Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back on the main road , it turns right at the junction in Gleann Beag , passing a complex of handsome farm buildings , and ascends a long incline where much-needed improvements have taken place . |
| 2 | When they dined together at the Perroquet in March 1951 , they talked among other things about ‘ British painting and what had happened to it since the high hopes of the war ’ . |
| 3 | His gaze dropped to her breasts and she shrivelled inside at the contempt in his tone . |
| 4 | He winced slightly at the sharpness in her voice , then bowed his head . |
| 5 | but David 's sat there at the minute in the background . |
| 6 | Together they formed the Jewish Comedy Club appearing Upstairs At The Picket in Hardman Street as part of the Liverpool Festival of Comedy . |
| 7 | The reasons for the job cuts are a classified secret , but volunteers for redundancy and early retirement are being urged to come forward at the base in Cheltenham , where seven thousand people work . |
| 8 | And then — ’ he ran a harsh finger along the gash in his nose , and gestured impatiently at the paper in her hand ‘ — the rug gets pulled out from underneath me . ’ |
| 9 | I 've had some armchairs brought in and put there at the window in case you want to talk to people more informally than around the table . ’ |
| 10 | He was looking closely at the picture in his hand . |
| 11 | Joe squinted short-sightedly at the shape in the dimness . |
| 12 | The party fared badly at the election in April last year , and Craxi 's name has appeared regularly in the inquiries . |
| 13 | Desmond Barker was however , appointed to look afresh at the Constitution in general . |
| 14 | ‘ When they found a policeman at the pay-off they must have panicked , ’ Major Volpi had remarked to Di Leonardo when they arrived together at the scene in a Carabinieri helicopter . |
| 15 | Erm and I really would ask the panel on this particular issue erm to er look critically at the suggestion in P P G three , paragraph thirty three that a new settlement could upgrade areas of low landscape value . |
| 16 | Many Clintonites look ruefully at the surge in Paddy Ashdown 's polls after the adultery confession . |
| 17 | Their aim is to deny the batsman room to play the ball away square of the wicket and wide of the fieldsmen in the V. They occasionally bowl a slower delivery to upset the timing of the batsman who swings uniformly at the ball in the expectation that it will always come on the bat at the same speed . |
| 18 | Mackintosh ( 1960 ) draws attention to an important aspect of the annual vertical migration that many species follow ; dispersing northward at the surface in summer , their descent to 400–600 m in winter ensures that they return south in the southward-flowing waters at those depths . |
| 19 | Instead , he was leaning forward , peering through the glass that separated them from the chauffeur and glaring furiously at the car in front of them . |
| 20 | Tolonen bowed again , then sat , staring pointedly at the folder in Li Yuan 's lap . |
| 21 | She looked pleadingly at the man in overalls as if he might step in and save her . |
| 22 | Folly stared fixedly at the desk in an attempt not to listen to the one-sided conversation . |
| 23 | Turn left at the junction in the village . |
| 24 | He looked sharply at the receptionist in enquiry , suppressed energy in his every movement . |
| 25 | I stared stupidly at the bag in my hand as if it had just been dropped there from a helicopter . |
| 26 | But a few minutes after he was launched into the speech he came to a dead stop , stared strangely at the gallery in silence , and could not go on . |
| 27 | Kelly stared hard at the woman in front of him . |
| 28 | But none of this disturbed my mind or my body as I looked across at the girl in the coffee bar . |
| 29 | He picked up a mirror and looked at his own face , and then looked again at the face in the portrait . |
| 30 | Questions poured towards the chair , and Mrs Murphy banged her gavel so hard on the coffee table that it left a mark , which distressed her so much that she forgot for a moment why she was hammering and stared sadly at the dent in the wood . |