Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these chaps down at Bootle on Merseyside — in fact the correspondent is a woman — are , one assumes , ordinary , helpful ( they are communicating some helpful information ) and hardworking people . |
| 2 | Then she glanced down at Lee as if she thought Lee might take it as a remark against her . |
| 3 | The man had picked up the ball , and peered down at Nick through dark-rimmed , bleary eyes . |
| 4 | Go down at night to the Corniche , the old Portuguese part of Muscat , and you are as safe as in your air-conditioned hotel . |
| 5 | Or once the partition walls are down , you can create your own flexible dividers , with bookcases , shelving units , screens or screen-like structures like trellis , or even Murphy beds that let down at night from what looks like a panelled screen . |
| 6 | Coughing spasms every 2–3 hours worse ( < ) lying down at night until 3 am . |
| 7 | Well we er duly arrived down at quarter to ten as twenty six of September this year . |
| 8 | So that put an end to that … no more dances down at Cotherstone for me . |
| 9 | Philippa was laughing in the perimeter of shadow that surrounded the light and Lee felt oddly stable looking down at Larry as if she were surveying an actor from the height and comfort of the gallery . |
| 10 | Apparently he 's been down at Streatley since the weekend , but Joanne says he should be back today . |
| 11 | Then there is the matter of the French Cheddar ( not to be confused with an unidentified English cheese known for generations to the French public as Chester ) now being made down at Castres in the Tarn department of the Languedoc . |
| 12 | They need to be informed about the aims and content of foreign language teaching in this country , as laid down at present by exams such as GSCE and in the future by the National Curriculum . |
| 13 | And for supporters of more ambitious clubs , there is the long , slow death of Championship dreams , where hope is extinguished little by little , week by week , until one cold wet January afternoon , you 're 1–0 down at home to Southampton , and you write the rest of the year off and start looking forward to August again . |
| 14 | This is the sort of thing we all get to talking about when the beer 's flowing , or to pass the time when we 're 4–0 down at home to Norwich . |
| 15 | Man Utd were 1–0 down at home to QPR at 1/2 time but … won 2–1 and are now 11 ( ! ! ) points clear . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Cyprus came from a goal down at home to Czechoslovakia yesterday to grab a 1-1 draw in a World Cup Group IV qualifier . |
| 17 | A good fight back for Witney today in the southern division of the Beezer Homes League ; they were two goals down at home to Yate Town , but the match finished Witney two , Yate Town two , our reporter , Adrian Burcher . |
| 18 | And finally at Filbert Street , Leicester were also on the comeback trail , they came from two nil down at home to Middlesbrough to eventually win four three . |
| 19 | Others have been gunned down at home in front of their children . |
| 20 | He looked down at Edouard from the horse 's back , and Edouard looked up at him . |
| 21 | Students of our naval past may treasure those small books bound in wood salvaged from the Mary Rose , which heeled over and sank off Portsmouth in 1545 ; or brought up from the Royal George which , a tarnished monument to the neglect of the Admiralty , went down at Spithead in 1772 with nearly a thousand souls . |
| 22 | No um Michael Fraser Associates have now started a lobbying operation which is run for them by the former Chief Executive of the Tory Party in Scotland whose name I 've forgotten but he lives down at Tiningham in East Lothian ah , now if I could get him in if Fred does n't object and again if Fred did n't object and the other guy did n't object it might be worth getting a member of Parliament in |
| 23 | Turkey vultures are common on Kidney Island and are usually to be seen soaring on two-tone black and translucent wings , peering down at visitors with a calculating look in their beady eye set in a head of bare red skin . |
| 24 | Genies and lamps , Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves , and Sinbad the Sailor all come out of that civilisation and end up singing Neighbours down at theatres across the land . |
| 25 | King Hassan II was at the airport to welcome the Shah and Queen when their boeing touched down at Marrakesh on 22 January 1979 . |
| 26 | Earlier in the day Jaguar shares had fallen back to close 46p down at 685p as speculators cashed in their stock for large profits . |
| 27 | SCOTLAND Under 15s came from a goal down at Wembley on Saturday to beat England Under 15s 2-1 . |
| 28 | Outside , Goldman was looking down at Schmidt as if he were standing on a cliff 's edge and peering at the drop . |
| 29 | This means that you thunder down the approach at Spitfire cruising-speed till , upon reaching a point one minute from the runway , you almost stop the aircraft in mid-air ( sending anyone inside towards the windshield ) , then bring it down at Bonanza-pace to a landing which , with practice , can be as short as 1,100 feet . |
| 30 | Mrs Phelps looked down at Matilda from her great height and Matilda looked right back up at her . |