Example sentences of "[adv prt] at a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture . |
| 2 | He looked across , smiled , winked at her , and said ‘ Hi there … er = ’ He glanced down at a sheet in front of him . |
| 3 | And they go down at a bit at a time or it 'll go all the way down . |
| 4 | The Spanish reporter , Alfonso Roja , describes a woman in Baghdad , her eyes smouldering , shouting down at a crowd of Western journalists : ‘ Is this what you call Western civilisation ? ’ |
| 5 | She looked down at a letter on the table in front of her , collecting her thoughts . |
| 6 | By the time he felt able to add sound effects , Jenny was sitting down at a table with two girls and three youths . |
| 7 | He sat down at a table of one of the outdoor cafés in the square and ordered a glass of wine . |
| 8 | The canteen at TV London was largely deserted at half past ten the next morning when Dexter and Blanche sat down at a table in the corner of the self-service section . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I hope we are going to find a bit more life than this , ’ grunted Billy , as they sat down at a table near the gas fire . |
| 10 | Last night , two Catholics were gunned down at a shop on the Stewartstown Road , west Belfast and one is believed to have been seriously wounded . |
| 11 | This time , after I 'd hung up , I laid the phone down at an angle to the receiver tits so he 'd get an engaged tone if he tried again . |
| 12 | The blade came down at an angle on my first finger , but chopped straight through the rest . |
| 13 | Erm , what happened was the cathedral council one light in at a cost of four hundred and fifty pounds but they could n't afford the second light , so we got some money from erm the residents who contributed some money , we got some money from the school and there was a shortfall of sixty six pounds thirty one pence for the total bill , so the chairman er . |
| 14 | Apparently I had windmilled in at a quarter to ten , with three bottles of champagne , all of which I dropped in one catastrophic juggle . |
| 15 | An elderly female novelist had come in at a quarter to six and Penelope had found herself trying to explain why her latest novel had not been reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph , why it had not been advertised more widely , why copies had not been displayed on the bookstall of a friend 's local station , why it had not yet been reprinted . |
| 16 | The lean hand gripping his arm thrust him in at a door in the long encrustation of buildings that clung to the curtain wall on the sunny side , where the best light fell and the day lingered longest . |
| 17 | Nazarbayev was sworn in at a session of the republican Supreme Soviet on Dec. 10 , at which the republic dropped the words " soviet socialist " from its title to become the Republic of Kazakhstan . |
| 18 | Alice looked in at a scene of comfort . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought it was worth a try , so I drove up here , booked myself in at a hotel down the road . |
| 20 | Wycliffe was booked in at a hotel on the waterfront , up river from the wharf and facing the village of Flushing across a narrow stretch of water . |
| 21 | WILLIAMS ) came in at a run from the " Coriolanus " matin e e , still in his toga , and just made his position in time . ] |
| 22 | Led by Lt Fusata Iida they flew in at a height of 50ft and within a few minutes the airfield was a smoking mess . |
| 23 | It meets the River Lyon and the rivers pour in at a rate of 370 cubic metres a second . |
| 24 | The first 1,000 guardsmen were sworn in at a ceremony in Tbilisi on Feb. 23 , the Soviet Army Day public holiday . |
| 25 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
| 26 | You will probably find it easiest to slide the mast in at an angle like this until the collar fits neatly underneath the mast gate . |
| 27 | Greece , Spain , Portugal and Ireland were won over at a meeting of Environment Ministers by promises that the tax will be levied only on energy use or carbon dioxide emissions above a threshold value linked to the community average . |
| 28 | During April 1856 , after a period when , it seems , no head dresser was overseeing , his son John took over at a rate of about £5 : 4s. : 0d. , which figure was apparently dependent upon the weather . |
| 29 | Testing for 14 year olds has been almost as great a disaster : the first pilot scheme was abandoned halfway through at a cost of £8 million . |
| 30 | ‘ With E-mail it zips through at a fraction of the cost , and such a system also eliminates many of the difficulties associated with operating in different time zones . ’ |