Example sentences of "[v-ing] down at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To its horror it will find itself slipping and sliding , tumbling down at the mercy of its foes . |
| 2 | Court Four of the Royal Courts of Justice in London was packed with judges and barristers to hear the support lent to Lord Lane , who announced in February that he was stepping down at the age of 73 , 18 months before the compulsory retirement age for judges . |
| 3 | Two days later Horst Teltschik ( CDU ) announced that he would be stepping down at the end of the year as Kohl 's foreign policy adviser at the Chancellery . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've all got to share , ’ she said , as they passed through the swing doors and found themselves looking down at the courtyard of the Museum . |
| 5 | I was still looking down at the girl in the grass . |
| 6 | Looking down at the top of Joe 's balding pate , Michael listened to the haunting childish voice and could have cried . |
| 7 | For nearly a minute he said nothing and I had the sense to keep quiet , too , looking down at the top of his head . |
| 8 | Hal Shepherd stood at the turn of the road , his hands resting lightly on the low stone wall , looking down at the row of cottages and the bay beyond . |
| 9 | Looking down at the reflection of the stars in the still , calm sea below , she said softly , ‘ I 'm glad we came up here . |
| 10 | Craig Grenfell stood on the hilltop looking down at the scene in the graveyard below . |
| 11 | She 'll go up to you and she goes she looks at you like that and her eyes are all wide , sh sh she 's looking down at the wall like that to make sure it 's all clear , you know what I mean ? |
| 12 | Again she was silent for a moment or two , looking down at the carpet of tawny beech leaves , debris of the previous autumn , now shimmering in the dappled shafts of light which struggled through the tree canopy . |
| 13 | But now he trod carefully across the carpet to the bed and stood silently looking down at the body of Berowne . |
| 14 | And she stood looking down at the key in her hand , while she said to herself , ‘ Well , this seems to decide it , does n't it ? ’ and turning , she yelled , ‘ Ben ! ’ |
| 15 | Looking down at the curve of her cheekbone , still wet with tears , he suddenly wanted her , quite overwhelmingly . |
| 16 | I stood looking down at the pavement below the payphone while Dennis padded across the wall-to-wall carpeting and called distantly to his wife . |
| 17 | He was looking down at the pavement outside the house . |
| 18 | Looking down at the face of her lover , she smiled , daring to trace the line of his profile with a tender finger . |
| 19 | Peering down at the ground between his feet , John saw the box , its lid stamped ‘ J.M. ’ in sharp Roman capitals by a pal in the dye-works across the road . |
| 20 | Shivering at the table and peering down at the paper under the stumpy candle I allowed myself to wander off the straight path through the dark trees . |
| 21 | They all used to hang out there and quite a scene had developed Some of it had to do with it being the antithesis of the whole trash/sleaze thing that was going down at the start of the seventies . |
| 22 | You know , I mean we 're here , well are you going down at the end of the week or something ? |
| 23 | Avoid complicated thoughts of pulling down at the start of the downswing unless all else fails . |
| 24 | Through the open ceiling panel , which he might easily have climbed out of , had he chosen to number pulling over the desk amongst his previous choice of options , the barrel of a trusty Smith and Wesson was visible , aiming down at the head of his other self . |
| 25 | With a slight nod , Dora directed her glance towards the opposite side of the pool , where Dieter Erdle stood staring down at the water as if engrossed in his own reflection . |
| 26 | There are few more pathetic sights than aggrieved bowlers staring down at the popping-crease after being no-balled , craning neck insinuating that the umpire was in error . |
| 27 | The boy rose to his feet , still gripping the banisters and staring down at the figure in the doorway . |
| 28 | Jumping down at the end of his journey , the driver admitted : ‘ I still have n't got a phone . |
| 29 | ‘ Room service , ’ said the waiter , glancing down at the tip of the silencer he could see pointed at him from through the white cloth covering the lower part of the trolley . |
| 30 | Please do n't side-track me , ’ she said with brisk coolness , glancing down at the notebook in her hand , chewing the end of her pen , and perching on the edge of the desk . |