Example sentences of "[v-ing] down at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He just stood looking down at her for a moment , his eyes still pleading , and then abruptly he turned and picked up the tray and carried it into the kitchen for her . |
| 2 | He was looking down at her with a superior , amused smile on his face . |
| 3 | ‘ I am ready , ’ he announced , pulling himself to the edge of the pool and looking down at her with no expression on his face to give her any clue about his attitude . |
| 4 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 5 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 6 | ‘ Funny little faces peering down at me through the branches overhead . |
| 7 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
| 8 | Artemis looked up at her father and found him staring down at her with a deep frown , as if to say , Artemis felt , that she should have known . |
| 9 | He was holding her hand and staring down at her with an extraordinary expression on his face that she had never seen before . |
| 10 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 11 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
| 12 | Then the door behind my head jerked open , the car light came on like a flashbulb , and there was a seven-foot black pimp snarling down at me with a mahogany baseball bat in his fist . |
| 13 | ‘ I need a swim , ’ he said with a rueful grin , levering himself upright and glancing down at her with a look which sent her senses spinning into chaos again . |
| 14 | Mitch surmised , glancing down at her with a grin . |
| 15 | She was standing and smiling down at them from an upstairs window . |