Example sentences of "[verb] down at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And this year you 're crazy about Maria Luisa , ’ Ruth murmured , gazing down at the fingers she had been wringing till they were red and hot . |
| 2 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 3 | Small mesh stiff netting from the garden centre , suitably stretched and weighed down at the edges is another method . |
| 4 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 5 | But looking down at the words now , it did not appear so simple . |
| 6 | When they had gone , Maria glanced at Luke , but to her relief he was looking down at the photos Florian had left behind , his expression inscrutable . |
| 7 | Back to the edge of the island and there was already a crowd of people looking down at the rocks . |
| 8 | And the woman seemed in no hurry to close it and shut out the dangerous night ; she simply stood , looking down at the children and smiling . |
| 9 | The two boys stood looking down at the heaps of feathers . |
| 10 | Bend down at the knees to pick up a bulky object , thus avoiding back strain . |
| 11 | She was frowning , deep lines appearing between her eyebrows , mouth drawn down at the edges so that instead of a classically good-looking slim English Rose in her late twenties , she looked faded , years older than her real age , and shrewish . |
| 12 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 13 | When he craned to stare down at the crowds in the great square below the palace , his head moved so that it rested upon the parapet like a decoration . |
| 14 | Carrie looked at him and saw his mouth turning down at the corners . |
| 15 | ‘ He was going to hit you , ’ she said , and her mouth turned down at the corners . |
| 16 | The marquis 's lips turned down at the corners . |
| 17 | ‘ We got rid of an old woman and replaced him with a younger one , ’ Fergus said , mouth turned down at the corners , staring over his whisky tumbler and across the room to where his wife was talking to Antonia . |
| 18 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 19 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
| 20 | His father was pointing down at the rocks . |
| 21 | In the 50th minute Logan made amends when he burst on to Stewart 's pop-up pass and touched down at the posts for the stand-off to convert . |
| 22 | She sat down on one of the red spoon-shaped chairs in the station foyer and placed her feet neatly together on the black and white tiles , staring down at the shoes Nurse Rose had so gushingly admired . |
| 23 | ‘ Humph … ’ the policeman grunted , staring down at the notes before him . |
| 24 | You lose their attention if you keep staring down at the papers in your hand . |
| 25 | Leaving her abruptly , he moved to the desk and stood staring down at the papers lying on it , his attitude so tense that Lucy felt compelled to go to his side . |
| 26 | The families gathered round in a circle , staring down at the remains of their menfolk . |
| 27 | No answer suggested itself , however , and after a minute or two he became aware that as these thoughts whirled through his mind he had been staring down at the grilles confining the Chinese coolie families . |
| 28 | The long thin mouth was pulled down at the corners like a tragic mask , the eyes were hooded , the shoulders hunched , head bent forward so that the man 's gaze seemed fixed on the surface of the table . |
| 29 | She stared down at the papers in her hand , not wanting to look at him . |
| 30 | For a moment she stared down at the stains and the roses , and then she walked away . |