Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dyson sat pouting and rubbing his hands together , glaring down at various parts of the table . |
| 2 | Jannie sat down at one corner of the great kitchen table and began to write a shopping list . |
| 3 | Thus tree rings are differentiated by the types , density and size of cell laid down at different times of the year ; varves by the gradation in particle size resulting from sedimentation of debris released into rivers and carried to lakes by the annual melt of glaciers ; and ice core layers by differences in dust content and acidity . |
| 4 | From the parking area above , you can easily walk down at either end of the crag , but it 's much more fun to follow the path leftwards and make a free 25 metres abseil through the blow-hole in the roof of the enormous cave of Baume Percée . |
| 5 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 6 | Guns and Killing magazine currently rate her as the sixth most dangerous solo outlaw in the Americas , and she is the highest-ranked woman on the list , coming in at thirty-seven places above the Antarctic esperado Ice Kold Katie . |
| 7 | Besides China in second place , India comes in at fifth place in the league , and Mexico and Brazil are also both bigger than Canada , currently the G7 's seventh man . |
| 8 | Shifts split up the family so that men would be coming in at all hours of the day , waiting for the bath-tin and the water and a woman to wash their backs . |
| 9 | In a cavity between it and the central part of the body , most species have gills which are continually bathed by a current of oxygen-bearing water , sucked in at one end of the cavity and expelled at the other . |
| 10 | And what sort of conditions were you working in at that time in the shipyards ? |
| 11 | The twin solutions to equation ( 9.15 ) of equal positive and negative phase shifts correspond to the possibility of feeding a signal in at either end of the symmetric section and loading it with its characteristic impedance at the other end . |
| 12 | Donations to the ‘ Around the Isles ’ charity fund for multiple sclerosis may be paid in at any branch of the Halifax Building Society and Bank of Scotland . |
| 13 | Outside of London , too , generally over the South , the West and the South-east , a decline in real wages set in at some point in the two decades centred on 1760 , as money wages fell behind rising prices . |
| 14 | Mr David Wickert , a charity 's aid organiser who commutes from Kent four times a week , said : ‘ Hurtling along at 60 mph with the train crammed full is terribly dangerous . |
| 15 | The ends of the rivets were bent over at right angles on the back of the shield making it possible to calculate that the wooden boards of the complete circular shields were 0.5 to 1.5 cm thick . |
| 16 | Inside , the headmaster 's room is partitioned off at one end of the building . |
| 17 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
| 18 | The dark a long way off at each end of the day |
| 19 | She set her alarm clock to go off at hourly intervals throughout the night , but even before its first summons she was disturbed . |
| 20 | One beltless man , in an official car , signalled to turn right into the car park , saw our photographer , abruptly changed his mind and drove off at high speed down the street . |
| 21 | In ‘ random mode ’ , the time controller will switch an appliance on and off at random intervals during the four ON periods already set for the programme mode . |
| 22 | I told him we were simply adapting the phrase from the social security regulations , where for years it has worked perfectly satisfactorily in deciding whether or not a worker should get benefit if he is laid off at another workplace from the one where a dispute is taking place . |
| 23 | She was pissed off at missing Triste at the bar , but there would be other jobs . |
| 24 | Any information the client is interested in can be printed off at any stage during the search . |
| 25 | The encounter can break off at any stage in the process of escalation . |
| 26 | However , over a period of time , and partly encouraged by urban planning policies , commuter villages have grown up at greater distances from the cities . |
| 27 | they 've lined one up at each end of the field so it , it looks like they 're saying , well , you know that 's a parcel of land . |
| 28 | His early ventures into freelance design had been reasonably successful ; with Leonie 's encouragement he worked long hours as a restaurant porter to earn enough money to buy a couple of ancient industrial machines which he set up at one end of the living room of his mother 's house . |
| 29 | The children line up at one end of the room with the organizer ( grandmother ) at the other . |
| 30 | The bears line up at one end of the room . |