Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | They had one drink — Maxim had never seen anyone order a triple Scotch before — and went on to eat at a roadside café . |
| 62 | He was turning about to look at the view and the slope of grass back up to the road . |
| 63 | My favourite tale , comes from Corner Pool , when Rob was fishing one cold March day : ‘ I was about to start at the top of the pool when I happened to spot a flicker of movement close to the north bank . |
| 64 | The train from the Back of Beyond is about to arrive at the Middle of Nowhere . |
| 65 | The father was just moving round to sit at the head of the table when the mother came sweeping out of the kitchen carrying a huge plate piled high with eggs and sausages and bacon and tomatoes . |
| 66 | And on one occasion in the gymnasium , I turned round to look at a boy behind me and the master was there and he smacked me with the flat of his hand as hard as he could . |
| 67 | Charles felt the blood trickling down his leg into his wet sock and , still keeping low behind a rock , rolled round to look at the wound . |
| 68 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |