Example sentences of "[adv] at the [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He loves jumping , and he loves the atmosphere , especially at the indoor shows where it is more immediate — a packed arena with a receptive crowd seems to lift his performance . |
| 2 | He looked down at the other hand neatly folded in his lap . |
| 3 | He lifted her up on to the parapet of a little bridge , and she screamed , looking down at the dark water below . |
| 4 | Tom stopped at the corner of the small road near the corset shop and glanced down at the tiny alleyway where the artist 's shop stood . |
| 5 | He looked down at the yawning drop below . |
| 6 | Instead of presenting a strong , clear answer to this misconception , many Christians show that their defences are down at the very place where modern unbelief is most devastating . |
| 7 | When they 're doing that others will be collating the information and hopefully er , the television cameras , B B C have expressed an interest in coming down and so have the newspapers to actually do erm some sort of documentary on that , and put a display up in the school and also down at the Royal Quays just linked to us . |
| 8 | He 'd probably had an extra delivery to make , perhaps at the occupied row further along the road . |
| 9 | Besides , if Maidstone could predict so accurately when Elsie would appear then it would be a simple matter to find her again — perhaps at the same time tomorrow . |
| 10 | This manifests itself most obviously at the technical level where the same basic skills can be applied in different markets . |
| 11 | There were many cases where Bloomsbury House was involved not at all , or only at the last moment when it was generally too late to offer any constructive help . |
| 12 | The University of Munich has nearly 45 000 and Berlin 's free University has more than 47 000 , with another 25 000 or so at the Technical University there . |
| 13 | He did so at the last moment when the Unionists agreed not to oppose Henderson . |
| 14 | So these dare devils have got 6 months to dry out before diving in at the deep end once again . |
| 15 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 16 | Yes , it 's disappointing , but when someone comes in at the last minute then the adrenalin flows and you can have a very lively show . |
| 17 | Along at the High School where the films were being shown , Charlie Chaplin was starring with Paulette Goddard in The Great Dictator ( 1940 ) and at the Statdtheater George Tabori 's Mein Kampf was playing in the evenings while , during the day , there was a week-long symposium entitled Mein Kampf — Theatre after Auschwitz . |
| 18 | Erm which they start they 're supposed to be running together at the same time when they 'll start I do n't know . |
| 19 | The following observations follow those on the agenda , and of course will be dealt with together at the same time so far as possible . |
| 20 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 21 | The activated enzyme was then supposed to eat away at the synaptic membrane so as to expose more NMDA receptor sites which , until thus exposed , remain buried in the membrane surface and hence inactive . |
| 22 | He looked away at the dense thicket where the three hounds were working . |
| 23 | Emily turned and walked up the wide staircase , looking painfully at the bare walls where paintings of her ancestors had hung for generations . |
| 24 | There is no doubt that the removal of the child by this mother was done precipitately at the very time when the child 's future care was already under consideration by the Ontario court . |
| 25 | Not at the OK corral out west , but at the entrance to a dimly lit back court down south … of Glasgow . |
| 26 | The former detectives were not at the Old Bailey today , proceedings against them are over . |
| 27 | Prince William was still at the crawling stage when they were invited to visit Australia by the government . |
| 28 | In a bwlch or mountain pass the road cut deeply at the highest place straight through the ridge to show as a notch afar off . |
| 29 | It is because it is applied recursively at the growing tips all over the tree — branches make sub-branches , then each sub-branch makes sub-sub-branches , and so on — that the whole tree ends up large and bushy . |
| 30 | If you 've got signs on the main line saying traffic point , traffic censors ahead , you 're gon na have people saying oh sod that I 'll get off at the next junction instead |