Example sentences of "[adv] looking down " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would remained erm close to the doorway covering the internal hallway er effectively looking down towards the kitchen and the living room area . |
| 2 | I did n't like the feeling ; it brought it home to me how much you are judged by how you look , all the time , and how weird it feels when you are talking to this compere , and all the time you know he is n't listening to a word you are saying , just looking down your cleavage . |
| 3 | He was just looking down on her face , one hand smoothing the hair from her cheek . |
| 4 | Choppy 's comments about schools in urban areas is quite interesting , because the first one was actually in Lincolnshire , which in no terms could be regarded as an urban area , and quickly looking down the list — and there are actually about sixty throughout the country — an awful lot of them have been in rural heartlands like Oxfordshire . |
| 5 | But this raised the problem that one eye was always looking down into the sand and was effectively useless . |
| 6 | Still looking down , it seemed as if the pattern of squares was moving . |
| 7 | The judge was looking at his papers , and said , still looking down , ‘ I believe you want to adopt this little girl . |
| 8 | I was still looking down at the girl in the grass . |
| 9 | Clibber was still looking down at his feet . |
| 10 | And she sat there , still looking down at the sand . |
| 11 | He paused a moment , still looking down at the body , the head in the centre of a spreading pool of blood . |
| 12 | He was still looking down and still doing a little dance . |
| 13 | the sticker was at the bottom , and there was nothing at the top and she , and she was still looking down at it , in other words there was nothing in it before |
| 14 | Also looking down , but from a much higher orbit , is a Defence Support Programme satellite ( DSP ) . |
| 15 | George had come to stand beside her , also looking down at the baby . |
| 16 | Probably looking down I think , probably . |
| 17 | I am often bemused by the men who criticize a woman 's shape when they are quite clearly looking down on their own unsightly ‘ pregnant'-looking stomachs . |
| 18 | He let her leave the room before going across to Aggie , who was standing now looking down into the fire , and he patted the back of her shoulder , saying , ‘ You 're doin' the best thing , Aggie , the only thing . |
| 19 | And Jackdaws Castle which sits high on the Cotswolds is now looking down on the racing world … |
| 20 | As I ran , I remember thinking stupid thoughts like : How did he know I was up here looking down ? |
| 21 | Perdita , however , was excitedly looking down on vast faded pink rivers curling through spinach-green forest , and the blue shadow of their plane lying across Buenos Aires . |
| 22 | A stroll in the moonlight by the old St Joseph 's seminary and the lake , and then looking down on the lights of Wigan . |
| 23 | But now he trod carefully across the carpet to the bed and stood silently looking down at the body of Berowne . |
| 24 | The curtain was a dense , opaque greenish-yellow , and something was right behind it , a shape pressing against the humped plastic standing there looking down at him , half seen , half imagined . |
| 25 | He came to her , taking her hands and drawing her to her feet , just standing there looking down at her as she found herself quite incapable of resisting . |
| 26 | Ronni glared at him , hating his arrogant self-assurance , as he stood there looking down at her as though he ruled the world . |
| 27 | Gabriel had the window wide open and was standing there looking down at him . |
| 28 | On the second night at the caravan she had slid back the partition between his bed and hers and had walked quietly up to his bed and had stood gravely looking down at him . |
| 29 | She listens to him silently , sometimes looking down at his hand on the table , and lightly running her middle finger over it , from the wrist to the tip of the index finger , sometimes looking straight into his eyes . |
| 30 | I cough again looking down at the tile floor of the room . |