Example sentences of "be [v-ing] down at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She told Lizzie now that she would be coming down at the weekend and asked her if she would be kind enough to get her old room ready for her . |
| 3 | ‘ Coming sir , ’ they both trilled , and soon we were sitting down at the dining table in a corner of the living-room . |
| 4 | I know of anything that is happening down at the rear , I can tell you I have a very keen sense of smell . " |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Anne is sitting down at the piano , unfolding her spectacles , smoothing the music in front of her . |
| 7 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He glanced from time to time out of the window , as if to see what was happening down at the jetty . |
| 10 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 11 | He was looking down at the pavement outside the house . |
| 12 | ‘ What exactly was going down at the farm ? ’ he asked . |
| 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 | She was sitting down at the table ; he thought she really was looking very ill and wretched but his tender pride kept him silent . |
| 15 | 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 . |