Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And , you know , I have n't the faintest idea of what actually goes on at a baby farm . |
| 2 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 3 | He was leaning against the parapet rail , gazing down at the brick terrace several floors below . |
| 4 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 5 | Tucking in at the Cork District Social function held in Clancy 's Bar on Wednesday , 7th April 1993 . |
| 6 | When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out . |
| 7 | Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse . |
| 8 | She gazed down at the London horizon , its tranquillity pierced by hulks of office buildings . |
| 9 | They were the sorts of contacts that you have when you 're signing on at the Employment Benefits Office , when you 're going to a job interview erm and often these are very negative because the experience of signing on is n't a very pleasant experience at all ; most job interviews , unfortunately , end with a rejection erm so a lot of these non-routine contacts were quite negatives ones for people . |
| 10 | She 'd got the job after being made redundant and signing on at the job centre . |
| 11 | These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea . |
| 12 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 13 | Ashley enquired , as he peered down at the instrument panel . |
| 14 | There the plaintiff had booked in at the reception desk of a hotel and only subsequently , on entering her room , did she discover behind the door a notice which claimed to exclude the hotel 's liability for guests ’ property . |
| 15 | Police with truncheons waded in at the San Siro stadium as fighting broke out , although there were no immediate reports of severe injuries . |
| 16 | Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom . |
| 17 | I 've planned me route , I 'm going down the M six , I need to come off at the spaghetti junction whatever it is , and I 'm going to check me clock and I 'm going allow plenty of time to get there . |
| 18 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
| 19 | He took a taxi the twelve miles into Brighton , and was dropped off at the Willett Collection , housed in the town 's museum . |
| 20 | At the very last minute Nessie handed the pig bucket to Tim , who was sitting at the back with Kevin and the children ready to jump off at the road end . |
| 21 | The truck took us to where the Imlil-Toubkal road branched off at the market town of Asni and there we swapped to the normal ‘ shared taxis ’ into Marrakech for a merry night at the Hotel Ali — famous for its buffet dinners and the starting point for many adventures . |
| 22 | Cornelius stopped off at the telephone box to call Mr Yarrow at his home . |
| 23 | On the way home we stopped off at an alcohol centre and had a pint . |
| 24 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 25 | ‘ The sort of people John Smith was winding up at the Trade Union Conference about a return to a Golden Age , when they were back in the driving seat and great rights for their members , and a friendly government again — some of those people are beginning to make noises . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're fully booked up at the Hospitality Unit , ’ said Sir Bryan , ‘ but Mrs. Mackintosh can easily lay on a cold lunch for them here . |
| 27 | Contestants will line up at the Blundellsands Hotel , Crosby , at 8am on Sunday and will then parade through the city centre before setting off on their cross-Channel jaunt . |
| 28 | But something made him glance up at the lounge window as he approached . |
| 29 | Karelius peered out at the theatre lamps glowing through the mist . |
| 30 | He had been picked out at an identification parade only after his photograph had been shown to the prosecution witnesses — three criminals who got shorter sentences for helping the police . |