Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , and that 's about it really , erm , she lives in at the minute , and this was a gentleman called in the sky . |
| 2 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 6 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
| 7 | When she arrives back at the WPGET 's headquarters , she will find that Alison Nicholas , a key player in the 1992 Solheim Cup , has handed in her notice as a member of the WPGET 's board . |
| 8 | Her eyes are hot , she stares out at the water , at the summerhouse . |
| 9 | In fact , he turns up at the Harlem Hospital , a few blocks north , two days later , and is heckled as he walks along the wards . |
| 10 | It 's almost sad , and it goes up at the end . |
| 11 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 12 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 13 | He looks up at the class . |
| 14 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 15 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 16 | He glances round at the seventeen people — who are they ? : students ? , support-workers ? , staff ? — squeezed around the two tables . |
| 17 | He glances back at the stones of the air shaft . |
| 18 | He glances down at the final layer of glasses . |
| 19 | He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat . |
| 20 | ‘ This is fantastic ! ’ he shouts back at the porter , now several floors below him . |
| 21 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 22 | Minutes from the centre of Sant' Agata it looks out at the Bay of Naples and onwards to Mount Vesuvius . |
| 23 | Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He spins round at the third barrel . |
| 26 | But Kevin still has his Dad 's bag — and credit card — and he checks in at the ritzy Plaza Hotel before embarking on an hilarious , hair-raising adventure when he runs into the same villains — Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern — who he fought off when he was Home Alone . |
| 27 | In spite of such an unexpected result , it is important to see that the general pattern is very regular and to remember that , as far as the volunteer is concerned , he gets up at the ‘ normal ’ time each ‘ morning ’ to be ready for a full day ahead of him . |
| 28 | If you 're knitting with the mylar sheet , it moves on at the start of the second row and is scanned at the end of the second row . |
| 29 | Never mind that this is very seldom what happens when a bullet strikes a forehead and especially when it comes out at the back of the head . |
| 30 | down and there 's a path goes along and it comes , it goes under the road bridge and it comes out at the foot bridge and it runs next to it |