Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [art] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 2 | Wycliffe was booked in at a hotel on the waterfront , up river from the wharf and facing the village of Flushing across a narrow stretch of water . |
| 3 | Then they built a sand-castle with ramparts and a moat and turrets , and stopped off at a café on their way home and treated themselves to a delicious cream tea . |
| 4 | Brushing a shaky , tired hand through her tangled blonde hair , she squinted down at the watch on her wrist . |
| 5 | The blade came down at an angle on my first finger , but chopped straight through the rest . |
| 6 | But despite a minor stoppage outside splendid sunlit Durham , you could feel the power of the new class 91 locomotives clawing back at the clock on the run in to Newcastle . |
| 7 | Although there were some variations as the election campaign unfolded , the thrust of the Tory message on law and order did not deviate from the plan drawn up at the meeting on 7 July 1978 . |
| 8 | Involuntarily Wycliffe turned to look back at the house on stilts , but it was hidden by a bulge in the slope of the hill … |
| 9 | Look back at the section on decimal place values and check : unc Notice that the place value of the last figure tells you the size of the denominator . |
| 10 | Her mind still racing , she glanced down at the map on the passenger seat and then headed towards the road that would take her to Mountpelier Lodge . |
| 11 | He glanced down at the label on the table to check . |
| 12 | She glanced up at the clock on the wall opposite . |
| 13 | We stocked up at the hypermarket on coffee and beer at less than half English prices . |
| 14 | Every Sunday he turns out at a hall on a council scheme in Edinburgh to play 5-a-side football with his friends , trying by his own admission to re-live some of the opportunities he missed when he left Carrick Vale Secondary School at 15 to pursue a professional football career in London . |
| 15 | More than one of them remarked on how pleasant it was to return to base in the early hours , cold , cramped and tired out , to see our welcoming smiles as they called in at the office on their way down to the Mess , even though they had probably only called in to tear us off a strip for having given them a rotten weather forecast . |
| 16 | I called in at the office on one of my days off , to see what was doing , and found that a posting had come through for me to report forthwith to Group Headquarters at Huntingdon . |
| 17 | Today he would have liked to remain at Hillmarden for another night , but he had promised Celia he would call in at the clinic on his way back to London , knowing he had a very busy week coming which might make it impossible to see her again until the following weekend . |
| 18 | Nearly 200 vehicles pulled up at the roadside on the A38 just south of Gloucester . |
| 19 | Grandson Richard stared down at the nome on his shoulder . |
| 20 | She looked down at a letter on the table in front of her , collecting her thoughts . |
| 21 | She shivered , looked down at the ring on her finger . |
| 22 | She looked down at the tray on her lap . |
| 23 | He looked down at the food on his tray . |
| 24 | Zlorf and Ymor stared up at the figure on the threshold . |
| 25 | Dolly looked up at a knock on the door . |
| 26 | Sharpe looked up at the weathercock on the stable roof and saw the wind had backed southerly . |
| 27 | Rachaela looked out at the dusk on the snow street , and the snow piled up against the walls , the pedestrians slipping and sidling along the ice . |
| 28 | Lined up at the roadside on the southern side of the gates , were the three fire tenders with their two-man crews in the cabs . |
| 29 | In the living room , Dennis lay across the sofa on his stomach , face flabbed up at an angle on a cushion , mouth gaping . |
| 30 | The agreement to form separate groups was worked out at a meeting on Feb. 10 at the presidential residence in Lany , attended also by Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel , who numbered many Liberal Club supporters among his closest associates but who had remained outside the conflict . |