Example sentences of "[verb] down at [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
| 6 | Plunging his hands deeply into the pockets of his dark tailored suit , he frowned down at her from beneath his heavy brows , the lines of his face taut with strain and tension . |
| 7 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 8 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
| 9 | The eyes were there , glaring down at me from behind high defensive cheekbones , as if through the slits of a visor . |
| 10 | He stopped abruptly , glaring down at her from eyes that looked like dark chasms . |
| 11 | As I write , he nods down at me from the wall beside my desk ; shining brass-reel in place , cast and flies still ready for action , waiting for the last trumpet to sound . |
| 12 | The farmer 's patient eyes in the long , drooping-moustached face looked down at me from his stooping height . |
| 13 | The man looked down at him from his perch in a beech-tree above the track , and laughed . |
| 14 | She had had enough of these old people who looked down at her from their height of years , who always knew what was best for her . |
| 15 | He twisted his Redwood trunk on the bed and looked down at her from under his lashless lids . |
| 16 | He stopped in front of her and looked down at her from what appeared just then to be a very great height . |
| 17 | For a brief while he looked down at her from his superior height . |
| 18 | Rows of mustachioed men looked down at us from their perches on metal shelves along the walls . |
| 19 | ‘ And do n't dare tell me it 's going to be too tough for a woman , ’ Mariana shouted , as she glared down at him from the saloon . |
| 20 | She was standing and smiling down at them from an upstairs window . |