Example sentences of "[adv] at the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young boy still stood like a soldier , holding the reins of the horses , his eyes looking eagerly at the piles of steaming dung obligingly dropped by both Philomel and Cranston 's mount . |
| 2 | Many black teachers hardly fare better at the hands of their white colleagues , often finding themselves the butt of racist jokes , hostile remarks and isolation in the staff room . |
| 3 | According to Presswatch , Scottish companies fared better at the hands of the London press than their English counterparts , with an average score of 198 among the 27 companies monitored . |
| 4 | Donna sat in the sitting-room , glancing endlessly at the sheets of paper they 'd picked up from the bank that day and also at the notes Ward had left . |
| 5 | " Eyes front ! " he screamed suddenly at the men before us. " 'eft 'ight , 'eft 'ight ! " |
| 6 | He is just 50 and apparently at the limits of his political ambition . |
| 7 | Gilberto Nieddu spat thoughtfully at the pigeons on the roof below . |
| 8 | It looked afresh at the elements in the established balance between the CNAA and its institutions , retaining standards at the centre of debate , defining a continuing role for the CNAA , justifying and describing the process towards greater institutional autonomy , conceding the need to take account of different stages of development , and looking towards possible implications for the whole of higher education . |
| 9 | Is it not time to look afresh at the foundations of our laws in relation to mental illness with a view to making the central focus that of providing a framework whereby those whose judgment is so impaired by their illness that they are unable to recognise the need for treatment will receive such treatment in as humane , sensitive and effective a way as possible . |
| 10 | Furthermore , comparable errors in the execution of these triangles are visible , e.g. the occasional crowding and skewing of motif , especially at the corners of a panel . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , this is an excellent , aggressive account of the Allegro , albeit with a little too much from the timpanist , especially at the ends of rolls where he insists on drawing attention to himself . |
| 12 | Best played as a team game with the class , especially at the ends of days , weeks or terms . |
| 13 | In February 1952 , The Musical Express bade farewell to its readers with a final issue that blazed proudly on its cover ‘ Tommy Dorsey For Olympic Games ’ , the accompanying story telling of how bandleader Dorsey and his orchestra had been booked to play for four hours daily at the games in Finland that summer . |
| 14 | These values should be entered in the sequence below at the references to ‘ server ’ and ‘ port ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They sat at a table and looked down at the lights of the shipping in the Tagus . |
| 21 | You lose their attention if you keep staring down at the papers in your hand . |
| 22 | She stared down at the papers in her hand , not wanting to look at him . |
| 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 | Lizzy stared down at the bandages on her wrists . |
| 28 | The families gathered round in a circle , staring down at the remains of their menfolk . |
| 29 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
| 30 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |