Example sentences of "[adv prt] at the [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF THE truth be known , Ian Woosnam would probably just as soon be down at the Golden Lion in Oswestry tomorrow night , having a pint or two with the lads . |
| 2 | Shamlou looked down at the cowering woman in the hearth , the petrol-sodden gown clinging to her body . |
| 3 | She peered down at the dark water in the basin below . |
| 4 | Connon stared down at the young man in the picture as if he was looking at a stranger and trying to analyse what made him seem vaguely familiar . |
| 5 | A more erudite musician — or courteous companion — you wo n't meet ; and I shall treasure for aye the memory of his sitting down at the grand piano in the front room of his Edinburgh town-house to demonstrate how two operations to his 95-year-old hands had not impaired his keyboard ability : what he then produced was some of the most sheerly beautiful bach playing I have ever heard . |
| 6 | Robyn looked down at the black bin-liner in her hands , looked up to where he sat , registered the determined , quietly angry expression on his face and then looked at the fountain . |
| 7 | Shutting the door softly behind her , Theda tiptoed to the bed and stood looking down at the still figure in some alarm . |
| 8 | Down at the Green Man in Fownhope , most locals welcome the arrival of the oilmen |
| 9 | ‘ You see — we did n't wake the children , after all , ’ Ross drawled , his eyes glinting with amusement as he gazed warmly down at the soft figure in his arms . |
| 10 | Witcher gaped down at the smoking hob in his chest . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , I do realise that , ’ she muttered , staring down at the brown liquid in the cup . |
| 12 | Quick glance down at the clear water in the bowl . |
| 13 | More tequila arrived and Rodriguez sat there staring down at the yellow-green liquid in his glass . |
| 14 | There 's been talk of seventeen and a half per cent being added to food , to public transport and to books and its now believed that VAT on domestic fuel , which was to have been introduced in stages may come in at the full rate in the spring . |
| 15 | I checked everything in at the left-luggage office in Liverpool Street station , and then went off to make a couple of telephone calls . |
| 16 | If you 've only seen a De Lorean car in the Back to the Future films then drop in at the old plant in Dunmurry on Saturday afternoon ( 3.30 ) where the dream machine was produced . |
| 17 | Glancing over at the faint quiver in the hand holding her fork , and at the nervously fluttering long eyelashes , casting dark spiky shadows on her pale , trembling cheeks , he gave her a warm and reassuring smile . |
| 18 | They will be handed over at the next town in two days . |
| 19 | David Branch , Peter Evans and David Miller had just teed off at the 15th hole in a competition . |
| 20 | Mark looked up at the tiny speck in the stratosphere and imagined he could hear the air hostess requesting passengers to fasten their seat belts . |
| 21 | But Professor Avenarius was late , and I kept watching the woman ; she was alone at the pool , standing waist-deep in the water , and she kept looking up at the young lifeguard in sweatpants who was teaching her to swim . |
| 22 | Only stare up at the gaping hole in his cage and feel the terror of the sky beyond and look at where the broken end of the great branch that had fallen spiked out into the wild sky above as if broken part lay about him , its smaller branches and torn bark fretting on the cold wind . |
| 23 | Later the same day Douglas , Duke of Hamilton — frustrated past belief turned up at the Foreign Office in London and informed them that he was seeking an urgent audience with the King . |
| 24 | The arrangements have been made so as to enable spectators to be SET DOWN AND PICKED UP AT THE SAME POINT in a city unfamiliar to them . |
| 25 | I was delighted to see my friend 's happy pudding face again , blinking up at the collapsing mansion in which our flat was located . |
| 26 | Would you really have ‘ Voulez Vous ’ over The Specials ' ‘ Gangsters ’ , or Chic 's ‘ Good Times ’ , both out at the same time in 1979 ? |
| 27 | Bear 's The Venging ( £4.99 ) is out at the same time in A format . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , in our protocol , the denaturation of plasmid DNA and degradation of the contaminating RNA is carried out at the same time in the alkaline solution at high temperature . |
| 29 | A city where the fringe theatre meant Jim Haynes , Charles Marovitz , and a few other expatriates from across the Atlantic , and avant-garde cinema a night out at the 35-year-old Academy in Oxford Street . |
| 30 | ( In a letter to the Zoological Society written on 10 May and read out at the scientific meeting in London on 8 October , Gould described 19 new species , 13 of which he stated he had received from Dr Bynoe of the Beagle . ) |