Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’
2 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 .
3 If one looks back at the text-books and review papers written about psychobiology during t , his period one finds that they were largely preoccupied with topics like motivation and emotion .
4 He glances back at the stones of the air shaft .
5 The tour kicks off at the Arches Theatre , Glasgow on May 10 .
6 Metazoans are virtually absent except in some of the lakes where fresh water seeps in at the edges .
7 no one sits out at the tables
8 The path peters out at the falls and you either backtrack or tackle the heather hedgehog upwards to escape the gorge .
9 McDunn 's mouth twists down at the edges ; he sucks through his teeth , and for some reason I feel encouraged .
10 It comes in at the nerve-ends and is translated into chemical and electrical reactions .
11 ‘ You can also find that grass dies back at the edges of the slot . ’
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