Example sentences of "[v-ing] down [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment , it could have been a second only , he sat rigidly gazing down at his clasped hands . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't expect them to have guns , ’ said Kellerman , gazing down at his stricken , companion . |
| 3 | She levered herself up on an elbow , gazing down at his handsome , tanned face . |
| 4 | Italy left the counter to the very last seconds with their scrum-half touching down on his own kick through . |
| 5 | Yes , he thought , looking down at his own long hands ; the tiger 's teeth are soft now , his eyes grown dull . |
| 6 | Freeborn was looking down at his big toes with mild distaste as if they were errant members whose deficiencies had only now become apparent to him . |
| 7 | As he fed , and she sat looking down at his absorbed face and regularly pumping jaws , his eyes tight closed and his clenched fist resting lightly on her skin , she slid into the blissfully familiar peace of it , even enjoying the faint sense of shame that came with the pleasure . |
| 8 | Such occasions are not the rule though , for their whole design suggests a fish that is more at home when his hollow belly is gripping the bottom and the surging current is pushing down on his drooping snout and coursing past his streamlined body . |
| 9 | His upper jaw kept clamping down on his lower jaw with a loud grinding noise , and chewed through each morsel so thoroughly that we could hear his teeth striking against each other … |
| 10 | As the Trees bent to their grisly task again , there was a terrible cracking , bone-against-muscle sound and Balor screeched , sweat beading on his face and running down into his thick coarse neck . |
| 11 | The days of smoking a pipe suddenly came back to him , and he realized that he was biting down on his own teeth . |
| 12 | You imagine what the guy was putting down for his fourteen thousand pound booklet . |