Example sentences of "and [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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1 | There 's a moment when he looks away from the camera and down at the floor and softly says , ‘ Nobody 's young any more … |
2 | Do 20 walking jogs on the spot , raising your arms up and down at the sides . |
3 | It had stopped munching away in its stall , pricked up its ears and jerked its head up and down at the powerful voice of the world-famous soprano . |
4 | He raised his wings and pulled them back a little , bent his head forward , slightly opened his beak , and lunged forward and down at the white flesh of the hand that was pushing itself with a piece of sandwich through the front bars of his cage . |
5 | He stamped up and down at the limit of the firelight and listened to the silence of the hills . |
6 | It was working perfectly back in Manchester , when you had it going up and down at the traffic lights to impress those schoolgirls . ’ |
7 | The last thing when you 're all in , in when you 're all in , and down at the bottom they curve under like that you know , curve under . |
8 | And down at the road there . |
9 | Just grab the knife up over head and down at the table . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | ‘ ‘ Go out the front and in at the back ! ' ’ |
12 | That bar in the illustration , had to be lifted up and over at the end of each row to deposit the stitches on to the needles — a great opportunity to drop stitches , which I did most of the time ! |
13 | For mature students ( those 21 years of age and over at the time of entry ) the relationship was particularly weak . |
14 | With three blocks removed , it was just the right length for riding on at one end and off at the other . |
15 | With precise control both units can be set to operate on and off at the same setting with consequent better heat distribution . |
16 | I walked along the oak-railed gallery , looking both down and up at the magnificent chimney . |
17 | and up at the resort by half six |
18 | Through the glass and the vines overhead could be seen the blue sky and the white clouds , so that it was like being both indoors and out at the same time . |
19 | several streets all very like one another , and many more streets still more like one another , inhabited by people equally like one another , who all went in and out at the same hours , with the same sound upon the same pavements , to do the same work , and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow , and every year the counterpart of the last and the next . |
20 | Where there are to be music fades in and out at the transfer , leave plenty of overlap at the beginnings and endings of the pre-recorded sections to give yourself ample working margins at the mixing stage . |
21 | Stripping and ligation of varicose veins involves the insertion into the vein of a long flexible tube with a head at one end ( a " stripper " ) , which is pulled through and out at the groin incision tearing the vein from the surrounding tissue . |
22 | Goes in at one of his ears and out at the other . |
23 | A. Anyone carrying out work in the Village has to sign in and out at the Wardens Lodge . |
24 | ‘ They 'll come down the servants ’ stairs and out at the back door . |
25 | Dickens likened the piston of the steam engine to " the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness " , but even by 1815 it was only a minority of the working population who had as yet been cast in the mould of his 1845 Coketowners who , " all went in and out at the same hours , with the same sound upon the same pavements , to do the same work , and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow " . |
26 | The away end bogs , according to who was forced to abandon half-times plans for a piss , are Heysel revisited — one narrow tunnel going into and coming out of the place was crammed with hundreds of fans all going in and out at the same time , plus a few old bills looking on saying helpfully ‘ I should n't do that if I were you . |
27 | I mean it 's going in and out at the right places but it 's also to do with childbearing O K. So George is changing the subject there completely kind of off the wall is n't he , er this comment ? |
28 | I mean that when we went to Italy , when me and our Terry went to Italy last year erm first thing in the morning we 'd , we 'd have our breakfast , then we had a wander round and then we went on beach , two or three hours in and out at the |
29 | Somehow all that jiggling about realigns my brain cells , clears my head , and back at the word processor the words flow freely . |
30 | Then the two of us were filmed walking round the garden , and back at the BBC to cover these shots I narrated a commentary which was a distillation of what Dönitz had said . |