Example sentences of "[adv prt] at a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses . |
| 2 | Holly stood beside a poorly dug hole and he looked down at a T-shaped junction of pipes and saw that the screw-fastened aperture that gave access to the pipe join and its subsidiary were swathed in doth and knotted around in plastic sheeting . |
| 3 | They had sat opposite each other in a compartment crowded with Able Seamen , he watching the darkening fields flying outside the window and Bunny staring down at a single sheet of notepaper , pale blue in colour , which he held on his jigging knee and from whose fold poked a sprig of crab apple in bloom . |
| 4 | Eva was coming in at a high spot of the Army 's history . |
| 5 | We found that the wound margin moves in at a steady rate of 10–15μm per hour , and the wound is closed within 18 to 24 hours . |
| 6 | In both programmes , spectators happen to be present , peering in at a comic version of the star 's life . |
| 7 | You know , I feel that is left , left angina , because I 've got to rip the brassiere off at a certain time of the day |
| 8 | This had a crippling effect on the worse off at a crucial stage of recovery from the Famine . |
| 9 | A head flew off at a sideways flick of Ewan 's sword . |
| 10 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |
| 11 | Horowitz stood in the corridor , hands in his trench-coat pocket , staring up at a framed portrait of the founder , Lance Buckmaster . |
| 12 | Finally , even if all the factors mentioned so far are not influencing the cat , it may still turn its nose up at a particular dish of food . |
| 13 | Ashley looked up at a grey ball of a cloud which hung directly overhead . |
| 14 | I myself found at the entrance of one of them a small neatly-worked tomahawk , of an inch and a half in length , together with some slips of blue cotton rags , which the birds had doubtless picked up at a deserted encampment of the natives . ’ |
| 15 | She looked at a big BMW bike parked by the kerb , then up at a darkened row of tall houses . |
| 16 | Profits are made by lending money out at a higher rate of interest than that paid to depositors . |
| 17 | The commendation reads : ‘ A difficult rescue was carried out at a high degree of risk to the crew . |
| 18 | Of course , very often garments require a number of stitches that do not work out at a neat number of pattern repeats , so you do n't HAVE to much patterns at side seams . |
| 19 | Neat salt , put on at a light rate of spread is just enough to de-ice the road surface . |