Example sentences of "[v-ing] down at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spanish reporter , Alfonso Roja , describes a woman in Baghdad , her eyes smouldering , shouting down at a crowd of Western journalists : ‘ Is this what you call Western civilisation ? ’ |
| 2 | The arrow tip came free and I lay on my side in frightful suffering weakness , looking down at a sharp black point sticking out from scarlet wool . |
| 3 | On the relief the girl Athena , without aegis or shield ( she is shown now even without helmet , or with it in her hand ) leans on her spear , hand on hip , looking down at a small stele . |
| 4 | It was only when I was actually up there and the music had stopped , and I found myself looking down at a hundred or so expectant faces , that I remembered the magnitude of the task in front of me . |
| 5 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 6 | The sole observation is indirect ; the orbital period of the binary pulsar 1913 + 16 is measured to be slowing down at a rate which agrees well with that expected if the system is emitting gravitational radiation . |
| 7 | A long , thin brunette sat on another bean-bag very close to her , staring down at a focus somewhere near the edge of the blonde 's left thigh . |
| 8 | They had sat opposite each other in a compartment crowded with Able Seamen , he watching the darkening fields flying outside the window and Bunny staring down at a single sheet of notepaper , pale blue in colour , which he held on his jigging knee and from whose fold poked a sprig of crab apple in bloom . |
| 9 | ‘ There is research to be done , ’ Dury said , sitting down at a table strewn with photocopies from obscure-looking reference books . |
| 10 | By the time he felt able to add sound effects , Jenny was sitting down at a table with two girls and three youths . |