Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The good thing about cruises is that you always have the ship 's staff to help you if you have a problem and there are always guided tours laid on at every port of call . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years . |
| 4 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 5 | If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem . |
| 6 | These leaves are beautifully preserved in a flat-bedded and very highly fissile shale , laid down at the bottom of a fresh water lake . |
| 7 | However some water got in at the front . |
| 8 | Just er we lived down at the bottom of the village there . |
| 9 | Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | From his precarious position on an ice field , Charsky gazed down at the valley , so unutterably remote . |
| 12 | He gazed down at the bunker , head bent and quiet , as though paying his respects . |
| 13 | She gazed down at the London horizon , its tranquillity pierced by hulks of office buildings . |
| 14 | She gazed down at the floor despondently . |
| 15 | Gina gazed down at the map unseeingly , her mind preoccupied with the unhappy little scene in her own living-room . |
| 16 | He walked up the hill near the farm and then reaching the summit gazed down at the farmhouse . |
| 17 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 18 | Inside were two fairly small square rooms , one each side of the front door , with a roomy kitchen built on at the back . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Her mother knelt down at the fireplace and lifted the iron grill from the front of the fireplace . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Once inside the house , Hari lit the candle and sank down at the table , her eyes heavy with tiredness and unshed tears . |
| 23 | He grabbed Joseph roughly by the shoulder as the boy peered in at the window , and pulled him away . |
| 24 | He affixed a small jewellers ' eyeglass to his eye , and peered in at the device 's workings more closely . |
| 25 | The trainer leaned over me and peered down at the leg . |
| 26 | Teetering on the sheer cliff , Tallis peered down at the river . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Then I opened my fingers wide and peered down at the floor . |
| 29 | The Doctor snapped out of his reverie and peered down at the Cell , still clasped in Bernice 's grip . |
| 30 | Ashley enquired , as he peered down at the instrument panel . |