Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The windows of the five-storey buildings , with ornate wrought-iron balconies , peered down condescendingly at the passers-by , smug in their classic mantles of ivy and flowering creepers . |
| 2 | Guido drew up abruptly at the side of the road . |
| 3 | In the 100 metres Allan got away to a fine start , I came through fast at the end , there was a photo-finish between us and he got the verdict . |
| 4 | She tensed up immediately at the prospect of seeing him again , but when she turned right round her heart flipped idiotically in her chest . |
| 5 | Although the break was a nasty one , McCracken came back successfully at the beginning of 1921–22 when the Palace made their debut in Division Two and he played more games for us in that division than anyone else during our four year tenure there 1921–25 . |
| 6 | And that 's one of the things that you came out right at the time , I needed something really swanky for a caption for Rolling Stone . |
| 7 | His attention to the style of his premiership shone through even at the age of ninety , twenty years after his departure from No. 10 , in a television interview with Ludovic Kennedy : |
| 8 | he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm . |
| 9 | Every head turned up automatically at the sound of the furnace engine . |
| 10 | Rigby was surprised when Gedge turned up beforehand at the town 's Tesco stores where she had a Saturday job . |
| 11 | The controversy over criteria for granting Latvian citizenship flared up again at the end of March , when President Anatolijs Gorbunovs proposed that a referendum be held on the issue [ for October and November 1991 controversy see p. 38585 ] . |
| 12 | She glanced up now at the night sky , her eyes searching among the infinitesimal pin-points of light , and wondered if he was out there somewhere , had approved of her bright , carefree behaviour tonight . |
| 13 | The floor was of polished cedar wood and I glanced round enviously at the stools covered with red satin and silver tassels : ‘ T.C. ’ , Wolsey 's personal monogram , was everywhere , sometimes a foot high in carved gold . |
| 14 | With a little inner sigh Shiona turned to the window and gazed out thoughtfully at the loch . |
| 15 | Holly worked on alone at the lathe that fashioned the chairs ' legs . |
| 16 | She was hard at work in her jealously private workshop , though she called in briefly at the library from time to time , and I was invited back to the Lodge for meals some evenings . |
| 17 | This was the final straw for Mrs B who broke down completely at the thought that her daughter could still think of her mother when this horrible thing was happening to her . |
| 18 | It is only prudent with most of the Dale 's ‘ Wares tied up here at the fortress . |
| 19 | Or paper bags tied up tight at the neck . |
| 20 | Then a second CIS trainer backed Alexeyev 's version , but on Thursday Russian Olympic chief Vitaly Smirnov disagreed and on Friday Kurlovich himself hit back savagely at the accusation . |
| 21 | They did not hear the fire which broke out downstairs at the house late on Monday night . |
| 22 | He looked down angrily at the man who had been so uselessly injured . |
| 23 | She looked down miserably at the table-top ; then looked up again as Morse elaborated : |
| 24 | ‘ We always wore trunks or pants when we went in the river , but just once , I stopped out to wash on one of the river beaches with nothing on , and went in just at the edge to rinse myself down . |
| 25 | She shifted from foot to foot and stared up impatiently at the gallery of offices that ran around the walls . |
| 26 | She looked up eagerly at the sound of footsteps , but then , as she saw the two women , with an almost human expression of disappointment she turned her head away and with a heavy sigh lowered her head to her paws . |
| 27 | The aide-de-camp was quietly providing a running translation of the senator 's remarks and the governor looked up sharply at the mention of the word " independence . " |
| 28 | He looked up sharply at the sound of the door — Again ? he thought disbelievingly , and he winced as the movement aggravated the mild headache that he 'd brought home with him . |
| 29 | Montgomery looked up gratefully at the sound of rattling cups . |
| 30 | Cardiff looked up then at the Constable , still dabbing at a fresh nosebleed with his now-crimson handkerchief . |