Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Dyson sat pouting and rubbing his hands together , glaring down at various parts of the table .
2 THE case must be made again for judges to stand down at 70 years of age .
3 But for newcomers it is daunting to stand on the brink of Genghis Khan — one of the runs in China Bowl — and gaze down at unending acres of snow .
4 He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens .
5 Brian Lara was dropped low down at first slip by Wessels off his first ball from Snell , and Keith Arthurton , in his first Test for three years , survived two slip catches off no-balls and another actual chance in his top score of 59 , filled with 10 exciting on-side boundaries .
6 He was seen to bend down at two drains near his home .
7 Jannie sat down at one corner of the great kitchen table and began to write a shopping list .
8 Gooch , though , England 's loyal and reliable banker , went for his second modest score of the match , a choker of a dismissal in that he was held down at second slip at 3.43pm , three minutes into interval time .
9 Thus tree rings are differentiated by the types , density and size of cell laid down at different times of the year ; varves by the gradation in particle size resulting from sedimentation of debris released into rivers and carried to lakes by the annual melt of glaciers ; and ice core layers by differences in dust content and acidity .
10 Fallen branches littered the rides and new growths of whippy little sapling twigs poked down at head-and-shoulder height to a horseman .
11 From the parking area above , you can easily walk down at either end of the crag , but it 's much more fun to follow the path leftwards and make a free 25 metres abseil through the blow-hole in the roof of the enormous cave of Baume Percée .
12 His hands came down at either side of her , trapping her against the wall .
13 Although Wright was missed by Gooch , low down at third slip off DeFreitas when 3 , the serious stuff began only when Tufnell was given the ball for the 26th over .
14 It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below .
15 Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time .
16 I sit down at this desk with a ledger .
17 This precipitated out the dextran which was spun down at 3500 rpm at 4°C for 10 minutes .
18 going in at eighteen pounds for two .
19 Guns and Killing magazine currently rate her as the sixth most dangerous solo outlaw in the Americas , and she is the highest-ranked woman on the list , coming in at thirty-seven places above the Antarctic esperado Ice Kold Katie .
20 Besides China in second place , India comes in at fifth place in the league , and Mexico and Brazil are also both bigger than Canada , currently the G7 's seventh man .
21 Shifts split up the family so that men would be coming in at all hours of the day , waiting for the bath-tin and the water and a woman to wash their backs .
22 In a cavity between it and the central part of the body , most species have gills which are continually bathed by a current of oxygen-bearing water , sucked in at one end of the cavity and expelled at the other .
23 ( See Hall v Marians 19 TC 582 , Wild v King Smith 24 TC 86 , IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 cf Lord Radcliffe in Thompson v Moyse 39 TC 29 at 337 ; it is not felt that Harmel v Wright 49 TC 149 at 159 alters the position because if one is " keeping one 's eye " ( p157E ) on the income and benefit it does not find its way to the United Kingdom ( it is hardly the case that the income and benefit " come in at one end of a conduit pipe and pass through certain traceable pipes until they come out at the other end to the taxpayer ( in the United Kingdom " ) ) . )
24 Overall , equations ( 9.78 ) and ( 9.79 ) allow for a signal being fed in at one end of a transmission line , propagating along it and being partially reflected at the other end to give a wave travelling in the opposite direction .
25 Then again Barry we do n't creep in at fifteen minutes past eight either .
26 They also have a ‘ stand by ’ appointment scheme , where you can ring in at certain times at half an hour 's notice , where prices range from £4 to £7 .
27 But you were too young to realise just how much work you have to put in at that stage of building up a business , how much effort it takes to hold the whole thing together and stop it from collapsing around you . ’
28 What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ?
29 So erm in fairness to him I think he was plunged into something he did n't have a hell in er hope in at that time of coping with .
30 What money did you have coming in at that time in fact ?
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