Example sentences of "[adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 2 | He pushed the pad aside , drew the typewriter towards him and began to type again , squinting down at his friend s tiny handwriting . |
| 3 | She looked down at the sandal and with one worn finger gently moved the heel to and fro on its fragile shred of skin . |
| 4 | They knew quite as much about human nature at the Foreign Office as they did down at any police station . |
| 5 | He gazed despairingly down at his blotter . |
| 6 | When I arrived home , I sat down at my desk and wrote a letter . |
| 7 | I looked down at the money again . |
| 8 | A chap with short brown hair was smiling down at me . |
| 9 | He went away and I started to look down at my hands again . |
| 10 | For earwigs bend on molesting your chrysanthemums , wood-wool or hay stuffed into a small flowerpot hung upside down at the top of a cane offers a similarly unsafe and temporary lodging . |
| 11 | Dear , they were down at the Paradise the other night … looks serious . ’ |
| 12 | She raised her glass , smiled briefly as the woman raised hers , and looked down at her book . |
| 13 | Always taper your training down at the end of a workout ; do not stop suddenly because this can cause fainting or dizziness . |
| 14 | A resigned silence congealed over the rows of people and the Reverend Archibald Menzies gripped the edges of the lectern , closed his eyes and raised his face to the ceiling , then looked down at the serried faces and spoke . |
| 15 | Now he looked down at the table top , then sideways at his colleagues and back at Cameron . |
| 16 | Both were landless men who depended on being allowed to pasture their milk-cows on the water-meadows down at Ballechin , and as Cameron caught the drift of their intent talk and occasional sardonic laughter , he wondered again how many names had been put to faces during yesterday 's hurly-burly . |
| 17 | Next day and the day after that Mr Flemyng rode his horse along the slope south of the town , as though to exercise his dogs , and looked down at the site through an opera-glass , trying to make out whether the workmen were forming a mob . |
| 18 | Here it ran between quiet green glades , the remnant of an oak wood which had been stripped to build ships for the navy and then , in a last plundering , to make charcoal for the insatiable furnaces and foundries down at Carron forge . |
| 19 | ‘ Och yes , that is true — not like your fine slave-traders and moneylenders down at Perth . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Down at Atholl , when you went for the new blades , ’ his wife answered from beside the fireplace . |
| 21 | ‘ I believe the Breadalbane men were up in arms against their commanders down at Glasgow a few years back . |
| 22 | She went into the living room where she settled down at the dining table to mark compositions . |
| 23 | Susan did not know how she felt about this until she saw that he had painted himself and herself half-way up or half-way down , looking up or down at their reflections in the water . |
| 24 | She looked back down at her hand holding the plate . |
| 25 | Catherine was staring earnestly down at Duncan over her coffee . |
| 26 | I continue to be surprised all those little panes of glass have n't been smashed in , but a metal door comes down at night and the neighbourhood is full of tourists anyway . |
| 27 | A manic grin leered down at me as I struggled to bridge the crux . |
| 28 | Although the formwork was quite heavy , we pegged it down at the four corners as a precaution . |
| 29 | They came from 14-2 down at the break , and Trinity 's failure was compounded by the sending off of Mark Conway . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's true the horse was 100 per cent sound five minutes afterwards , but there was definitely something wrong down at the start and Willie had advice from the starter and a vet . ’ |