Example sentences of "[adv] at [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While ideally this should be the chairman there may be someone even better at it in the group . |
| 2 | So clearly now , the , there 's some merit in looking afresh at it in the light of five B , being able to match the kind of funding that 's available there . |
| 3 | A six inch deep channel of water still flowed over their wader clad feet as they stood in a rough circle looking down at something in the mud . |
| 4 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 5 | As I write , he nods down at me from the wall beside my desk ; shining brass-reel in place , cast and flies still ready for action , waiting for the last trumpet to sound . |
| 6 | ‘ And do n't dare tell me it 's going to be too tough for a woman , ’ Mariana shouted , as she glared down at him from the saloon . |
| 7 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 8 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 9 | The villagers looked down at it with the satisfaction of those who could n't swim and certainly would n't want to try . |
| 10 | So that we 've got to get land in at something in the order of ten to fifteen thousand pounds an acre for residential development , and that obviously is hugely under the going rate . |
| 11 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 12 | And mummy 's smiling in at him from the outside , look she 's hanging the washing out pretending not to notice what 's going on . |
| 13 | Around nine o'clock on what was now her third night at the Lodge she looked up from the page and saw a face at the dark window staring in at her through the rain . |
| 14 | He looked mischievously at her over the top of his paper . |
| 15 | In the early days of the band , before John arrived , he 'd beaver away at us in the pub , making us think through our attitudes We ’ d be sitting there talking about music and he 'd dive in . |
| 16 | She had brought herself a new swimsuit but after she had changed she 'd stared critically at herself in the mirror in the changing-room . |
| 17 | It was only a couple coming in from the terrace , and she was about to look away again when she caught sight of a tall , stooping man standing outside and peering lugubriously at her through the glass . |
| 18 | And for Richardson , the best of times is not at one in the morning when he has suddenly awoken and jumped out of bed . |
| 19 | I 'm interested , but not at anything like the price . ’ |
| 20 | As we walked along the track from the car park on that sparkling May morning , swifts skimmed low over our heads after swarming gnats , dainty white lady 's smock swayed in the breeze , and a little owl stared solemnly and unblinkingly at us from the fork of an oak tree . |
| 21 | He arrived home at one in the morning . |
| 22 | ‘ Ooh la la , ’ said Nour , looking up to smile directly at me with the triumph of the creature who knows himself to be irresistible . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've never seen so many motorbikes at once before , ’ Maria confessed , staring disbelievingly at one in the lane alongside , two small children wedged between youthful-looking adults . |
| 24 | Madame Gebrec gazed earnestly at her across the table . |
| 25 | He lay grinning up at me on the water , spreadeagled on his back with his arms splayed . |
| 26 | When at last the child was comforted , Māilo looked up at me across the fire . |
| 27 | I had reached the letter " C " and as the word " Castration " looked up at me from the page I was jerked back to Rory . |
| 28 | Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms . |
| 29 | Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright , astonished and disarmed , and burst into a muted crow of laughter . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's hot , ’ she murmured , peeping suggestively up at him over the rim of her cup . |