Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The good thing about cruises is that you always have the ship 's staff to help you if you have a problem and there are always guided tours laid on at every port of call . |
| 2 | This is of flannel : the round part is plaited up to form the front , and a quilling of the bordering put on , a band of the same laid on at the back , and strings . ’ |
| 3 | The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years . |
| 4 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 5 | They rode on at an easy trot , eating up the ground , until finally Murtach said in disgust : ‘ Bragad 's lady — out for a ride , it seems , with five of her husband 's escort for company . ’ |
| 6 | The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses . |
| 7 | The room was low , and precious little of the falling day crept in at the one small , grimy window . |
| 8 | If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem . |
| 9 | These leaves are beautifully preserved in a flat-bedded and very highly fissile shale , laid down at the bottom of a fresh water lake . |
| 10 | The Spencer Tracy lookalike beamed down at the Anti-Rex . |
| 11 | However some water got in at the front . |
| 12 | Just er we lived down at the bottom of the village there . |
| 13 | So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot . |
| 14 | Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse . |
| 15 | Brother Cadfael was just emerging from the door of the infirmary in mid-morning , after replenishing Brother Edmund 's stores in the medicine cupboard , when they rode in at the gatehouse before his eyes . |
| 16 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 17 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 18 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 19 | From his precarious position on an ice field , Charsky gazed down at the valley , so unutterably remote . |
| 20 | He gazed down at the bunker , head bent and quiet , as though paying his respects . |
| 21 | In an uncomfortable silence Nathaniel Sherman and the others gazed down at the dead buffalo cow . |
| 22 | They gazed down at the innocent football being kicked back and forth against the wall outside , the thwack of the ball booming in the street amongst the traffic noise . |
| 23 | She gazed down at the London horizon , its tranquillity pierced by hulks of office buildings . |
| 24 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 25 | He gazed down at the now peaceful face of the priest . |
| 26 | Allowing herself a moment of pity , Theodora gazed down at the vulnerable sleeping figure . |
| 27 | Gina gazed down at the map unseeingly , her mind preoccupied with the unhappy little scene in her own living-room . |
| 28 | She gazed down at the floor despondently . |
| 29 | The oriental gazed down at the broken body of his defeated enemy . |
| 30 | He walked up the hill near the farm and then reaching the summit gazed down at the farmhouse . |