Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 He looked down at Meg and saw the fear in her eyes .
2 I continue to be surprised all those little panes of glass have n't been smashed in , but a metal door comes down at night and the neighbourhood is full of tourists anyway .
3 Coryza is worse ( < ) lying down at night and worse ( < ) in the open air and windy weather .
4 Difficulty breathing may be better ( > ) lying down at night and worse ( < ) in the morning when there may be copious and usually easy expectoration .
5 The name of this parish is said to come from the legend that builders , on the orders of a local lord , tried to raise the church elsewhere eight times ; on each occasion finding it pulled down at night and the tools moved to the present site .
6 ‘ He was nearly knocked down at Doncaster and finished just a neck behind Lochsong .
7 He peered down at Ralph and said ,
8 There 's one thing , best shot 's he played in that innings down at Hove and it was a short boundary , it was a good deal shorter , in fact this one we have here at Lord 's in this match , is a six over cover off good old Lester Piggott who was steaming downhill there at Hove all arms and legs and eased him over for six .
9 Ian , 49 , told friends : ‘ It may sound sloppy but the two of us will be able to sit down at home and have a jolly good cuddle listening to this . ’
10 She threw them on to the table and looked down at Doyle and Tug .
11 He looked down at Thornton and informed him of the new management attitude .
12 I think by and large they 're probably running away and do n't want to have much to do with him and they do n't like these people , probably , who use your drop in centre because they might smell a little bit and they might be down at heel and they 're not really people who are going to contribute much to the lives of those other people who are trying to get on and make things better for themselves .
13 Another suggestion is that it was a fulfilment of a prophecy such as ‘ I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight ’ ( Amos 8:9 ) .
14 A human got out , spoke to the driver of Masklin 's truck , laughed in a slow human way , looked down at Masklin and stopped laughing very suddenly .
15 Mowden found themselves 6–3 down at half-time and despite much second half pressure , they could not make the breakthrough and went down 12–3 , a late Ryton try settling the issue .
16 I was set down at Nurina and returned to my roomette before the train tackled the " long straight " , a point where the line runs across the dead heart of the Nullarbor , a distance of 478 kilometres .
17 Curtis sighed with regret , then grinned down at Grant and Pam .
18 Selkirk stood , looked down at Corbett and patted him on the head .
19 As Superintending Constable Giles Aplin mounted his horse he looked down at Tom and Seb .
20 They 're playing down at Marlow and skippering Bicester I hope will be Simon Greater , welcome Simon .
21 Beatty on the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet in 1918 : ‘ The German flag is to be hauled down at sunset and is riot to be hoisted again without permission . ’
22 Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was
23 Then I went shopping down at Lillywhites and bought a pair of swimming shorts , a Speedo swimcap and a pair of swimmer 's goggles .
24 I was down at Wentworth and I saw Dicky Powell , the caddie-master , and he asked me who I was working for .
25 After a lower tax burden , earnings were 0.3p down at 1.44p and the interim dividend stays at 1p net a share .
26 Stuart Laing and Norman Robson , two big captures from Ballymena head the cast with the former filling in at full-back and the latter at the base of the scrum .
27 So I went to the council , I did n't know anything about social security , even that there was such a thing , so I was given benefit and a hostel to stay in at Elephant and Castle .
28 Yeah I like to , I like to have a go at different things I mean the the the other the other lunchtime we had you know he came in at lunchtime and er Shirley had gone somewhere Ann and er I 'll have the chicken kiev for me please so so I went and did it did you cook that for him ?
29 Lucian Freud was among those who sometimes called in at breakfast and who , whilst Bobby Hunt made coffee , lay sprawled round the room , exercising their wit on the contents of the day 's newspaper .
30 cos he filled it in at weekend and I posted it Monday or Tuesday , one of them two
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