Example sentences of "[adv prt] at the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hydraulics gave out their whine as he joined other crew members staring down at the scene below and half a mile back . |
| 2 | ‘ What 's the matter , no job for you down at the theatre then ? ’ |
| 3 | He looked down at the man still standing nervously in front of him , and noticed his jacket was patched and someone had put leather binding round the edges of the sleeves . |
| 4 | I looked down at the money again . |
| 5 | Gav stood by the hall table , shifting his weight from side to side and glancing nervously down at the phone now and again . |
| 6 | Gina gazed down at the map unseeingly , her mind preoccupied with the unhappy little scene in her own living-room . |
| 7 | He looked back down at the map again . |
| 8 | Bill , there there 'll be a tiny wee spot of water down at the bottom here Bill that 'll maybe take today just to dissolve away . |
| 9 | Right down at the bottom there by the apple tree . |
| 10 | All the others you did n't see cause they 're down at the bottom so when this lot |
| 11 | No you do n't , no see they 've had er mums and tots down at the centre today |
| 12 | She gazed down at the floor despondently . |
| 13 | He looked down at the floor again . |
| 14 | The sun flooded the ward , painting a red halo round Marek 's head and throwing Dexter 's face , which looked down at the floor disconsolately , into purple shadow . |
| 15 | And down at the road there . |
| 16 | She was frowning , deep lines appearing between her eyebrows , mouth drawn down at the edges so that instead of a classically good-looking slim English Rose in her late twenties , she looked faded , years older than her real age , and shrewish . |
| 17 | He looked down at the discod still clenched in his hand and threw it impulsively into the pillar of light . |
| 18 | I was down at the library today . |
| 19 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 20 | He looked down at the book again . |
| 21 | Then , looking down at the book again , she went on , ‘ Are you sure she 'll be happy in the room next to mine ? ’ |
| 22 | Within a moment of her arrival St Ives put on the rimless spectacles he detested , though usually he preferred to squint blindly down at the book rather than be seen in them . |
| 23 | But looking down at the words now , it did not appear so simple . |
| 24 | Miranda looked down at the stones below . |
| 25 | She glanced down at the ring now , and found herself wondering , as she did occasionally , if it really was necessary for her to go on wearing it . |
| 26 | At the top of the hill , they looked down at the fields below . |
| 27 | ‘ I shall want to be down at the track early tomorrow morning . |
| 28 | I want you down at the track as soon as possible . |
| 29 | There was a man standing over the patient looking down at the face completely encased in bandages . |
| 30 | Tessa watched him , completely absorbed in him , as he sat wearily down at the table again , located the brown sugar among the remains of the breakfast things , and dug a spoonful out to lick at . |