Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it properly refereed or passed through at the urgings of the editor ? |
| 2 | This card may be placed next to the model or face up at the table edge to indicate that it is in play . |
| 3 | He appealed for members to comment by ringing Brenda on Middlesbrough 244860 or calling in at the club . |
| 4 | If you were sick or unemployed ( provided you sent in sick notes to your Social Security office or signed on at the Unemployment Benefit office ) ; |
| 5 | They may have been open-fronted , the borders of the open seam being either fastened together or pinned back at the breast , again with brooches and pins . |
| 6 | Artists know that this has happened , but much of the art establishment has n't caught up with events , or looked back at the past in the light of that . |
| 7 | The Stormtex outer gives the jacket a fair amount of shower and wind protection ; excellent for hillwalking and hanging about at the bottom of climbs . |
| 8 | Based on an 8km circuit of the Can and Chelmer , teams could opt to race 40 or 80km and change over at the race centre as often as they liked . |
| 9 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 10 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
| 11 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 12 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 13 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 14 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
| 15 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 16 | Go and sit up at the table erm Christopher . |
| 17 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 18 | Like Flynn before him , Fonda can not stay in the town he has tamed and rides out at the fade-out into the desert . |
| 19 | I called out that we were ready , but there was no answer , and when I returned to the bedroom I found her lying back full length on the bed , her eyes open and gazing up at the ceiling with that same vacant stare . |
| 20 | Now he must go away and I dare say I shall never see him again , ’ Joan said woefully , lagging behind despite Anne 's grumbles and gazing down at the ring . |
| 21 | But she has this threatening jacket , a dark linen one which she can pop on over the Lycra , and it has big shoulders and big assertive buttons and nips in at the waist , and this means , ‘ Fun I may be , but business is business and I will rip your arms and legs off in the boardroom if you let me . ’ |
| 22 | Small mesh stiff netting from the garden centre , suitably stretched and weighed down at the edges is another method . |
| 23 | When I take two and found out at the end of it there was a bit of erm Die Hard cos they 're a bit at this . |
| 24 | She 'd got the job after being made redundant and signing on at the job centre . |
| 25 | At the foot of the mound they halted and peered up at the statue , eerie under its glaze of ice , which stared sightlessly far above their heads . |
| 26 | He affixed a small jewellers ' eyeglass to his eye , and peered in at the device 's workings more closely . |
| 27 | The trainer leaned over me and peered down at the leg . |
| 28 | Then I opened my fingers wide and peered down at the floor . |
| 29 | The Doctor snapped out of his reverie and peered down at the Cell , still clasped in Bernice 's grip . |
| 30 | Francis stopped and peered down at the complex of buildings . |