Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | She made her way across the factory floor and it was when she was nearly back at the occupational health centre that she heard a whistle . |
| 32 | Glancing carefully round at the little groups of guests she saw that Ian had already claimed Joanna , but there was no sign of Robert . |
| 33 | On the top floor of 32 , Mrs Mackintosh stared nervously out at the dark street . |
| 34 | He seems to sweep aside rational analysis only to let it come back in at the ideological level , and underplays the processes of getting the ideology established in the face of organizational resistance . |
| 35 | Cowley looked back up at the rising heights of St Paul 's . |
| 36 | Stavros Niachos , 81 , will neither confirm nor deny that he was the buyer of Yo , Picasso , the 1901 self-portrait of the artist at his easel , staring boldly out at the new century ; but it certainly went to the bidder who has often acted on his behalf . |
| 37 | She stared unseeingly down at the red stain on the Chester 's blue and green flowered fabric , then gathered her wits to dab at it slowly with her heavy cream damask napkin she took from the table . |
| 38 | Glancing disparagingly down at the mismatched clothing , his mouth twisted . |
| 39 | In any case , the name of the game here seems to be performance-friendly and so you are immediately in at the sharp end with patch number 11 . |
| 40 | I 'm , well I work part-time down at the local library . |
| 41 | Peter Farrell snapped , looking at Crossley then down at the injured James . |
| 42 | Benjamin and I just stared speechlessly down at the abbey , then up at the great Tor . |
| 43 | Then back at the green image on the screen . |
| 44 | She looked round at the cuttings strewn on the floor and then back at the blank screen . |
| 45 | Sweetheart stared at the mess on the kitchen floor , then at the unhappy little boy , then back at the ruined flowers . |
| 46 | They stared silently out at the gentle panorama until their reveries were interrupted by loud barking from the graveyard . |
| 47 | But there was a figure at the window , looking silently out at the opaque sky . |
| 48 | Isabel glanced warily around at the silent forest , seeing nothing but dripping trees , ablaze with the autumn colours that even the dismal weather could not dim . |
| 49 | He slowed his delivery to linger emphatically on each syllable of the French expression " mission civilisatrice , " gazing proudly around at the assembled gathering as he did so . |
| 50 | People glanced fearfully around at the impassive troops , waiting for the executions to start . |
| 51 | He turned away , apparently satisfied , then pushed the glasses back into his pocket , flashed the torch briefly down at the rough stones of the pier , and went away with long strides in the direction of the house . |
| 52 | He gazed briefly down at the new baby , pink in its cradle ; and said nothing . |
| 53 | Afterwards , incongruously dressed in a raincoat , she went to the bows and stared briefly down at the mesmerising onrush of sea where it split and foamed at Wavebreaker 's cutwater . |
| 54 | Then Saturday morning she 'd load up again and start off round down at the round Mill Corner along the Piste for the and back and then across to the where you come from Ely and all those houses along there and she 'd get home about one o'clock from there . |
| 55 | She looked hastily up at the rising land behind her , saw nobody , and hitched her skirts up to tuck them into her waistband . |
| 56 | He stood for a while , looking round about at the quiet dunes and the settling birds . |
| 57 | He 's actually back at the working class Blackburn Rovers he managed before that , where he had to scrape for money and look for bargains . |
| 58 | Folly stared blankly out at the speeding countryside and tried to work out what her strategy should be . |