Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 7 | Police knocking loudly at the door woke the minister and his wife , demanding entry to search . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been fortunate , so far , ’ the Governor said , looking down at the man lying in the bed . |
| 9 | There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He came home at the home did n't you ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Smoking on a train journey , looking out at the countryside whizzing by . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Each laugh , observes Howard , looking chiefly at the laughter emerging from himself , is rounded and polished , as if cast in weathered bronze . |
| 17 | The demands and arguments put forward at the Congress had all been heard before . |
| 18 | Work at Liss pond , for instance , was going on at the moment to cut back overhanging trees which were starving the water of oxygen . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Competition on price was used only at the margin to win benefits for patients , for example in awarding waiting list contracts . |
| 22 | For proper ventilation , cool air must be drawn in at the base to replace the hot air that has been extracted . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Then on Wednesday , hearses from two funeral companies turned up at the morgue to claim the body . |
| 25 | He arrived at 1.30am on the first day , slept for a few hours and turned up at the clubhouse to find he was in the field . |
| 26 | He was n't the prettiest sight you would see on a golf course but , since he always turned up at the practice ground the following morning more or less on time and more or less clean-shaven , it was obvious that he patronised his own circuit of cheap guesthouses . |
| 27 | I am pleased at the progress on that issue , but may I ask the Minister now to look urgently at the decision to allow a Scottish ferry company to run the ferry between Rathlin and Ballycastle ? |
| 28 | ‘ Absolutely , ’ said Jean , whose lips and fingers tingled slightly at the opportunity to say as much . |
| 29 | ' I was objecting that , whatever you thought of Reagan , the United States was the archetypal democracy ; Mr Healey was remarking how very few people bothered to vote there at all , only one in five of the eligible voters having been enough to elect Bush ; and then we arrived obliquely at the part played in politics by exhaustion . |
| 30 | There 's a bus pulling up at the stop proclaiming ‘ Lightwater Valley , Soopa Loopa ’ . |