Example sentences of "down at [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Dyson sat pouting and rubbing his hands together , glaring down at various parts of the table .
2 THE case must be made again for judges to stand down at 70 years of age .
3 But for newcomers it is daunting to stand on the brink of Genghis Khan — one of the runs in China Bowl — and gaze down at unending acres of snow .
4 He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens .
5 Brian Lara was dropped low down at first slip by Wessels off his first ball from Snell , and Keith Arthurton , in his first Test for three years , survived two slip catches off no-balls and another actual chance in his top score of 59 , filled with 10 exciting on-side boundaries .
6 He was seen to bend down at two drains near his home .
7 Jannie sat down at one corner of the great kitchen table and began to write a shopping list .
8 Gooch , though , England 's loyal and reliable banker , went for his second modest score of the match , a choker of a dismissal in that he was held down at second slip at 3.43pm , three minutes into interval time .
9 Thus tree rings are differentiated by the types , density and size of cell laid down at different times of the year ; varves by the gradation in particle size resulting from sedimentation of debris released into rivers and carried to lakes by the annual melt of glaciers ; and ice core layers by differences in dust content and acidity .
10 Fallen branches littered the rides and new growths of whippy little sapling twigs poked down at head-and-shoulder height to a horseman .
11 From the parking area above , you can easily walk down at either end of the crag , but it 's much more fun to follow the path leftwards and make a free 25 metres abseil through the blow-hole in the roof of the enormous cave of Baume Percée .
12 His hands came down at either side of her , trapping her against the wall .
13 Although Wright was missed by Gooch , low down at third slip off DeFreitas when 3 , the serious stuff began only when Tufnell was given the ball for the 26th over .
14 It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below .
15 Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time .
16 I sit down at this desk with a ledger .
17 This precipitated out the dextran which was spun down at 3500 rpm at 4°C for 10 minutes .
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