Example sentences of "[adv prt] at the [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving bridle line ‘ C ’ slack , pull on the connector ring ( sometimes a snap and swivel is fitted instead ) so that lines ‘ A ’ and ‘ B ’ are taut and the ring is held down at the level of the rear cross-spar . |
| 2 | The buskers were at Leicester Square , deep down at the level of the Piccadilly Line . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've all got to share , ’ she said , as they passed through the swing doors and found themselves looking down at the courtyard of the Museum . |
| 4 | She was down at the scene of the picket . |
| 5 | Tallis stared down at the shard of the ruined statue and with a thrill of pleasure realized that she did : an image of the female in the land . |
| 6 | That proof showed that general relativity is only an incomplete theory : it can not tell us how the universe started off , because it predicts that all physical theories , including itself , break down at the beginning of the universe . |
| 7 | No doubt the wall was lower at some point — down at the edge of the parkland , perhaps — but she had neither the time nor the inclination to find out . |
| 8 | ‘ Room service , ’ said the waiter , glancing down at the tip of the silencer he could see pointed at him from through the white cloth covering the lower part of the trolley . |
| 9 | He puts it down at the base of the new li ga — the stripped pine trunk that all the men brought back from the forest and erected early this morning — and pours some water over the lamb 's head and in a stripe down its back to the base of the tail . |
| 10 | Nor yet the immense Catacombs down at the base of the fortress-monastery , where heroes ancient and modern lay in ranks of caskets . |
| 11 | Under the stress of the All Blacks ' tackling Dewi Morris ' passing let the Lions down at the base of the scrum and his problems were transmitted to the other midfield backs . |
| 12 | They sat at a table and looked down at the lights of the shipping in the Tagus . |
| 13 | He frowned and stared down at the grain of the table . |
| 14 | He then marched up the hall , climbed on to the dais and sat down at the head of the table there , snapping his fingers for Athelstan to join him . |
| 15 | I look down at the map of the estate . |
| 16 | Most of them are sandstones or limestones that were laid down at the bottom of the shallow seas that once covered this part of North America . |
| 17 | The house was right down at the bottom of the street , and I moved like a ghost from lamp to lamp , tiptoeing for some reason , as if I were in a jungle in dread of attracting the attention of wild animals prowling near me . |
| 18 | But Pat remembers him saying to various children : ‘ Why do n't you lay down at the bottom of the swimming pool for half an hour ? ’ |
| 19 | Just er we lived down at the bottom of the village there . |
| 20 | He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house . |
| 21 | This is actually shown to be level with the sixth step , so if the man sensibly puts the load down at the top of the stairs then 100 joules is the answer . |
| 22 | Look down at the floor of the cab , and you 'll find a lever on the left hand side for using the Antares ' fuel-saving mode . |
| 23 | The laibon simply looks down at the floor of the boma . |
| 24 | She writes about her country home : ‘ The old toad is rolling his drum down at the foot of the hill , and the crunch , crunch of the cows is near to my window over the barbecue . |
| 25 | Look down at the foot of the page and you will probably find others , occurring not so frequently but with regularity and at fixed intervals . |
| 26 | Looking down at the reflection of the stars in the still , calm sea below , she said softly , ‘ I 'm glad we came up here . |
| 27 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |
| 28 | He stamped up and down at the limit of the firelight and listened to the silence of the hills . |
| 29 | Wasps went 5-1 down at the end of the second period against Barons before Anthony Johnson and Rick Brebant pulled back three goals . |
| 30 | She had talked of a sex scene when she was on Wogan , but he assumed it would be something more romantic — a magnolia bud of a tit peeping from beneath bed linen as she held out her arms to her lover and the lights went down at the end of the play . |