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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Fallen branches littered the rides and new growths of whippy little sapling twigs poked down at head-and-shoulder height to a horseman . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After parts in At Close Range with Sean Penn and Spielberg 's section of Amazing Stories , Kiefer 's big break came with Stand By Me , in which he played ’ an asshole ’ called Ace Merril . |
| 8 | Transfer-listed Thomas comes in at left back as Dicks starts a three-match match ban following his red card for elbowing Franz Carr at Newcastle last month . |
| 9 | Like Marshall in the previous Test , Paul Terry came in at Old Trafford in plaster to help a team-mate reach his century . |
| 10 | This makes contact with the batch of rods , then draws the cooling product along at predetermined speed for about 5m(16ft) before–relaxing the pressure , lifting off , and allowing the machine operator to cut the batch free . |
| 11 | The ends of the rivets were bent over at right angles on the back of the shield making it possible to calculate that the wooden boards of the complete circular shields were 0.5 to 1.5 cm thick . |
| 12 | Crellin , who took over at promoted Leigh from sacked Kevin Ashcroft this summer , said : ‘ I have resigned because of boardroom interference . ’ |
| 13 | All that is happening is that the story is taken over at various points by each of the members of the cast . |
| 14 | In that early ‘ moment ’ , rock 'n' roll was an important intervention though carried through at varying levels of conscious awareness . |
| 15 | The Government can not be unaware that women are frightened to travel alone at night in isolated places , to wait in bus depots where no staff are present , or to be dropped off at bus-rail links at isolated railway stations where there is no one to guard them against possible danger . |
| 16 | When the same thing is attempted deliberately , however , one turn is usually enough to send the model shooting off at great speed in some totally unexpected direction ! |
| 17 | Now Robson 's jeered off at Sporting Lisbon for losing a UEFA Cup tie . |
| 18 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
| 19 | She set her alarm clock to go off at hourly intervals throughout the night , but even before its first summons she was disturbed . |
| 20 | To escape the posse of photographers and television crews that were always lying in wait , they would set off at high speed along treacherous tracks , with Europe 's press in hot pursuit . |
| 21 | One beltless man , in an official car , signalled to turn right into the car park , saw our photographer , abruptly changed his mind and drove off at high speed down the street . |
| 22 | As other police cars arrived at the scene the two men raced across the central reservation and drove off at high speed to be chased later by PC Whitehouse and WPC Larkin . |
| 23 | In fact , the two separate incidents concerned a 3-year-old girl who was enticed into woods near her home and sexually assaulted and then soon afterwards , a 3-year-old boy who was abducted from a play area and driven off at high speed before being dumped a mile and a half away forty minutes later . |
| 24 | In ‘ random mode ’ , the time controller will switch an appliance on and off at random intervals during the four ON periods already set for the programme mode . |
| 25 | He loaded farmhands , ladders , rope and planks into a small lorry , and drove off at top speed towards Windmill Hill , Angela in the seat beside him . |
| 26 | She was pissed off at missing Triste at the bar , but there would be other jobs . |
| 27 | But my idea would be to meander up and down the country , stopping off at interesting towns like this . |
| 28 | He admitted : ‘ Lawrie McMenemy took me off at half- time in Spain after I 'd been booked . |
| 29 | Our job was to act as navigational escort for about seventy Hurricanes which would be transported to the Med in ‘ Furious ’ and flown off at maximum range as reinforcements for Malta which was under heavy air attack . |
| 30 | Even when the weather is too bad for astronomical observing , Alcock still wakes up at two-hourly intervals during the night to make meteorological observations . |