Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I do n't think either ourselves or Forest will be struggling down there at the end of the season . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They 've agreed they 're gon na use this federation one as a short stop gap an an I think Paul 's point is spot on , it might be a bit silly to jump in just at the moment |
| 5 | I was let down lightly at the beginning , though . |
| 6 | But it 's a Rozario 's got to come off now at the moment he 's just er a big sums it up there . |
| 7 | Guido drew up abruptly at the side of the road . |
| 8 | All the time he had this great bursting feeling of utter incredulity inside him ; it kept exploding , he kept laughing out loud at the memory of the amazing appearance before his very eyes of this whole new life ; the shock of it would not fade . |
| 9 | It dates back to at least the fifth century BC and is still carried out today at the roadside in parts of Asia . |
| 10 | At ten-thirty next morning Captain Maestrangelo stood at the window in his office looking down intently at the street . |
| 11 | In the 100 metres Allan got away to a fine start , I came through fast at the end , there was a photo-finish between us and he got the verdict . |
| 12 | She tensed up immediately at the prospect of seeing him again , but when she turned right round her heart flipped idiotically in her chest . |
| 13 | and when I looked they did n't have it threaded up right at the top at all I had to re-thread the machine . |
| 14 | Domino hurtled past him , tail wagging madly , looking up expectantly at the stranger . |
| 15 | Although he kept looking up eagerly at the sky , it was obvious that he could see nothing . |
| 16 | Central heating is actually fairly easy to sort out right at the beginning provided you are clear about certain facts . |
| 17 | It is probably best to take this piece seated , to suggest a character looking back reflectively at the events recalled . |
| 18 | Although the break was a nasty one , McCracken came back successfully at the beginning of 1921–22 when the Palace made their debut in Division Two and he played more games for us in that division than anyone else during our four year tenure there 1921–25 . |
| 19 | And that 's one of the things that you came out right at the time , I needed something really swanky for a caption for Rolling Stone . |
| 20 | ‘ Sit , girls , ’ she said , looking round severely at the rows of pupils . |
| 21 | We 've got too much going on here at the moment . ’ |
| 22 | That was fun , compared to what is going on now at the NEA . |
| 23 | The rosy colour faded from Brenda 's cheeks as she thought what might happen if the van went rushing on unawares at the bridge . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | His attention to the style of his premiership shone through even at the age of ninety , twenty years after his departure from No. 10 , in a television interview with Ludovic Kennedy : |
| 26 | What 's more , he had also learned that he must ignore the first playing of the tune , and wait 15 minutes until it played again at the end of the programme — the dog would look up quizzically at the sound of the familiar music but stay still , apparently too smart to respond to an obvious false alarm . |
| 27 | he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm . |
| 28 | Every head turned up automatically at the sound of the furnace engine . |
| 29 | Rigby was surprised when Gedge turned up beforehand at the town 's Tesco stores where she had a Saturday job . |
| 30 | I mean , you can go along and always think ‘ Oh there 's nothing to this ’ , but then for some reason or other somebody has a complaint 's gone a big way round and ends up right at the top , and then , of course cascading down comes the ‘ Why ? |