Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A six inch deep channel of water still flowed over their wader clad feet as they stood in a rough circle looking down at something in the mud . |
| 2 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 3 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 4 | ‘ Funny little faces peering down at me through the branches overhead . |
| 5 | As I write , he nods down at me from the wall beside my desk ; shining brass-reel in place , cast and flies still ready for action , waiting for the last trumpet to sound . |
| 6 | ‘ And do n't dare tell me it 's going to be too tough for a woman , ’ Mariana shouted , as she glared down at him from the saloon . |
| 7 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 8 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
| 9 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 10 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
| 11 | The villagers looked down at it with the satisfaction of those who could n't swim and certainly would n't want to try . |
| 12 | So that we 've got to get land in at something in the order of ten to fifteen thousand pounds an acre for residential development , and that obviously is hugely under the going rate . |
| 13 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 14 | And mummy 's smiling in at him from the outside , look she 's hanging the washing out pretending not to notice what 's going on . |
| 15 | Around nine o'clock on what was now her third night at the Lodge she looked up from the page and saw a face at the dark window staring in at her through the rain . |
| 16 | Cocooned in noise , the hostile presence of the rest of the miners oppressing her , she felt fear thrusting in at her with the decibels of the freighter 's flight . |
| 17 | Rubbing his glasses clean , he peered intently over at me through the thin rain . |
| 18 | He lay grinning up at me on the water , spreadeagled on his back with his arms splayed . |
| 19 | When at last the child was comforted , Māilo looked up at me across the fire . |
| 20 | I had reached the letter " C " and as the word " Castration " looked up at me from the page I was jerked back to Rory . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's hot , ’ she murmured , peeping suggestively up at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 22 | Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright , astonished and disarmed , and burst into a muted crow of laughter . |
| 23 | Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms . |
| 24 | She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course , Doctor , ’ murmured Judy , gazing up at him through the dark crescents of her attractively long lashes . |
| 26 | I looked up at him on the other side of the table , at his severe eyes on mine . |
| 27 | Turning around to peer up at him in the gathering darkness , Laura had no clue what he was thinking as she viewed his bland expression , which echoed the studied unconcern in his voice . |
| 28 | His own address stared up at him in the same black hand |
| 29 | Staring down at the girl , Pascoe saw in her the Martha he had known as a lad — the Martha he had loved and lost ; and while he stared , she opened her eyes and looked back up at him from the stinking bed of straw , and for a moment he felt a little stirring of fear . |
| 30 | Lucie stared up at him from the plank floor , his eyebrows twitching with dismay . |