Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brushing a shaky , tired hand through her tangled blonde hair , she squinted down at the watch on her wrist . |
| 2 | She was silent a moment , thinking of Oreste and her journey to England and the future of her family and how it rested largely at the moment on Mr Landor 's £30 a year . |
| 3 | No one noticed for a month , until the contamination showed up at the filters on the primary water circuit . |
| 4 | Her mind still racing , she glanced down at the map on the passenger seat and then headed towards the road that would take her to Mountpelier Lodge . |
| 5 | He glanced down at the label on the table to check . |
| 6 | She glanced up at the clock on the wall opposite . |
| 7 | We stocked up at the hypermarket on coffee and beer at less than half English prices . |
| 8 | More than one of them remarked on how pleasant it was to return to base in the early hours , cold , cramped and tired out , to see our welcoming smiles as they called in at the office on their way down to the Mess , even though they had probably only called in to tear us off a strip for having given them a rotten weather forecast . |
| 9 | I called in at the office on one of my days off , to see what was doing , and found that a posting had come through for me to report forthwith to Group Headquarters at Huntingdon . |
| 10 | Nearly 200 vehicles pulled up at the roadside on the A38 just south of Gloucester . |
| 11 | He shrugged his shoulders and looked dumbly at the grain on the wooden table . |
| 12 | Grandson Richard stared down at the nome on his shoulder . |
| 13 | Lizzy stared down at the bandages on her wrists . |
| 14 | Ajayi sat back , putting her gloves back on , She looked doubtfully at the man on the far side of the table . |
| 15 | At last she set down her cup and looked pointedly at the clock on the kitchen wall . |
| 16 | She looked down at the notes on the small side table , and then pulled off her wore framed pince-nez . |
| 17 | She shivered , looked down at the ring on her finger . |
| 18 | She looked down at the tray on her lap . |
| 19 | He looked down at the food on his tray . |
| 20 | Gilberto Nieddu spat thoughtfully at the pigeons on the roof below . |
| 21 | On the train I looked furtively at the lock on the carriage door and watched the railway embankment carefully as if assessing the effect of falling out onto it at speed . |
| 22 | James 's eyes filled suddenly with tears , he wiped it them and looked disbelievingly at the wet on his fingers . |
| 23 | Zlorf and Ymor stared up at the figure on the threshold . |
| 24 | She looked up at the books on the shelves and reached for the closest . |
| 25 | But now … hands and handkerchiefs and newspapers waved from every window of the train , and smiling faces looked up at the children on the fence . |
| 26 | Sharpe looked up at the weathercock on the stable roof and saw the wind had backed southerly . |
| 27 | Rachaela looked out at the dusk on the snow street , and the snow piled up against the walls , the pedestrians slipping and sidling along the ice . |
| 28 | He screwed up his eyes and stared unseeingly at the calendar on the further wall . |
| 29 | Then she looked around at the men on offer , braying nightclub fools mostly , and decided that , even without racing commitments and pain , she would be planning to leave early . |
| 30 | I looked again at the passenger on my left . |