Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] at [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course . |
| 2 | So next time you catch up at the lights with the smug so and so who was stuck to your bumper a mile back , with all the understanding you can muster just remind him that : ‘ There , there dear , size is n't everything you know . ’ |
| 3 | I look over at the posters on the wall . |
| 4 | I cast one longing glance up at the cliffs of Coire Ardair , where the sun was glancing off the icy tips of gleaming rock , and I knew that next time I 'd get the sucker . |
| 5 | I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house . |
| 6 | Now look back at the extracts from Lawrence , Boyle , Ozick , Betjeman and Joyce . |
| 7 | He was a ‘ chest case ’ for years and when I look back at the photographs of him he 's always trying to look normal but actually his face is pained from trying to breathe . |
| 8 | But more complex emotions creep in at the fringes of the tale , where the grandfather 's ostracism of the man his daughter loves leads to several fraught emotional scenes . |
| 9 | The arms positioned alongside the body turn in at the elbows with the hands over the groin . |
| 10 | Maggie 's eyes are long and wide like certain nuts , and they turn up at the ends like maidens from Disney . |
| 11 | " But my mistresses go home to their husbands for Christmas , and although I could stay at the Covington-Pyms and ride out with the hunt on Boxing Day morning , and call round at the Moons on my way back to cheer up poor Marie … |