Example sentences of "[adv prt] at the [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked down at the other hand neatly folded in his lap . |
| 2 | He lifted her up on to the parapet of a little bridge , and she screamed , looking down at the dark water below . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He looked down at the yawning drop below . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So these dare devils have got 6 months to dry out before diving in at the deep end once again . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
| 12 | Looking up at the north-facing slope ahead you would see snow and ice and you would tremble , but you would know that coming down on the other side , you would walk in sunshine , through green grass and sweet-smelling flowers . |
| 13 | Sadie looked up at the tall boy coyly . |
| 14 | Try to keep regular hours , getting up at the same time however tired you may feel . |
| 15 | All of this has been enacted and realised and completed in Jesus himself , and the meaning of sin , so far as we are concerned , is only really opened up at the very place where it is borne and done away with . |
| 16 | Then he looked peacefully up at the white ceiling again . |
| 17 | Ebert looked up at the big man defiantly , spitting the words back at him . |
| 18 | I wiped my brow , which had become a little sweaty , and took a last look up at the shadowless wall above . |
| 19 | Looking up at the illuminated sign overhead she was glad she had not attempted to push her way in . |
| 20 | He was standing at the open window in his pyjamas , the shotgun in his hand , staring out at the front field where the black splash of a jackdaw lay on the white ground beneath the ash tree . |
| 21 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 22 | A partial parasite , mistletoe relies on birds such as thrushes eating its oily berries and dropping the seeds out at the other end on to the branches of trees where they perch . |
| 23 | I mean , it does come out at the other end very soon afterwards . |
| 24 | She rose and went to the window , still in the half-real state induced by daytime sleeping , and looked out at the darkening world where the yellow glow of a lamp in the yard showed Jem was milking . |
| 25 | Thousands of people turned out at the Royal Showground today to protest against a private members bill which aims to abolish blood sports . |
| 26 | It would n't improve my chances of pleasing the God-King if more ceptors phased out at the wrong moment so that the ship set down on top of something valuable — like the royal palace , the Divine Sanctum . |
| 27 | Determined not to show fear , Isabel stood her ground before the rage in Matilda 's eyes , staring back at the other woman defiantly . |
| 28 | But I 'd half-learned several languages on my travels , and somehow they each floated familiarly back at the first step on to the matching soil . |
| 29 | With luck Vic and Emily should be gone several hours , giving him ample time to search for evidence and be back at the white house long before they returned . |
| 30 | So she got up slowly from the floor , the last few sobs still springing unbidden up her throat , and without looking round at the disordered room once more , she picked up her lamp and went down to her bedroom to change . |