Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Erm , and that 's about it really , erm , she lives in at the minute , and this was a gentleman called in the sky . |
| 32 | The baptistery stands separately at the south-west corner of the cathedral and was begun in 1196 . |
| 33 | Another form of inauthenticity may occur when a person lives largely at the level of practical consciousness , in which routines defend against the anxieties which life itself engenders , and fresh desires are seldom asserted . |
| 34 | A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) . |
| 35 | It should be remembered that the modern movement was responsible for great moral and social improvements when one looks sentimentally at the past . |
| 36 | And the Mediterranean , the great pale green sea that sloshes away at the coastline of Phoenicia , this too still shaped our movements and our lives , provided the essential and unchanging link between that distant , unphotographed world of Roberts and the country in which I now lived . |
| 37 | ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’ |
| 38 | He looks longingly at the teapot and the tiny red cups . |
| 39 | Great torque , good mid-range power , but needs more at the top end . |
| 40 | Guruji looks inquiringly at the companions . |
| 41 | If the baby looks more at the new patterns , it indicates that he/she can discriminate them from the original . |
| 42 | Bob tips in a portion of hops at the start of the boil and adds more at the end for aroma . |
| 43 | One per over per batsman is the ration , with a bouncer being defined as a ball passing over the batsman 's shoulder as he stands upright at the crease . |
| 44 | While a Western eye is familiar with the process of looking , as it were , through an image to what it represents or means , an Eastern critic looks also at the surface of a painting or a drawing , in which a poem or other calligraphic element may form an integral part of the work . |
| 45 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 46 | The new fifth television channel , wherever it is situated , will open up further opportunities for programme-makers when it starts up at the end of 1993 . |
| 47 | One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ? |
| 48 | She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture . |
| 49 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 50 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 51 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 52 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 53 | Mark looks up at the sky . |
| 54 | He looks up at the class . |
| 55 | John looks up at the cop 's face . |
| 56 | John looks up at the grey eyes so far away . |
| 57 | He only glances up at the television occasionally , as he is intent on finishing these as quickly as possible in order to give himself ti me to write a letter home to his wife . |
| 58 | Carmichael glances up at the grubby banner , and he shrugs . |
| 59 | Green talks a good deal in an inflated style , and always looks sideways at the object he is speaking to ; when he looks directly forward , it is at some piece of furniture or other inanimate object , still talking all the while . |
| 60 | As the Docklands beer festival fades from view , Martyn Cornell looks back at the sad demise of brewing in the Cockney heartland |