Example sentences of "down at [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As they stood patiently in a doorway waiting for the column to pass , Catherine turned to say something to McLeish and he looked down at her for a long moment .
2 He stared down at her for a long moment , his mouth very close to her own .
3 He gazed down at her for a long moment , then shook his head in disbelief .
4 He gazed down at her for a long moment , studying her features as if trying to re-gather his thoughts .
5 He stared down at her for a few seconds , almost as if searching for some clue hidden in her expression .
6 He glanced down at her with a slight smile .
7 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 .
8 Giles looked down at her with a rueful smile .
9 He was looking down at her with a superior , amused smile on his face .
10 He was holding her hand and staring down at her with an extraordinary expression on his face that she had never seen before .
11 She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see .
12 He smiled down at her in a drunken , rather disquieting sort of way .
13 McKitrick 's house lounged on a maple-strewn ridge , sleek and contemporary , with a gable end sporting one huge circular window that stared down at her like an unblinking eye .
14 A large framed photograph of Joe Louis in fighting stance looked menacingly down at him from a supporting beam as he walked through the saloon bar doorway .
15 She smiled down at him in a funny way , stroked his head , touched his cheek with the back of her fingers .
16 He looked down at it with a horrified surprise .
17 She stared down at it for a long time .
18 Sometimes the horse stretches out its neck at the horse it is trying to warn off and tosses its head up and down at it in a threatening manner .
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