Example sentences of "[verb] down at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Peter , stands down at BP in spring next year . |
| 2 | The man had picked up the ball , and peered down at Nick through dark-rimmed , bleary eyes . |
| 3 | No um Michael Fraser Associates have now started a lobbying operation which is run for them by the former Chief Executive of the Tory Party in Scotland whose name I 've forgotten but he lives down at Tiningham in East Lothian ah , now if I could get him in if Fred does n't object and again if Fred did n't object and the other guy did n't object it might be worth getting a member of Parliament in |
| 4 | ‘ You need a highchair , ’ declared a long-aproned and straw-boatered young man , grinning down at Thomas in his buggy . |
| 5 | Or once the partition walls are down , you can create your own flexible dividers , with bookcases , shelving units , screens or screen-like structures like trellis , or even Murphy beds that let down at night from what looks like a panelled screen . |
| 6 | Outside , Goldman was looking down at Schmidt as if he were standing on a cliff 's edge and peering at the drop . |
| 7 | Philippa was laughing in the perimeter of shadow that surrounded the light and Lee felt oddly stable looking down at Larry as if she were surveying an actor from the height and comfort of the gallery . |
| 8 | Jeopardy was leaning against the wall , his head thrown back , arms folded , looking down at Amber with inscrutable eyes . |
| 9 | Then there is the matter of the French Cheddar ( not to be confused with an unidentified English cheese known for generations to the French public as Chester ) now being made down at Castres in the Tarn department of the Languedoc . |
| 10 | just as he wanted them , there was real oldy-worldy and the kitchen furniture was made down at Buckfastely in Devon and that was all re-claim pine |
| 11 | Coughing spasms every 2–3 hours worse ( < ) lying down at night until 3 am . |
| 12 | Turkey vultures are common on Kidney Island and are usually to be seen soaring on two-tone black and translucent wings , peering down at visitors with a calculating look in their beady eye set in a head of bare red skin . |
| 13 | One week we decided to follow him to find out where he was sloping off to We found him on the roof ledge peering down at people in a car below . |
| 14 | Well we er duly arrived down at quarter to ten as twenty six of September this year . |
| 15 | The main danger to The Thinker must be Playschool , but he is having his first race since breaking down at Cheltenham in November , 1988 . |
| 16 | The main danger to The Thinker must be Playschool , but he is having his first race since breaking down at Cheltenham in November , 1988 . |
| 17 | King Hassan II was at the airport to welcome the Shah and Queen when their boeing touched down at Marrakesh on 22 January 1979 . |
| 18 | Then she glanced down at Lee as if she thought Lee might take it as a remark against her . |
| 19 | There were stacks of old art magazines , a broken easel , the white-painted bough which Elise had brought down at Christmas before trimming and hanging it over the inglenook fireplace . |
| 20 | They need to be informed about the aims and content of foreign language teaching in this country , as laid down at present by exams such as GSCE and in the future by the National Curriculum . |
| 21 | So that put an end to that … no more dances down at Cotherstone for me . |
| 22 | Students of our naval past may treasure those small books bound in wood salvaged from the Mary Rose , which heeled over and sank off Portsmouth in 1545 ; or brought up from the Royal George which , a tarnished monument to the neglect of the Admiralty , went down at Spithead in 1772 with nearly a thousand souls . |
| 23 | He looked down at Edouard from the horse 's back , and Edouard looked up at him . |
| 24 | Mrs Phelps looked down at Matilda from her great height and Matilda looked right back up at her . |
| 25 | Go down at night to the Corniche , the old Portuguese part of Muscat , and you are as safe as in your air-conditioned hotel . |
| 26 | The last such mutiny was put down at Burford on the thirteenth of May , 1649 , by Cromwell in person . |
| 27 | For a moment ’ Anthea 's face was etched with horror , then the black eyes glared down at Meryl with outrage and venom . |
| 28 | I glared down at Vern from above . |
| 29 | Others have been gunned down at home in front of their children . |