Example sentences of "[v-ing] down at the [noun sg] of " 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 | Looking down at the top of Joe 's balding pate , Michael listened to the haunting childish voice and could have cried . |
| 6 | For nearly a minute he said nothing and I had the sense to keep quiet , too , looking down at the top of his head . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Looking down at the reflection of the stars in the still , calm sea below , she said softly , ‘ I 'm glad we came up here . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But now he trod carefully across the carpet to the bed and stood silently looking down at the body of Berowne . |
| 11 | Looking down at the curve of her cheekbone , still wet with tears , he suddenly wanted her , quite overwhelmingly . |
| 12 | Looking down at the face of her lover , she smiled , daring to trace the line of his profile with a tender finger . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You know , I mean we 're here , well are you going down at the end of the week or something ? |
| 15 | Avoid complicated thoughts of pulling down at the start of the downswing unless all else fails . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Jumping down at the end of his journey , the driver admitted : ‘ I still have n't got a phone . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Alan was sitting down at the end of the lawn , his back to the house ‘ so you do n't distract me ’ , finishing off some work for Monday . |