Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [art] light " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 2 | They sat at a table and looked down at the lights of the shipping in the Tagus . |
| 3 | I stand in front of it and look up at the lights . |
| 4 | I mean , she do n't even look up at the lights . |
| 5 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |
| 6 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 7 | As we pulled up at the lights , he leaped out , kicked the wheel cap back into place , grinned and said , ‘ Thanks , it happens about every two years or so , ’ got back in his car , then signalled equally wildly for me to wind down my window . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So next time you catch up at the lights with the smug so and so who was stuck to your bumper a mile back , with all the understanding you can muster just remind him that : ‘ There , there dear , size is n't everything you know . ’ |
| 10 | I stop under a lamppost and look up at the light , all orange and flickery . |
| 11 | He blinked up at the light . |
| 12 | Even so , thought Fergus , staring up at the light , even so , there is something Dierdriu did not tell me . |
| 13 | Look up at the light , blink rapidly , breathe deeply from the diaphragm — yes , I do all of those things . |
| 14 | When he hired a taxi to take her to Eastbourne for the day ( the same man who took a bus to the theatre , rather than pay for a cab ) she jumped out at the lights near Oval cricket ground because she was so disturbed by his erratic behaviour . |
| 15 | He looked back at the light coming from the observatory cupboard , now a good twenty feet away , and thought about going back ; this whole prank was becoming a bit much , really . |
| 16 | ‘ And it 's straight on at the lights for the Butcher Building , by the way . ’ |