Example sentences of "[verb] down at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His blue eyes twinkled down at her with sudden , unexpected mischief and he offered her his arm . |
| 2 | Dyson stood by the stove , gazing down at her with serious ferocity . |
| 3 | ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time . |
| 4 | After taking my blood pressure and temperature , they took turns to poke , prod and press , then stood gazing down at me with puzzled wonder . |
| 5 | Even the hardened faggots of Manhattan ( I fancied ) were gazing down at us with concern from their lofts and condos and thinking — we 're pretty brazen , God knows , but these guys , they 'll queer the whole pitch . |
| 6 | Slowly he stepped across to the terrace and gazed down at her with eyes so racked with pain that Ruth 's own eyes filled to the brim with her despair and lost love . |
| 7 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , then shook his head in disbelief . |
| 8 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , studying her features as if trying to re-gather his thoughts . |
| 9 | Sometimes , he would catch glimpses of wonderful things through the trees : silver wolves slipping like fluid between the gnarled trunks , their eyes the blue of an early autumn sky ; hewkin maidens of astounding loveliness dancing in a spotlight of moonbeams , curling their slim green hands towards him in bird-like gestures ; ghost children with berry-red faces and tomb-black eyes , laughing down at him from high branches . |
| 10 | Yanto shook his fist at the face of the crane driver grinning down at them through his cab window . |
| 11 | Anyway , there I was lying on the pavement on my back , looking up the skirt of a very tall Quantas air hostess who was looking down at me in equal amazement . |
| 12 | There were a few houses whose wrought-iron balconies were crammed with plants : great pots of geraniums , full and dark , the flowers looking down at me like tiny faces , intently . |
| 13 | He just stood looking down at her for a moment , his eyes still pleading , and then abruptly he turned and picked up the tray and carried it into the kitchen for her . |
| 14 | He stood up , looking down at her with eyes like splintered ice . |
| 15 | But he just raised his eyebrows , looking down at her with mocking disdain . |
| 16 | She dived into her bag and held out the necessary money , and at least it stopped him in his tracks , although it left him looking down at her with less than pleasure . |
| 17 | She only became aware of her rather foolish escapade when she found Alain towering over her , looking down at her with narrowed , amused eyes , his lips quirking very close to open laughter . |
| 18 | He suddenly swung her up into his arms , looking down at her with burning eyes . |
| 19 | Finally she was backed into a corner by the door , the horse guarding any escape route and the man looking down at her with dark , fathomless eyes . |
| 20 | ‘ I am ready , ’ he announced , pulling himself to the edge of the pool and looking down at her with no expression on his face to give her any clue about his attitude . |
| 21 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 22 | It was fitzAlan , looking down at her with eyes that ripped her heart into pieces , speaking to her in a voice so hard that the words were like blows . |
| 23 | He was driving her crazy the way he was holding her and the way he was looking down at her with smouldering blue eyes . |
| 24 | He was looking down at her with a superior , amused smile on his face . |
| 25 | She was still rocking from the unexpected power his kisses had over her when , looking down at her from his lofty height , he mocked , ‘ Now try and tell me you are n't just anybody 's ! ’ |
| 26 | Suddenly those flaring sapphire eyes were inches from hers , looking down at her from great heights , forcing her to lift her chin a notch higher than was comfortable to look into them . |
| 27 | She made no move to resist , she never could and he lifted his head , looking down at her in amusement , putting her carefully from him and turning to the door . |
| 28 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 29 | ‘ Funny little faces peering down at me through the branches overhead . |
| 30 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |