Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv prt] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What I think is happening , I find this interesting , people are rejecting the idea of the aesthetic , and I 'm not quite sure why ; I do n't know whether they think it 's elitist or whether they 've got no taste of their own , or what , I do n't know , but people read poems not as poems which convey aesthetic emotion , which is the way I tend to think about poems ultimately , but simply as ideological statements and political texts , or at least , things that give you some understanding of the way people thought or so on at the time … .
2 One looked from side to side , at the two speakers , or else down at the table or , fleetingly , at one 's own side .
3 Mrs Gray looked away and then up at the portrait on the mantel shelf .
4 His mouth trembling , he looked at them both and then down at the knife-edge creases in his trousers .
5 Jack looked at their terrified eyes and then down at the computer screen .
6 I looked over the balcony , first at the stage and then back at the dance floor and beyond .
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