Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's another sort of things now that we do n't hear is when you sit down at the table to eat erm they 're probably the most the hostess would say now would be , Help yourself . |
| 2 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 3 | He was clean-shaven , in the Norman manner , leaving open to view a face broad at brow and well provided with strong and shapely bone , a lean jaw , and a full , firm mouth , long-lipped and mobile , and quirking upward at the corners to match a certain incalculable spark in his eye . |
| 4 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
| 5 | Those still in the queue peered inquisitively at the contents jumbled loosely together in brown paper wrapping . |
| 6 | Insects that fly in at the sides encounter a vertical baffle of netting that divides the trap along its axis , and tend to fly or clamber to the highest point of the baffle where the only way out is into a collecting jar . |
| 7 | In Lucien 's family , they had only come together at the times appointed by the Church : meals , various holidays , family councils and those mysterious , Church-nominated occasions when children were conceived . |
| 8 | That afternoon , while the same wind , now freshened , still blew across the island and off into the North Sea , Esmerelda and I went out as usual , and stopped off at the shed to pick up the dismantled kite . |
| 9 | Times I 've , I 've sat up at the window trying to wa watch her coming round two o'clock in the morning hoping that he 's fallen asleep down in the armchair . |
| 10 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 11 | Police knocking loudly at the door woke the minister and his wife , demanding entry to search . |
| 12 | While other poets busily peer about them , acknowledging the given world , Porter looks inwards at the figures described by his imagination . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been fortunate , so far , ’ the Governor said , looking down at the man lying in the bed . |
| 14 | There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below . |
| 15 | Bend down at the knees to pick up a bulky object , thus avoiding back strain . |
| 16 | There were a few who would have asked the same question , looking at Joan Rush , senior project officer with the fund , a prime mover in the group which has beavered away at the subject to bring it into the mainstream of policy and practice . |
| 17 | He came home at the home did n't you ? |
| 18 | It is worth looking carefully at the lettering cut deep into stone in Canberra 's vast war memorial : Australia , 8,709 ; New Zealand , 2,701 ; India , 7,597 ; France , 9,874 ; Britain , 21,255 . |
| 19 | Like the being able to slip out of his own head and stand in a corner , hang on the ceiling , terrifyingly , silent-screamingly BE SOMEWHERE ELSE , looking back at the body left behind . |
| 20 | Smoking on a train journey , looking out at the countryside whizzing by . |
| 21 | ‘ A case for galoshes , ’ remarked the Substitute , tossing a cigar end out of the jeep and looking around at the steam rising slowly from the wet earth . |
| 22 | Each laugh , observes Howard , looking chiefly at the laughter emerging from himself , is rounded and polished , as if cast in weathered bronze . |
| 23 | The demands and arguments put forward at the Congress had all been heard before . |
| 24 | Work at Liss pond , for instance , was going on at the moment to cut back overhanging trees which were starving the water of oxygen . |
| 25 | The tin-hatted soldiers who were sent into to quell riots on the troubled streets of Londonderry and Belfast must look enviously at the gear provided for the modern soldier . |
| 26 | But she lowered her eyes and went quietly from the room , turning only at the door to look back , finding , as she 'd hoped , that Tsu Ma 's eyes were on her . |
| 27 | Competition on price was used only at the margin to win benefits for patients , for example in awarding waiting list contracts . |
| 28 | For proper ventilation , cool air must be drawn in at the base to replace the hot air that has been extracted . |
| 29 | CRUISING slowly in the rush hour traffic , you look down at the radio to switch stations and — bang — the car in front stops suddenly and you 've run into it . |
| 30 | Then on Wednesday , hearses from two funeral companies turned up at the morgue to claim the body . |