Example sentences of "down [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The windows of the five-storey buildings , with ornate wrought-iron balconies , peered down condescendingly at the passers-by , smug in their classic mantles of ivy and flowering creepers . |
| 2 | Peering down dubiously at the envelope , Monica departed to the bus-stop in the main road , and Alice went in to join the others around the table . |
| 3 | Her problem behaviour was specific to family lunch at weekends and holidays , the only occasions when the whole family sat down together at the table . |
| 4 | There is also the oft repeated argument that we should not sit down together at the table until after unity is accomplished . |
| 5 | Bobo was muscling up and down morosely at the back of the cage . |
| 6 | That , in some cases , that has been explored for the storage of heat in the summer which you would then use in the winter , but everywhere one comes back to storage nuclear power stations can not be turned up and down quickly at the moment , so either with electricity you have to have a uniform demand for electricity , or you have to , say , burn gas to provide an alternative way of generating electricity which can be turned up and down at will . |
| 7 | He looked down angrily at the man who had been so uselessly injured . |
| 8 | She peered out into the office , winding down now at the end of the first day : at the two constables scribbling notes at their desk , at another sitting at the HOLMES computer , at a WPC glancing through the actions book . |
| 9 | At ten-thirty next morning Captain Maestrangelo stood at the window in his office looking down intently at the street . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've got the equipment down here at the training centre but the only people who have the knowledge of how to use it are the staff . |
| 11 | It 's very cold and horrible down here at the moment . |
| 12 | He went back down under at the end of ‘ 89 and ran away with the Australian Order of Merit with three wins — using a Sam Torrance putter . |
| 13 | This time when he came back in to see her , the air was darkest around his form , but when he grinned over the noise of the men in the room behind the door — a woman 's laugh punctured the air beyond — and he sat down peaceably at the foot of her bed , the blue paled to a translucence like a robin 's egg . |
| 14 | The young man sat down readily at the table , leaning his homespun elbows at ease ; and Julian , without being bidden , came forward noiselessly and filled a cup for him . |
| 15 | ‘ They would need a bigger margin than that to mount a search down there at the bottom of the world . |
| 16 | I was only down there at the Spinners ’ , but I did n't get to her in time . ’ |
| 17 | They ca n't be enjoying their football down there at the moment if that 's the only thing they 've got to moan about . |
| 18 | When you were actually involved in it , when you were down there at the murder coal-face , it could be as complicated and unsatisfactory as marriage . |
| 19 | ‘ But I do n't think either ourselves or Forest will be struggling down there at the end of the season . ’ |
| 20 | Then down here we have a couple of day beds for patients who need to rest under observation for the day following treatment but who do n't really justify admission , and then over here we 've got the two theatres for major suturing and cleaning up , and then down there at the end the X-ray and plaster rooms . ’ |
| 21 | This was the final straw for Mrs B who broke down completely at the thought that her daughter could still think of her mother when this horrible thing was happening to her . |
| 22 | Irene sat down heavily at the table . |
| 23 | She was walking now with a stick and as she sat down heavily at the table she seemed depressed . |
| 24 | She sat down again at the table and worked on steadily . |
| 25 | He glanced up , patently unperturbed by the ice in her voice , took a mouthful of coffee , and looked back down again at the book he was studying . |
| 26 | I was let down lightly at the beginning , though . |
| 27 | Now she smiled down faintly at the jungle below the crystal windows of the suite as if remembering home — though that day the really deadly jungle was within the city , not without . |
| 28 | She looked down miserably at the table-top ; then looked up again as Morse elaborated : |