Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had gained five distinctions in his Matriculation examinations and it had been decided that he would stay on at the College until he was eighteen to take Higher School Certificate . |
| 2 | The temptation and the suspense novel , a book in which a high degree of identification both from intellectual curiosity and emotional involvement is necessary for the writer as much as the reader , is to catch hold of some intriguing initial situation , sit down at the typewriter and go racing ahead from there . |
| 3 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 4 | They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner . |
| 5 | The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room . |
| 6 | A spokesman at the hotel said he and the other members of the team had checked in at the weekend and appeared to be none the worse for their ordeal . |
| 7 | Beringed hands waved in a frenzy around Miranda 's own boldly streaked , mane-like hair , and Belinda quickly paid and left , realising she had been very lucky to get squeezed in at the salon when so many women wanted to look special for Christmas . |
| 8 | Her mother knelt down at the fireplace and lifted the iron grill from the front of the fireplace . |
| 9 | When she returned to the kitchen , she sank down at the table and tried to eat a little of the food , conscious that Craig was watching her . |
| 10 | The more intelligent networks will be able to recognise codes , keyed in at the telephone and will store much more data than is possible today . |
| 11 | Well , when I say less strenuous , I mean you leap in at the level that suits . |
| 12 | A bus drew up at the lights and the driver , an excitable Puerto Rican , climbed down from his cab to see what all the fuss was about . |
| 13 | Both Pen and Ferdinando rushed in immediately the carriage drew up at the door and wonderful was the reunion ; then within the hour the kindest of notes came from Mrs Browning begging her to find the time and energy to visit whenever she was able . |
| 14 | ‘ Moss stitch is best for ties otherwise they tend to curl up at the edges and look like a drain pipe . ’ |
| 15 | Howard went on to introduce his staff and patients , before ending up at the Doctor and Ace . |
| 16 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 17 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 18 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 19 | Finally , I propose to call no person more than once to accept that the movers will have the opportunity of winding up at the end and I would please ask you to wait until you have been called . |
| 20 | The way the ground just curled up at the edges until you lost sight of it , we could n't have crept up on a hunk of soya . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm afraid that my husband is often caught up at the hospital and so I simply do n't know whether he will be free . ’ |
| 22 | If one looks back at the text-books and review papers written about psychobiology during t , his period one finds that they were largely preoccupied with topics like motivation and emotion . |
| 23 | It was better to stand out at the beginning than to go in with the expectation that he would soon have to provoke a further crisis by resignation . |
| 24 | Nothing is more infuriating than reading about something that appeals to you , only to find out at the end that you are not eligible . |
| 25 | The attacks started after building work began on the biggest improvement scheme carried out at the centre since it first opened in 1982 . |
| 26 | ‘ Oldham like to attack but then naturally there is a chance they can be caught out at the back so it is up to us to exploit that . ’ |
| 27 | And the woman seemed in no hurry to close it and shut out the dangerous night ; she simply stood , looking down at the children and smiling . |
| 28 | But I will never forget that time we both watched your father walking back and forth in front of the summerhouse , looking down at the ground as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there . ’ |
| 29 | Her father squinted down at the page but she banged the book shut and slid it back on the shelf . |
| 30 | She wailed , standing there , looking in at the room that had nothing left of him . |