Example sentences of "[adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She opened the door and looked down at the gutter two feet away and then sighed . |
| 2 | Yanto was aware of the wind in his face as the instructor glanced down at the flag man again . |
| 3 | She looked down at the roses . |
| 4 | Sarah was down at the nick this morning . ’ |
| 5 | Seventy-two , and getting filthier by the minute , Reg Butler had sex like other men of his age spent Sundays digging their vegetable patch down at the allotment . |
| 6 | Lee hacked on and collected a favourable bounce to dot down at the posts . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She told Lizzie now that she would be coming down at the weekend and asked her if she would be kind enough to get her old room ready for her . |
| 9 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |
| 10 | Mrs. Mounce looked down at the suitcase . |
| 11 | To drain the works in the soles of Fleming 's Level , a pumping and winding sump was put down at the intersection with the cross-cut and it is believed that power for this was by hand . |
| 12 | Robyn glanced down at the chopping-board ; cooking for him would be bad enough , but others ? |
| 13 | Carrie leaned back in her chair and rubbed the tips of her fingers across her forehead as she stared down at the mass of papers on the kitchen table . |
| 14 | ‘ If you do n't keep in that fall , I 'm stopping your sweets , ’ he said , and then looked down at the mass of Arthur on the ground . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Leaving bridle line ‘ C ’ slack , pull on the connector ring ( sometimes a snap and swivel is fitted instead ) so that lines ‘ A ’ and ‘ B ’ are taut and the ring is held down at the level of the rear cross-spar . |
| 17 | The buskers were at Leicester Square , deep down at the level of the Piccadilly Line . |
| 18 | I looked down at the sea breaking on the rocks . |
| 19 | Endill hesitated and looked down at the sea crashing against the rocks . |
| 20 | Endill looked down at the sea . |
| 21 | He glanced down at the sea , then back at Endill . |
| 22 | If you walked up the brow at the back of the house you were in two minutes up on a great closely cropped bare turfy expanse , looking down at the sea ; and to the left all the indentations of the coastline , the bays , the beaches and coves within them , the tumble of rocks at the bottom of some sheer cliff , far west to lonely and uninhabitable shores , was visible . |
| 23 | Otherwise it just gets spent in one trip down at the village shop . ’ |
| 24 | At the climax of the episode Dr Kate ministered to this Miss Havisham figure ( ’ She needs help , not punishment ’ ) , while hubby was out doing an OK Corral number with the mods and rockers down at the village dance . |
| 25 | Constance spent all her time down at the village of Santa Barbara . |
| 26 | But when he looked up , the dwarf above him was standing , arms limp like a ragged doll , staring dully down at the crossbow bolt buried in his stomach . |
| 27 | And er er drop them in the in the blacksmith 's shop , and then when he 'd finished with them , when he 'd done 'em , they 'd all be in a tub down at the pit bottom . |
| 28 | She stared down at the crucifix , wondering desperately how much they knew , whether they had any knowledge of her liaison with Tristram or whether these questions were merely based upon suspicion . |
| 29 | Brushing a shaky , tired hand through her tangled blonde hair , she squinted down at the watch on her wrist . |
| 30 | She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and went over to the window to look down at the courtyard . |