Example sentences of "was [verb] down at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 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 | He glanced from time to time out of the window , as if to see what was happening down at the jetty . |
| 4 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 5 | He was looking down at the pavement outside the house . |
| 6 | The music was turned down at the request of a fat man who was actually trying to sleep through all the noise . |
| 7 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |
| 8 | ‘ What exactly was going down at the farm ? ’ he asked . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When the local government map was laid down at the end of the nineteenth century , many of the administrative units — for example , Anglo-Saxon shires and medieval boroughs — were already outdated . |
| 11 | By the time he felt able to add sound effects , Jenny was sitting down at a table with two girls and three youths . |
| 12 | She was sitting down at the table ; he thought she really was looking very ill and wretched but his tender pride kept him silent . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To drain the works in the soles of Fleming 's Level , a pumping and winding sump was put down at the intersection with the cross-cut and it is believed that power for this was by hand . |
| 15 | Er , what I would like to propose the erm a a that resolution two of course , was put down at the time it had to be put down er , and is clearly going to be affected by , that it happened at the th the financial services in March and what I have suggested is that you might prefer this be a a a second resolution it is or and turn to the to add on the end of that resolution thus urging local churches to through their consultations with district treasurers and finance committee to increase their contributions to the Ministry of Mission Fund in nineteen ninety three in such a way that provincial commi , commitment may be increased by at least five percent over the nineteen ninety two . |
| 16 | And I was working upstairs in er what 's called the gascon module , Which was shut down at the time for repair work and things like that . |
| 17 | A Sinn Fein member , father of six Peter Gallagher , 44 , of Toomebridge , Co Antrim , was gunned down at a builder 's yard in Belfast , on Wednesday . |