Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now these houses were of the kind that when you walk in through the door at the front you go into a l sitting room , through the next door is what can be a kitchen cum living room , and the staircase is n't immediately obvious but what it is is it 's a door that looks like a cupboard . |
| 2 | Just then Uncle Alfred and Sylvia Swan arrived and peeped in through the gate at the happy crowd . |
| 3 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 4 | He launched a great shout of : ‘ Espérance Percy ! ’ behind him , waved a hand at the squire who carried his guidon , settled his lance , and plunged headlong down into the river at the ford they had marked out for the centre , and out again in a flurry of muddy spray on the levels beyond , with the whole company of his knights and squires and mounted men-at-arms hurtling after him . |
| 5 | From there they went darting across the boiling surface like a dragon-fly , skimming with the currents where the banks were swept too open and smooth to hold flotsam , swinging aside round the sergeant 's paddle in the marked spots ; round the shovel-shaped end of Eel Island , which had scooped up a full load of branches , twigs , uprooted grass , and even more curious trophies , but not what they were seeking ; a little way down the sluggish backwater beyond , until motion ceased in stagnant shallows , and still there was nothing ; out into the flood again , hopping back on to the current as on to a moving belt that whisked them away ; revolving out of the race again where the trees leaned down into the water at the curve by the Lacey farm , acting like a great , living grille to filter out debris ; clean across the width of the river at the next coil , to where the long , sandy shallow ran out and encircled a miniature beach . |
| 6 | Do n't you … no , I rarely go down into the town at the weekends . |
| 7 | One thing she has pointed out , which I find absolutely fascinating , is this triangular trap I 'm in with the victim at the bottom and the persecutor and rescuer at the top . |
| 8 | Rory could n't suppress a soft chuckle at the thought , and he looked down from the stepladder at the sound . |
| 9 | ‘ I feel sorry for that woman , ’ thought the bachelor as he stepped down from the train at the next station . |
| 10 | The Marshal sat down in the gloom at the plush-covered table and faced the tearful woman across a bowl of plastic fruit . |
| 11 | And erm she said all right and I said what do I do with them and she said I 'll put them down in the base at the back and I said all right so I went back on the shop floor just before I was coming out come out . |
| 12 | She sat down in the chair at the head of the cot and very carefully slid her forefinger into the baby 's hand . |
| 13 | Before her astonished eyes he calmly sat down in the chair at the opposite side of the desk . |
| 14 | Lachy sat down on the pillow at the head of the bed , breathing hard . |
| 15 | In the Tokyo stock market the Nikkei Average also fell back during November from 25,000 to 23,500 , as the implications of slowing economic growth and stock market scandals [ see p. 38558 ] took their toll : this was 13 per cent below its 1991 peak in May , and 41 per cent down on the position at the end of 1989 . |
| 16 | The harvest was reported on Sept. 19 as being 40,000,000 tonnes down on the amount at the same time in 1990 . |
| 17 | I can remember doing Bartholomew Fair at the Royal Court Theatre with the NYT and seeing all the scenery and lighting down on the stage at the end of the last performance and thinking how exciting it was to belong to the world of make-believe . |
| 18 | He led them to within thirty yards of the unsuspecting deer , then motioned for Joseph to sit down on the ground at the edge of the plain . |
| 19 | There are times when I go down to the beach at The Pit and I 'm the only surfer down there and I 'm so frustrated with it all that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 20 | Here the eye is naturally drawn down to the urn at the end of the vista . |
| 21 | The three children went down to the station at the right time , dressed in their best clothes , and the Station Master came to meet them . |
| 22 | I lift my head up and look down to the floor at the foot of the bed , where Andy is lying curled up in his sleeping bag , unseen in the shadows , which is why I was being quiet . |
| 23 | I sort of start running now to find a way out quick , but this wire fence goes all the way down to the wall at the other end and I ca n't find no door in it . |
| 24 | From here I found , as I had hoped , that I could see down to the shore at the point where Neil had told me he wanted to work . |
| 25 | Follow the path down to the tramroad at the two gates . |
| 26 | Archie , my eldest boy who lived at Belton , used to bring the groceries down to the cart-shod at the other side of the river . |
| 27 | But er I can remember being in Evay and a funeral there and to me it was very strange because they carried the coffin from the kirk right down to the kirkyard at the pier . |
| 28 | Nowadays , Saint-Jean deals chiefly in the large if unappetizing tuna and the extremely appetizing but , compared with the whale , somewhat trivial catch , of anchovies ; but it is a town that smells very satisfactorily of brine and can be loud with the engines of trawlers if you go down to the harbour at the right moment . |
| 29 | Morse thanked the man , and walked along to the ramp at the side of the flats , and down to a concreted area where five garages directly in front of him shielded the immediate view . |
| 30 | Make a note of the job number that you are interested in and take it along to the clerk at the desk . |