Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dexter sat back in his armchair , unsure whether to laugh outright or smile knowingly at the businessman 's practical joke . |
| 2 | Foinavon had been trained by Tom Dreaper in Ireland for Arkle 's owner Anne , Duchess of Westminster , but while in Dreaper 's charge had been notable mainly for his extraordinarily laid-back demeanour : in a chase at Baldoyle he was in the lead when falling at the third fence , throwing Pat Taaffe well clear , but Foinavon did not bother to scramble to his feet , preferring to remain on the ground and pick quietly at the grass beside him . |
| 3 | The dawg will diverge from the node at the end of the head string , and converge again at the first node of the tail string . |
| 4 | I quickly learned that pointing the camera and flash straight at the glass of the aquarium did not work . |
| 5 | A ripe melon will smell sweet , and yield slightly at the stalk end . |
| 6 | I 've had some armchairs brought in and put there at the window in case you want to talk to people more informally than around the table . ’ |
| 7 | It could well become agitated at the dispersal of the pigeons , turn its head towards the lights , and bark heatedly at the roadworkers . |
| 8 | I enter the day and date in my diary and look again at the entry of the 12th June . |
| 9 | You may find it helpful to read these items first , and then go back and look carefully at the explanations underneath . |
| 10 | Creggan saw Minch staring intently out into this nothingness , and then drop forward to the front of her cage and look fixedly at the benches , and at the harmless litter bin which Woil had used as a stance during his brief escape . |
| 11 | Immediately they stop talking and look anxiously at the door . |
| 12 | But he did not know himself what it was and the impossibility of explaining made him turn his head at last and look across at the bright , rectangular picture Doyle was holding out . |
| 13 | Not waste time and get straight at the problem . |
| 14 | Or should he sit back in his chair and smile calmly at the idiocies of mankind ? |
| 15 | Dorcas saw a human take off its coat and flap uselessly at the fire . |
| 16 | Continue to beautiful Lake Powell and stay overnight at the Holiday Inn or similar . |
| 17 | A chef would never leave a kitchen with food out on the worktops at the end of the day , and front desk is always tidied at the end of a shift , but how many managers do more than simply turn off the computer and go home at the end of a session with their spreadsheet or word processor ? |
| 18 | Head south and turn left at the point where you see a track on the right to North Appleford . |
| 19 | Follow the track to post eight and turn left at the track junction at post nine . |
| 20 | and then you come up and turn left at the florists |
| 21 | Time the delivery of the punch to coincide with the cessation of the step forward , and shout loudly at the moment of imagined impact . |
| 22 | Molly disappeared up the stairs and Yanto heard her bedroom door open and close quietly at the end of the landing . |
| 23 | You will knit the same number of rows in all as when decreasing every alternate row , you just have to be careful to match all sides exactly and end neatly at the top . |
| 24 | TO find a special game in the Mega Drive version of Klax , merely hold down the Left and Up diagonal plus A , B , C and Start simultaneously at the title screen . |
| 25 | Bassist Simon and guitarist Nick stand back and sculpt away at the booming waterfall dazzle textures and crow-headed singer Richard Ashcroft flips out in spasms of electric eel ecstasy . |
| 26 | The older surfers like Manetta and the younger Badlands faces meet and surf together at the less well-known spots on the local coastline . |
| 27 | We 've had a bring and buy today at the club . |
| 28 | I leap outside into the snow , stand ankle deep in the snow and strain frantically at the same time trying to remember which direction I am pointing so that I can give instructions about where not to get the snow for tomorrow 's tea . |
| 29 | Aileen knew how to hold a conversation with twelve people and work hard at the same time . |
| 30 | The Red Scissortail has a prettily marked and coloured tail , but look also at the attractive scale patterning of the upper body . |