Example sentences of "[vb past] down [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The windows of the five-storey buildings , with ornate wrought-iron balconies , peered down condescendingly at the passers-by , smug in their classic mantles of ivy and flowering creepers . |
| 2 | This was the final straw for Mrs B who broke down completely at the thought that her daughter could still think of her mother when this horrible thing was happening to her . |
| 3 | He looked down angrily at the man who had been so uselessly injured . |
| 4 | She looked down miserably at the table-top ; then looked up again as Morse elaborated : |
| 5 | Now she smiled down faintly at the jungle below the crystal windows of the suite as if remembering home — though that day the really deadly jungle was within the city , not without . |
| 6 | She sat down again at the table and worked on steadily . |
| 7 | Irene sat down heavily at the table . |
| 8 | She was walking now with a stick and as she sat down heavily at the table she seemed depressed . |
| 9 | The young man sat down readily at the table , leaning his homespun elbows at ease ; and Julian , without being bidden , came forward noiselessly and filled a cup for him . |
| 10 | This time when he came back in to see her , the air was darkest around his form , but when he grinned over the noise of the men in the room behind the door — a woman 's laugh punctured the air beyond — and he sat down peaceably at the foot of her bed , the blue paled to a translucence like a robin 's egg . |
| 11 | Her problem behaviour was specific to family lunch at weekends and holidays , the only occasions when the whole family sat down together at the table . |