Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This card may be placed next to the model or face up at the table edge to indicate that it is in play . |
| 2 | Dexter sat back in his armchair , unsure whether to laugh outright or smile knowingly at the businessman 's practical joke . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Go and sit up at the table erm Christopher . |
| 5 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 6 | Foinavon had been trained by Tom Dreaper in Ireland for Arkle 's owner Anne , Duchess of Westminster , but while in Dreaper 's charge had been notable mainly for his extraordinarily laid-back demeanour : in a chase at Baldoyle he was in the lead when falling at the third fence , throwing Pat Taaffe well clear , but Foinavon did not bother to scramble to his feet , preferring to remain on the ground and pick quietly at the grass beside him . |
| 7 | I quickly learned that pointing the camera and flash straight at the glass of the aquarium did not work . |
| 8 | A ripe melon will smell sweet , and yield slightly at the stalk end . |
| 9 | I 've had some armchairs brought in and put there at the window in case you want to talk to people more informally than around the table . ’ |
| 10 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 11 | I stop under a lamppost and look up at the light , all orange and flickery . |
| 12 | I enter the day and date in my diary and look again at the entry of the 12th June . |
| 13 | Immediately they stop talking and look anxiously at the door . |
| 14 | ‘ We could sit on this rock , ’ Hope pointed to a jutting flat stone , ‘ and look out at the lake . ’ |
| 15 | This warning whetted my appetite for I used to crawl to the edge and look down at the water which was usually quite near the top as this part of the city is barely above river level . |
| 16 | Then step into your body and look back at the scene . |
| 17 | what must I do ? and look back at the house |
| 18 | My left foot ledged on the hinge , and look in at the byre 's |
| 19 | There is just time to lift the curtain and peep out at the scene in the street , then to dash upstairs , stand on the bathroom stool and see what the picture is like from that angle . |
| 20 | Every night a vila — a wicked fairy who lived in the clouds and mist up at the top of the mountain-caused the whole hillside to tremble and heave so that the walls fell down , the stones fell apart , and all their work was to do again . |
| 21 | Not waste time and get straight at the problem . |
| 22 | I used to walk between the two parts of the building — that is between my studio/study and the main house — and stare up at the pulley that hangs over the hall , an imitation of the one that hung there in the days when a real miller hoisted his sacks of grain . |
| 23 | This somehow led to a discussion on local football and I discovered that there were eleven fit men and true down at the Kingdom Hall . |
| 24 | Dorcas saw a human take off its coat and flap uselessly at the fire . |
| 25 | That poor unfortunate had to stoke the fire , pump the tilly lamps , dash upstream to unblock the water pipe , boil the kettle — on the open fire — and arrive back at the card table an exhausted , nervous wreck . |
| 26 | When Betjeman failed his Divinity exams at the end of his first year , it would have been open to his tutor to plead for him with the College so that he could resit these comparatively unimportant exams and stay on at the University . |
| 27 | Continue to beautiful Lake Powell and stay overnight at the Holiday Inn or similar . |
| 28 | A chef would never leave a kitchen with food out on the worktops at the end of the day , and front desk is always tidied at the end of a shift , but how many managers do more than simply turn off the computer and go home at the end of a session with their spreadsheet or word processor ? |
| 29 | Follow the track to post eight and turn left at the track junction at post nine . |
| 30 | Head south and turn left at the point where you see a track on the right to North Appleford . |