Example sentences of "[adv prt] at the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 50th minute Logan made amends when he burst on to Stewart 's pop-up pass and touched down at the posts for the stand-off to convert . |
| 2 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 3 | The long thin mouth was pulled down at the corners like a tragic mask , the eyes were hooded , the shoulders hunched , head bent forward so that the man 's gaze seemed fixed on the surface of the table . |
| 4 | When he craned to stare down at the crowds in the great square below the palace , his head moved so that it rested upon the parapet like a decoration . |
| 5 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 6 | They sat at a table and looked down at the lights of the shipping in the Tagus . |
| 7 | You lose their attention if you keep staring down at the papers in your hand . |
| 8 | She stared down at the papers in her hand , not wanting to look at him . |
| 9 | She looked down at the notes on the small side table , and then pulled off her wore framed pince-nez . |
| 10 | ‘ Humph … ’ the policeman grunted , staring down at the notes before him . |
| 11 | Except — ’ He looked down at the trenches of scattered earth . |
| 12 | Masklin relaxed a bit , and looked down at the figures in the sand . |
| 13 | Lizzy stared down at the bandages on her wrists . |
| 14 | The families gathered round in a circle , staring down at the remains of their menfolk . |
| 15 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
| 16 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 17 | The two boys stood looking down at the heaps of feathers . |
| 18 | The arms positioned alongside the body turn in at the elbows with the hands over the groin . |
| 19 | The sun was streaming in at the windows of her room . |
| 20 | But more complex emotions creep in at the fringes of the tale , where the grandfather 's ostracism of the man his daughter loves leads to several fraught emotional scenes . |
| 21 | After a fierce struggle at the gates they were able to force their way in at the heels of the retreating defenders . |
| 22 | ‘ I am happy to have afforded you amusement , ma'am , ’ he said ironically , and turned in at the gates of the Lodge . |
| 23 | When he called in at the offices of Grubworthy and Sting , on his way through London , they were no less honest with him . |
| 24 | I look over at the posters on the wall . |
| 25 | Was it properly refereed or passed through at the urgings of the editor ? |
| 26 | If fixing outside the recess , you will need to add a minimum of 10cm ( 4in ) to the width of the reveal to prevent light seeping through at the sides of the blind . |
| 27 | The SEMI-finals were rounded off at the Woodlanders in Omagh . |
| 28 | Girls were dropped off at the ends of the roads where they lived , motor-cycles were pushed into front gardens and covered with PVC sheeting . |
| 29 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 30 | Then Bunny , battling his way against the flow of the children , appeared in the hall and halted for a moment , the belt of his mackintosh undone , looking up at the windows of the rehearsal room . |