Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [art] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 We sat down at a table and he poured me out some tea .
2 She told Lizzie now that she would be coming down at the weekend and asked her if she would be kind enough to get her old room ready for her .
3 He looked down at the manuscript and locket and gave a little shudder .
4 He sat down at the desk and dialled Stuart Baxter 's private number .
5 He stared down at the desk and spoke in a voice that was barely audible .
6 She stared blankly down at the desk and , when she looked up , the clerk had gone .
7 Where you start down at the estbottom and build it right up to the goddamn , fuckin' sky ! ’
8 Violet pulled her mouth down at the corners and shrugged her skinny shoulders .
9 She looked down at the xerox and shook her head .
10 For a moment she stared down at the stains and the roses , and then she walked away .
11 She looked down at the sandal and with one worn finger gently moved the heel to and fro on its fragile shred of skin .
12 It 's you that 's wanted down at the station and it was kind of you to give me a lift .
13 The friar glanced despondently down at the sand and gravel .
14 The T'ang looked back down at the folder and at the summary Shepherd had appended to the front of his report .
15 He looked down at the girl and was moved .
16 I hissed , glancing up the stairs for shadows , crouching down at the phone and covering up my mouth with my free hand .
17 Scarcely pausing for thought , she sat herself down at the keyboard and , without so much as a sheet of music to look at , launched into Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto , blushing deeply to the round of spontaneous applause .
18 Are you sure she 's not just in the garden or down at the jetty or somewhere ? ’
19 I looked down at the chart and saw that the island was not so very far off our course , and I knew that the Beechcraft was brim-full with fuel .
20 Fiver looked down at the water and twitched his ears .
21 Someone 's brother , baby son , or lover he thought and now he was gone : Corbett looked down at the corpse and felt the futility of the death .
22 Well , if I erm said to one of my students something about that was a very good essay you wrote , in fact I 'd like to discuss it a little bit more down at the pub and down at the pub I put my hand on his knee perhaps in making a point about how good his essay was .
23 Gone are the days when a couple furnished their house from top to bottom in a style that fitted in with the tastes of friends , neighbours , colleagues at work , or cronies down at the pub or tennis club .
24 And as often happens , United were so committed to attack , that they left the drawbridge down at the back and Lemon scored another in the last minute to make it Hereford 1 ; Chesterfield 3 .
25 Or you could buy dresses , one or two dresses that were all complete except for the seam down at the back and the seams under the arms .
26 She looked down at the floor and made the slightest movement with one hand .
27 There 's a moment when he looks away from the camera and down at the floor and softly says , ‘ Nobody 's young any more …
28 Rilla looked down at the floor and said nothing .
29 The Archbishop looked down at the floor and shook his head .
30 She stared down at the floor and the remains of what had been a human being .
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