Example sentences of "[adv prt] at the [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’ |
| 2 | She looked down at the ice as she spoke . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 5 | Bridhe smiled down at the baby as she panted up the stairs again . |
| 6 | Glancing down at the package as though it might just possibly bite , she took a deep breath and began to unpick the sellotape that held it intact . |
| 7 | But I will never forget that time we both watched your father walking back and forth in front of the summerhouse , looking down at the ground as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there . ’ |
| 8 | Write about one main incident or object ( Chekhov said you could select anything you saw and write about it , but do n't sit down at the typewriter before the idea has gelled in your mind . |
| 9 | She sat down at the table while Michael called the plane . |
| 10 | Lancaster breathed out slowly and looked down at the table when he realised what he had said . |
| 11 | Quite suddenly Tweed pulled in at the kerb before they reached the hotel . |
| 12 | put that one in at the moment cos it sort of . |
| 13 | Beringed hands waved in a frenzy around Miranda 's own boldly streaked , mane-like hair , and Belinda quickly paid and left , realising she had been very lucky to get squeezed in at the salon when so many women wanted to look special for Christmas . |
| 14 | There was just because there was n't enough money within all unions , not forget that there was n't such a thing as a T U C then , this was in at the infancy when the unions first started , there was n't such as a T U C , Trades Unions Congress . |
| 15 | Then he had added , ‘ I 'll be over at the factory if you need me before then . |
| 16 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
| 17 | I was practically up at the top as well , I was really pissed off , just sitting there for like , for two hours , whilst my dad went all the way down to the bottom of this thing . |
| 18 | Maggie gazed anxiously up at the sky as she and Nevil emerged from the Sauchiehall Street picture house that he 'd taken her to . |
| 19 | Like dacite domes , rhyolite domes often form within the crater of a preexisting volcano , but they may equally well pop up at the surface as isolated extrusions , not visibly related to any volcano . |
| 20 | We can always finish up at the Boar if things do n't improve . ’ |
| 21 | Staring up at the ceiling while work proceeds on her thighs and knees , Lil continues . |
| 22 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 23 | Jimmy looked up at the ceiling when he heard it . |
| 24 | Forewarned , I do n't even show up at the Institute till gone 11 . |
| 25 | ‘ She thinks more of that old maid up at the Hall than she does of me , her own mother , I can assure you of that . ’ |
| 26 | up at the back as well there . |
| 27 | No point in turning up at the school if young Nick was n't going to be there . |
| 28 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 29 | About 20 travellers turned up at the court as one of their group , Gary Frost , 28 , father of a year-old daughter , was due to appear from custody . |
| 30 | ‘ Paramedics would be used , field hospitals set up at the scene if necessary , helicopters from Whitechapel would fly out casualties , ’ added Mr Whitehead who said a triangle of hospitals would deal with the injured and all the plans were agreed by the airport 's consultative committee . |