Example sentences of "[adv prt] at a [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 We sat down at a table and he poured me out some tea .
2 The branch road from Dent joins in at a bridge and the hamlet of Cowgill , once a parish in its own right , is immediately beyond : here is a church built in 1873 , a converted school , the pleasant residence and gardens of Cowgill Grange and an isolated terrace of cottages .
3 Do they see erm , if , if they migrate to the city in the urban areas then they realize they wo n't get a job , and have a job straight away , er well paying job but by actually living in the area they would and taking in at a job and they get a lot of contacts and then eventually after a period of time they job .
4 He takes me in at a glance and starts peering around the room , checking out the sofa , examining the ceiling .
5 From the roadside a short distance west of Blindbeck Bridge , a cart track branches off at a tangent and climbs easily to the shallow depression between Barbon Low Fell and Barbon High Fell , having the stream ( named as Aygill by the Ordnance Survey and as Barkin Gill by the caving fraternity ) away on the left .
6 As they left the turn the French paddled off at a tangent and tried to run the Romanians into the landing pontoon in front of all the VIPs .
7 I have n't taken more than a week off at a time and I need some rest . ’
8 The ballet master Balanchine , for one , showed up at a work-out and gazed in wonder .
9 Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's .
10 If you 've ever looked up at a stage and seen a strange device with an illuminated spinning dial and wondered what it was , chances are it was a strobe tuner .
11 The wash down would be done with one leg up at a time and an impatient queue waiting behind .
12 The boy in the stable said that Mr Kiniver was out at a funeral and was not expected back until late .
13 Some day soon we 'll stop by at a monastery and have a scribbler read them out to you .
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