Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 2 | Small mesh stiff netting from the garden centre , suitably stretched and weighed down at the edges is another method . |
| 3 | A bus drew up at the lights and the driver , an excitable Puerto Rican , climbed down from his cab to see what all the fuss was about . |
| 4 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 5 | He must have had as fine a view of the burgeoning industry of Glasgow , as he had of the stars when he peered up at the heavens from the University Observatory at Dowanhill . |
| 6 | A lot of activity on the ceiling , too … as Ninereeds hovered , thumping the air with his wings , Twoflower peered up at the shapes of roosting beasts and tiny men-shaped dots that were somehow walking upside down . |
| 7 | Opponents of sales see them as reducing a vital social resource built up at the ratepayers ' expense , while proponents see sales to long-standing tenants as almost a recourse to ‘ natural justice ’ , although there are also the political overtones of the desire of Conservative politicians to build up a property-owning base to their vote . |
| 8 | Wiping breath from the window , she peered out at the landmarks , all so distant from the place where she longed to be . |
| 9 | Was it properly refereed or passed through at the urgings of the editor ? |
| 10 | Here we see the usual linen winding-sheet , parted to show not only the face but the entire body , with the arms placed at his side and turned in at the elbows so that the hands meet over the groin . |
| 11 | From the basic shape it can be deduced that the arms were placed alongside the body , turned in at the elbows , with the hands on the groin . |
| 12 | ‘ I am happy to have afforded you amusement , ma'am , ’ he said ironically , and turned in at the gates of the Lodge . |
| 13 | ‘ He was going to hit you , ’ she said , and her mouth turned down at the corners . |
| 14 | The marquis 's lips turned down at the corners . |
| 15 | ‘ We got rid of an old woman and replaced him with a younger one , ’ Fergus said , mouth turned down at the corners , staring over his whisky tumbler and across the room to where his wife was talking to Antonia . |
| 16 | He had a pale face , deep blue eyes , hair darker and straighter than hers , and a mouth which curved and turned up at the corners in an almost feminine way . |
| 17 | Pauline 's wide , full mouth turned up at the corners . |
| 18 | The opening day of the trial was to be devoted to legal arguments and Mr Beltrami , Moira , Meehan and myself turned up at the Courts of Justice to hear them . |
| 19 | James turned up at the docks expecting a luxury liner , only to find a cargo ship and a deck-hand 's job waiting for him . |
| 20 | ‘ There was the time I turned up at the Arts Lab ( first and last time ) to see the Dylan film and could n't afford it . |
| 21 | He was happier with this , though , than with his rather over-pan-fried John Dory , which was dry and turned up at the edges . |
| 22 | It would be easy enough ( in theory ) to get money for Everest or K2 , but if Mick and Vic turned up at the doors of a giant multi-national with the word ‘ Ultar ’ on their portfolio , they might well be shown the corporate door . |
| 23 | The teacher turned up at the police station at eight the next morning to tell me she was taking responsibility for my daughter . |
| 24 | No one noticed for a month , until the contamination showed up at the filters on the primary water circuit . |
| 25 | Yet the incident may have been deliberately provoked : some of the demonstrators were armed , and fired back at the police . |
| 26 | Zen gazed up at the shelves loaded with rows of books as uniform as bricks . |
| 27 | They walked towards the castle , and Jessamy gazed up at the towers and battlements , and the great walls that loomed above them . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Maggie glanced over at the Lawlers who were about a dozen feet from her . |
| 30 | The mattress — all curved up at the edges . |