Example sentences of "[adv prt] at the [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brushing a shaky , tired hand through her tangled blonde hair , she squinted down at the watch on her wrist . |
| 2 | She glanced briefly at Twoflower , as one might look at a piece of furniture , then glared down at the man on the bed . |
| 3 | Her mind still racing , she glanced down at the map on the passenger seat and then headed towards the road that would take her to Mountpelier Lodge . |
| 4 | Grandson Richard stared down at the nome on his shoulder . |
| 5 | He glanced down at the label on the table to check . |
| 6 | So who was down at the bus on her own ? |
| 7 | She looked down at the tray on her lap . |
| 8 | She shivered , looked down at the ring on her finger . |
| 9 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 10 | He looked down at the food on his tray . |
| 11 | Today he would have liked to remain at Hillmarden for another night , but he had promised Celia he would call in at the clinic on his way back to London , knowing he had a very busy week coming which might make it impossible to see her again until the following weekend . |
| 12 | On one of our south coast patrols I managed to be in at the kill on what turned out to be one of our more amusing combined operations . |
| 13 | More than one of them remarked on how pleasant it was to return to base in the early hours , cold , cramped and tired out , to see our welcoming smiles as they called in at the office on their way down to the Mess , even though they had probably only called in to tear us off a strip for having given them a rotten weather forecast . |
| 14 | I called in at the office on one of my days off , to see what was doing , and found that a posting had come through for me to report forthwith to Group Headquarters at Huntingdon . |
| 15 | Can you drop me off at the apartment on your way home , Sergei ? |
| 16 | Mrs Gray looked away and then up at the portrait on the mantel shelf . |
| 17 | Kersey called after him : ‘ Shaw has fixed us up at the hotel on the prom — is that all right ? ’ |
| 18 | She glanced up at the clock on the wall opposite . |
| 19 | He scored on his debut , against Plymouth up at The Palace on 15 October when we romped to a 6–1 win , and went on to play in every remaining match that season . |
| 20 | Sharpe looked up at the weathercock on the stable roof and saw the wind had backed southerly . |
| 21 | Although there were some variations as the election campaign unfolded , the thrust of the Tory message on law and order did not deviate from the plan drawn up at the meeting on 7 July 1978 . |
| 22 | Zlorf and Ymor stared up at the figure on the threshold . |
| 23 | Lined up at the roadside on the southern side of the gates , were the three fire tenders with their two-man crews in the cabs . |
| 24 | Nearly 200 vehicles pulled up at the roadside on the A38 just south of Gloucester . |
| 25 | the structured thought patterns I found that the most important because when I was up at the table on the second presentation I was able to have my thoughts relating to the layout already and with in fact just the single element of the subject shown on my paper I could immediately focus on that and in fact give the details of that right the way through . |
| 26 | We stocked up at the hypermarket on coffee and beer at less than half English prices . |
| 27 | Rachaela looked out at the dusk on the snow street , and the snow piled up against the walls , the pedestrians slipping and sidling along the ice . |
| 28 | But despite a minor stoppage outside splendid sunlit Durham , you could feel the power of the new class 91 locomotives clawing back at the clock on the run in to Newcastle . |
| 29 | Involuntarily Wycliffe turned to look back at the house on stilts , but it was hidden by a bulge in the slope of the hill … |
| 30 | Look back at the section on decimal place values and check : unc Notice that the place value of the last figure tells you the size of the denominator . |