Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked down at the roses . |
| 2 | Lee hacked on and collected a favourable bounce to dot down at the posts . |
| 3 | In the 50th minute Logan made amends when he burst on to Stewart 's pop-up pass and touched down at the posts for the stand-off to convert . |
| 4 | She sat down on one of the red spoon-shaped chairs in the station foyer and placed her feet neatly together on the black and white tiles , staring down at the shoes Nurse Rose had so gushingly admired . |
| 5 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 6 | ‘ He was going to hit you , ’ she said , and her mouth turned down at the corners . |
| 7 | Carrie looked at him and saw his mouth turning down at the corners . |
| 8 | The marquis 's lips turned down at the corners . |
| 9 | Violet pulled her mouth down at the corners and shrugged her skinny shoulders . |
| 10 | His mouth turned sullenly down at the corners , like the mouth of a joke mug Melanie had once seen in an antique shop . |
| 11 | ‘ We got rid of an old woman and replaced him with a younger one , ’ Fergus said , mouth turned down at the corners , staring over his whisky tumbler and across the room to where his wife was talking to Antonia . |
| 12 | The long thin mouth was pulled down at the corners like a tragic mask , the eyes were hooded , the shoulders hunched , head bent forward so that the man 's gaze seemed fixed on the surface of the table . |
| 13 | Down at the Rovers there 's folk dancing in the snug |
| 14 | When he craned to stare down at the crowds in the great square below the palace , his head moved so that it rested upon the parapet like a decoration . |
| 15 | For a moment she stared down at the stains and the roses , and then she walked away . |
| 16 | He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away . |
| 17 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 18 | They sat at a table and looked down at the lights of the shipping in the Tagus . |
| 19 | Samson had nothing on Ayrton down at the barbers . |
| 20 | You lose their attention if you keep staring down at the papers in your hand . |
| 21 | She stared down at the papers in her hand , not wanting to look at him . |
| 22 | Leaving her abruptly , he moved to the desk and stood staring down at the papers lying on it , his attitude so tense that Lucy felt compelled to go to his side . |
| 23 | She looked down at the notes on the small side table , and then pulled off her wore framed pince-nez . |
| 24 | ‘ Humph … ’ the policeman grunted , staring down at the notes before him . |
| 25 | Except — ’ He looked down at the trenches of scattered earth . |
| 26 | Masklin relaxed a bit , and looked down at the figures in the sand . |
| 27 | He looked down at the tablecloths splattered with grease and wine , the platters now cleared . |
| 28 | ‘ Have I ? ’ and he stared down at the letters . |
| 29 | ‘ And this year you 're crazy about Maria Luisa , ’ Ruth murmured , gazing down at the fingers she had been wringing till they were red and hot . |
| 30 | He had spent the morning in bed with Rosie , which was why he 'd missed his date down at the docks , she had rung him at ten to eight . |