Example sentences of "[adv prt] at the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He looked down at the manuscript and locket and gave a little shudder . |
| 3 | He sat down at the desk and dialled Stuart Baxter 's private number . |
| 4 | He stared down at the desk and spoke in a voice that was barely audible . |
| 5 | She stared blankly down at the desk and , when she looked up , the clerk had gone . |
| 6 | Where you start down at the estbottom and build it right up to the goddamn , fuckin' sky ! ’ |
| 7 | She looked down at the xerox and shook her head . |
| 8 | She looked down at the sandal and with one worn finger gently moved the heel to and fro on its fragile shred of skin . |
| 9 | If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’ |
| 10 | It 's you that 's wanted down at the station and it was kind of you to give me a lift . |
| 11 | She looked down at the ice as she spoke . |
| 12 | The friar glanced despondently down at the sand and gravel . |
| 13 | The T'ang looked back down at the folder and at the summary Shepherd had appended to the front of his report . |
| 14 | He looked down at the girl and was moved . |
| 15 | I hissed , glancing up the stairs for shadows , crouching down at the phone and covering up my mouth with my free hand . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Are you sure she 's not just in the garden or down at the jetty or somewhere ? ’ |
| 18 | Quickly dragging her gaze from his splendid body , Polly stared with intense concentration up at the mainsail , then down at the compass as embarrassment flamed her face . |
| 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 . |