Example sentences of "down at the [noun] and " in BNC.
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1 | She told Lizzie now that she would be coming down at the weekend and asked her if she would be kind enough to get her old room ready for her . |
2 | He looked down at the manuscript and locket and gave a little shudder . |
3 | He sat down at the desk and dialled Stuart Baxter 's private number . |
4 | He stared down at the desk and spoke in a voice that was barely audible . |
5 | She stared blankly down at the desk and , when she looked up , the clerk had gone . |
6 | Where you start down at the estbottom and build it right up to the goddamn , fuckin' sky ! ’ |
7 | Violet pulled her mouth down at the corners and shrugged her skinny shoulders . |
8 | She looked down at the xerox and shook her head . |
9 | For a moment she stared down at the stains and the roses , and then she walked away . |
10 | She looked down at the sandal and with one worn finger gently moved the heel to and fro on its fragile shred of skin . |
11 | It 's you that 's wanted down at the station and it was kind of you to give me a lift . |
12 | The friar glanced despondently down at the sand and gravel . |
13 | The T'ang looked back down at the folder and at the summary Shepherd had appended to the front of his report . |
14 | He looked down at the girl and was moved . |
15 | I hissed , glancing up the stairs for shadows , crouching down at the phone and covering up my mouth with my free hand . |
16 | Scarcely pausing for thought , she sat herself down at the keyboard and , without so much as a sheet of music to look at , launched into Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto , blushing deeply to the round of spontaneous applause . |
17 | I looked down at the chart and saw that the island was not so very far off our course , and I knew that the Beechcraft was brim-full with fuel . |
18 | Fiver looked down at the water and twitched his ears . |
19 | Someone 's brother , baby son , or lover he thought and now he was gone : Corbett looked down at the corpse and felt the futility of the death . |
20 | Well , if I erm said to one of my students something about that was a very good essay you wrote , in fact I 'd like to discuss it a little bit more down at the pub and down at the pub I put my hand on his knee perhaps in making a point about how good his essay was . |
21 | And as often happens , United were so committed to attack , that they left the drawbridge down at the back and Lemon scored another in the last minute to make it Hereford 1 ; Chesterfield 3 . |
22 | Or you could buy dresses , one or two dresses that were all complete except for the seam down at the back and the seams under the arms . |
23 | She looked down at the floor and made the slightest movement with one hand . |
24 | There 's a moment when he looks away from the camera and down at the floor and softly says , ‘ Nobody 's young any more … |
25 | Rilla looked down at the floor and said nothing . |
26 | The Archbishop looked down at the floor and shook his head . |
27 | She stared down at the floor and the remains of what had been a human being . |
28 | This only discomfited the coroner further , he stared down at the floor and shuffled his feet like some clumsy schoolboy . |
29 | The chapel was cold and damp , slightly eerie with the candles down at the altar and the ruby light of the sanctuary lamp . |
30 | Her mother knelt down at the fireplace and lifted the iron grill from the front of the fireplace . |