] down at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You see — we did n't wake the children , after all , ’ Ross drawled , his eyes glinting with amusement as he gazed warmly down at the soft figure in his arms . |
| 2 | He looked thoughtfully down at the white box , Mo 's coffin . |
| 3 | She blinked and looked demurely down at the grey and red carpet which squelched across the floor like a rabbit that had been run over by a lorry . |
| 4 | Karen looked sullenly down at the crazy paving , where a small ant was wending its way homeward with part of a dead butterfly on its back . |
| 5 | She stared unseeingly down at the red stain on the Chester 's blue and green flowered fabric , then gathered her wits to dab at it slowly with her heavy cream damask napkin she took from the table . |
| 6 | Continuing to stand with his back to her , he stared silently down at the muddy green waters of the River Thames for some moments , before turning slowly around to face her . |
| 7 | Afterwards , incongruously dressed in a raincoat , she went to the bows and stared briefly down at the mesmerising onrush of sea where it split and foamed at Wavebreaker 's cutwater . |
| 8 | He gazed briefly down at the new baby , pink in its cradle ; and said nothing . |
| 9 | Standing in front of him , she glared disagreeably down at the tousled brown hair . |
| 10 | Not handsome , but nice-looking in a way I had usually rather deprecated , if not despised : not the lean and craggy looks that I had always admired , but a blunt-featured face with a wide mouth , dark eyes tilted slightly down at the outer corners , and an untidy thatch of brown hair of which a couple of locks fell over a broad forehead , and were from time to time irritably brushed back . |