Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't find it , but buried right down at the bottom she did find a tape cassette in a box . |
| 2 | Right down at the bottom there by the apple tree . |
| 3 | The late sun setting over the mainland lays a bright path over the water , coming right in at the small bay . |
| 4 | To Ronni 's surprise , and apparently also to Guido 's , Silvia stared humbly down at the ground for a moment . |
| 5 | Tessa watched him , completely absorbed in him , as he sat wearily down at the table again , located the brown sugar among the remains of the breakfast things , and dug a spoonful out to lick at . |
| 6 | Tristan made a noncommittal gesture and his brother sank wearily down at the table . |
| 7 | Gav stood by the hall table , shifting his weight from side to side and glancing nervously down at the phone now and again . |
| 8 | 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 … . |
| 9 | No that 's only on at the weekends darling |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't care ! ’ she told him rebelliously , scowling unhappily down at the small amount of red wine still in her glass . |
| 11 | So our performance , in terms of F T Es per thousand pound , per thousand item , should be running more or less along at the November December level . |
| 12 | ‘ You walk to your London office in preference to using your car on your non-interviewing days ? ’ he enquired , and Fabia looked swiftly down at the carpet . |
| 13 | ‘ You see — we did n't wake the children , after all , ’ Ross drawled , his eyes glinting with amusement as he gazed warmly down at the soft figure in his arms . |
| 14 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 15 | Dotty looked thoughtfully down at the tablecloth . |
| 16 | He looked thoughtfully down at the white box , Mo 's coffin . |
| 17 | As Ross watched her gazing fondly down at the babies , whose heads were already covered with dark hair , and — so Laura had firmly informed him — were carbon copies of their father , he knew that he was an incredibly lucky man . |
| 18 | Thomas was motor-crazy , she thought , gazing fondly down at the small dungareed figure . |
| 19 | But as it was Dod , I took my fifty quid and free ploughman 's lunches ( not that Canning Town 's seen a ploughman since Shakespeare packed 'em in over at the Globe in Southwark ) and we humped boxes and sat in traffic jams and set the world to rights . |
| 20 | THEY thought it was all over at the BBC 21 years ago when they switched off the most famous football commentating voice of all , Kenneth Wolstenholme . |
| 21 | So a sudden death play-off was required to settle the matter and it was almost all over at the 19th hole . |
| 22 | She went hot all over at the thought , too upset to understand that she had only escaped his hold because he had let her . |
| 23 | it was all over at the start of the second half … it took Millwall just 17 seconds and ten touches to win the game … |
| 24 | If the Government spends less than the budget says it would spend during the year , then it is obviously better off at the end of the year and can then spend more or repay borrowings or reduce taxes . |
| 25 | He crowed suddenly up at the drawings tacked on the wall , then at other times was perfectly quiet and lovely , just looking at things , motes of light , bits of fluff , a pencil . |
| 26 | Did John Doe do much up at the Tilberthwaite Mines ? |
| 27 | Laura gasped breathlessly as he raised his dark head , gazing fondly up at the man she loved so much . |
| 28 | The next morning , he laced up his walking boots while Detective Furness , squinting doubtfully up at the cloudy sky , telephoned the mountain rescue post on the other side of the peak to advise the guide of their intentions . |
| 29 | Paul and Blyth had fallen asleep , and Eric was lying with his hands behind his neck , staring drowsily up at the bright blue . |
| 30 | But one of the things , obvious at first , that , one of the first things about any kind of journalism apart from apart from , in your specialist journals and so on , is that they 're about newspapers are about people , so obviously get the people in and there 's a , a very good very good you 've got the person , you 've got you 've got you 've got someone in up at the top and saying something . |