Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem . |
| 3 | These leaves are beautifully preserved in a flat-bedded and very highly fissile shale , laid down at the bottom of a fresh water lake . |
| 4 | However some water got in at the front . |
| 5 | Just er we lived down at the bottom of the village there . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | From his precarious position on an ice field , Charsky gazed down at the valley , so unutterably remote . |
| 8 | He gazed down at the bunker , head bent and quiet , as though paying his respects . |
| 9 | She gazed down at the floor despondently . |
| 10 | Gina gazed down at the map unseeingly , her mind preoccupied with the unhappy little scene in her own living-room . |
| 11 | He walked up the hill near the farm and then reaching the summit gazed down at the farmhouse . |
| 12 | Inside were two fairly small square rooms , one each side of the front door , with a roomy kitchen built on at the back . |
| 13 | The unending toil , which ground on at the pace of the changing seasons and the constant struggle against relentless Nature would be in vain , as far as Jonadab Oaks was concerned , unless there were others of his name to follow in his footsteps and work this land to which he had devoted his life . |
| 14 | Her mother knelt down at the fireplace and lifted the iron grill from the front of the fireplace . |
| 15 | When she returned to the kitchen , she sank down at the table and tried to eat a little of the food , conscious that Craig was watching her . |
| 16 | Once inside the house , Hari lit the candle and sank down at the table , her eyes heavy with tiredness and unshed tears . |
| 17 | He grabbed Joseph roughly by the shoulder as the boy peered in at the window , and pulled him away . |
| 18 | He affixed a small jewellers ' eyeglass to his eye , and peered in at the device 's workings more closely . |
| 19 | The trainer leaned over me and peered down at the leg . |
| 20 | Teetering on the sheer cliff , Tallis peered down at the river . |
| 21 | The grubby face of a young boy , not more than ten summers in age , peered down at the speaker through the tangled mass of overgrown shrubbery atop a high stone wall . |
| 22 | Then I opened my fingers wide and peered down at the floor . |
| 23 | The Doctor snapped out of his reverie and peered down at the Cell , still clasped in Bernice 's grip . |
| 24 | Ashley enquired , as he peered down at the instrument panel . |
| 25 | Francis stopped and peered down at the complex of buildings . |
| 26 | The Shaws moved in at the beginning of December 1906 with a married couple , Henry and Clara Higgs , to look after them . |
| 27 | The boyfriend moved in at the beginning of the summer ; he gets by doing casual work on the farms . ’ |
| 28 | He never stopped in at the Susweca for refreshment after he was finished for the day . |
| 29 | And Lyon settled the issue in the 72nd minute when he crashed over at the corner for the match-clinching try . |
| 30 | Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom . |