Example sentences of "[adv] down at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't find it , but buried right down at the bottom she did find a tape cassette in a box . |
| 2 | Right down at the bottom there by the apple tree . |
| 3 | To Ronni 's surprise , and apparently also to Guido 's , Silvia stared humbly down at the ground for a moment . |
| 4 | Tessa watched him , completely absorbed in him , as he sat wearily down at the table again , located the brown sugar among the remains of the breakfast things , and dug a spoonful out to lick at . |
| 5 | Tristan made a noncommittal gesture and his brother sank wearily down at the table . |
| 6 | Gav stood by the hall table , shifting his weight from side to side and glancing nervously down at the phone now and again . |
| 7 | ‘ You walk to your London office in preference to using your car on your non-interviewing days ? ’ he enquired , and Fabia looked swiftly down at the carpet . |
| 8 | Dotty looked thoughtfully down at the tablecloth . |
| 9 | The friar glanced despondently down at the sand and gravel . |
| 10 | More down at the bottom . |
| 11 | But when he looked up , the dwarf above him was standing , arms limp like a ragged doll , staring dully down at the crossbow bolt buried in his stomach . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's true the horse was 100 per cent sound five minutes afterwards , but there was definitely something wrong down at the start and Willie had advice from the starter and a vet . ’ |
| 13 | Benjamin and I just stared speechlessly down at the abbey , then up at the great Tor . |
| 14 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |
| 15 | Grégoire looked sullenly down at the floor . |
| 16 | Well they , they had to do the , it had n't used to have very good drainage and far more of a slope , it , it 's far more level today than it used to be , it used to have a great slope towards the long end which was considered an advantage to Walsall and the water used to gather , but I believe the improved the drainage and had pipes put under which it , it does n't seem to gather water so much now down at the railway end . |
| 17 | I 'm another one here down at the bottom , I 'm a county police |
| 18 | From the walls framed aldermen stared blandly down at the gathering of some five hundred local people , mostly women , mostly in their twenties and thirties . |
| 19 | The buskers were at Leicester Square , deep down at the level of the Piccadilly Line . |
| 20 | Jack looked at their terrified eyes and then down at the computer screen . |
| 21 | His mouth trembling , he looked at them both and then down at the knife-edge creases in his trousers . |
| 22 | Quickly dragging her gaze from his splendid body , Polly stared with intense concentration up at the mainsail , then down at the compass as embarrassment flamed her face . |
| 23 | Aggie looked from the child to the heap of rags , then down at the mountain of clothes covering her own body . |
| 24 | One looked from side to side , at the two speakers , or else down at the table or , fleetingly , at one 's own side . |
| 25 | She stared blankly down at the desk and , when she looked up , the clerk had gone . |
| 26 | Within a moment of her arrival St Ives put on the rimless spectacles he detested , though usually he preferred to squint blindly down at the book rather than be seen in them . |
| 27 | Thoroughly confused , she turned her head and stared blindly down at the fire . |
| 28 | We had been looking forward rather to this little drive between East and West Tarbert , but our greatest pleasure was when we stepped safely down at the pier where the little Islay steamer " Fingal " was waiting to carry us to this island of Jura . |