Example sentences of "was [v-ing] down at the [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 | ‘ What exactly was going down at the farm ? ’ he asked . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She was sitting down at the table ; he thought she really was looking very ill and wretched but his tender pride kept him silent . |
| 9 | 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 . |