Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put it on right at the end of our conversation at yours this morning . |
| 2 | Holly worked on alone at the lathe that fashioned the chairs ' legs . |
| 3 | The windows of the five-storey buildings , with ornate wrought-iron balconies , peered down condescendingly at the passers-by , smug in their classic mantles of ivy and flowering creepers . |
| 4 | Peering down dubiously at the envelope , Monica departed to the bus-stop in the main road , and Alice went in to join the others around the table . |
| 5 | Her problem behaviour was specific to family lunch at weekends and holidays , the only occasions when the whole family sat down together at the table . |
| 6 | There is also the oft repeated argument that we should not sit down together at the table until after unity is accomplished . |
| 7 | Grandparents who moved in only at the very end of their lives , just for a few last months , rarely left much of a mark unless earlier contact had been important . |
| 8 | Larsen looked down fondly at the gaunt soot smeared features of the hollow-eyed girl and nodded back . |
| 9 | Bobo was muscling up and down morosely at the back of the cage . |
| 10 | The Hochhauser Season had come along just at the right time , a time when she needed a little excitement , a little glamour , a little of the old camaraderie that she had known with her friends in Vienna . |
| 11 | Chapman had kept a close watch on Speirs ' feud with Bradford City , and moved in just at the right moment . |
| 12 | ‘ We always wore trunks or pants when we went in the river , but just once , I stopped out to wash on one of the river beaches with nothing on , and went in just at the edge to rinse myself down . |
| 13 | They 've agreed they 're gon na use this federation one as a short stop gap an an I think Paul 's point is spot on , it might be a bit silly to jump in just at the moment |
| 14 | There has got to be some genuine changes in our erm willingness to work hard at our family life and not to give in easily at the challenges that so often break our homes up . |
| 15 | Yes , well fortunately this whole Gulf thing seems to have died down will be dying down just at the right time . |
| 16 | Martin charging down on Dobson ; Martin , eyes glaring and lips drawn back in a feral snarl ; Martin , arm raised and baton coming down again and again on Dobson 's head ; Martin , growling savagely at the yobs , daring them to interfere ; Martin , turing angrily as the sergeant pulled the baton from his hand ; finally , Martin , white and shaking , as he looked down disbelievingly at the unconscious Dobson . |
| 17 | That , in some cases , that has been explored for the storage of heat in the summer which you would then use in the winter , but everywhere one comes back to storage nuclear power stations can not be turned up and down quickly at the moment , so either with electricity you have to have a uniform demand for electricity , or you have to , say , burn gas to provide an alternative way of generating electricity which can be turned up and down at will . |
| 18 | New five series , I think … about to pass us ; should have lights that slant in slightly at the bottom . ’ |
| 19 | He looked down angrily at the man who had been so uselessly injured . |
| 20 | Nathaniel Sherman frowned down resentfully at the dead animal . |
| 21 | She peered out into the office , winding down now at the end of the first day : at the two constables scribbling notes at their desk , at another sitting at the HOLMES computer , at a WPC glancing through the actions book . |
| 22 | At ten-thirty next morning Captain Maestrangelo stood at the window in his office looking down intently at the street . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've got the equipment down here at the training centre but the only people who have the knowledge of how to use it are the staff . |
| 24 | It 's very cold and horrible down here at the moment . |
| 25 | Well bracksy and dead 's the same , they got him lying dead in the wood away down here at the . |
| 26 | Would you deal with an additional matter please your worships er , not on your list he 's only been brought in almost at the start of the court of this morning . |
| 27 | This time when he came back in to see her , the air was darkest around his form , but when he grinned over the noise of the men in the room behind the door — a woman 's laugh punctured the air beyond — and he sat down peaceably at the foot of her bed , the blue paled to a translucence like a robin 's egg . |
| 28 | The young man sat down readily at the table , leaning his homespun elbows at ease ; and Julian , without being bidden , came forward noiselessly and filled a cup for him . |
| 29 | When you were actually involved in it , when you were down there at the murder coal-face , it could be as complicated and unsatisfactory as marriage . |
| 30 | ‘ But I do n't think either ourselves or Forest will be struggling down there at the end of the season . ’ |