Example sentences of "[verb] down at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 2 | But to this day he had not once sat down at a table prepared by Beth , and both she and David knew only too well that it was a deliberate snub . |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | Well this is the situation where you would ideally you do n't want to have to look down at a speedometer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When we adjourned to the lounge , he glanced down at a newspaper that had been cast aside , commenting in a murmur : ‘ the usual half-finished crossword ! ’ |
| 7 | He looked across , smiled , winked at her , and said ‘ Hi there … er = ’ He glanced down at a sheet in front of him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Andrew Ferguson , 25 , of Pelham Street , Hartlepool , was fined £100 and ordered to pay compensation of £117 to the woman driver of a car which he kicked as it slowed down at a road junction . |
| 10 | She looked down at a letter on the table in front of her , collecting her thoughts . |
| 11 | And they go down at a bit at a time or it 'll go all the way down . |
| 12 | A SPECIAL constable was shot dead at point-blank range and his colleague gunned down at a routine police check , an Old Bailey court heard yesterday . |
| 13 | ‘ There is research to be done , ’ Dury said , sitting down at a table strewn with photocopies from obscure-looking reference books . |
| 14 | By the time he felt able to add sound effects , Jenny was sitting down at a table with two girls and three youths . |
| 15 | Conversely , any fool can sit down at a slot machine . |
| 16 | He would sit down at a table , take a sheet of writing paper , and discharge himself into me . |
| 17 | They may sit down at a table to chat to a friend . |
| 18 | A Sinn Fein member , father of six Peter Gallagher , 44 , of Toomebridge , Co Antrim , was gunned down at a builder 's yard in Belfast , on Wednesday . |
| 19 | Last night , two Catholics were gunned down at a shop on the Stewartstown Road , west Belfast and one is believed to have been seriously wounded . |
| 20 | Ruth grinned at him as he sat down at a cane table , making sure he was under the bright green awning that hung over the balcony and not a sliver of sun was on the bare parts of his body . |
| 21 | After a while I sat down at a pavement café table and rather shamefacedly clapped my hands , but produced such a ladylike patter that no one heard me . |
| 22 | Sir Ralph ( he had been knighted by Margaret Thatcher in 1980 for raising money from commerce and industry to finance the activities of Conservative Central Office when in Opposition ) bought a coffee and sat down at a corner table . |
| 23 | He sat down at a table of one of the outdoor cafés in the square and ordered a glass of wine . |
| 24 | We sat down at a table and he poured me out some tea . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I hope we are going to find a bit more life than this , ’ grunted Billy , as they sat down at a table near the gas fire . |
| 26 | The canteen at TV London was largely deserted at half past ten the next morning when Dexter and Blanche sat down at a table in the corner of the self-service section . |