Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the pubs and clubs empty out at the same time . |
| 2 | Many of the more glamorous film and photographic opportunities crop up at short notice , so you have to be flexible . |
| 3 | Great heads with green , multi-faceted eyes peer down at her . |
| 4 | Make the other tentacles in the same way , varying the direction of the curve so that when assembled the tentacles branch out at different angles . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 6 | As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course . |
| 7 | Dozens of people with rucksacks glare back at them from the platform as they wait for their substandard ‘ Sprinter ’ to turn up ; wet , cold and miserable perhaps , but at least secure in the knowledge that they will eventually travel through the same scenery without parting with their life savings . |
| 8 | Her little eyes look up at me so trustfully , and she sleeps a lot and rarely cries . |
| 9 | In the photograph that the studio had acquired the four men brought to trial in Detroit look out at us almost belligerently announcing their status as ordinary guys ; they wear poor suits and no ties , they are unshaven , and they clutch their hats . |
| 10 | However , O. abyssicola differs from O. granulifera by the following characters : the arm spines only form a fan on the first free arm joint while in O. granulifera the fans extend along at least half the arm ; the spinelets of the disk differ , those of O. abyssicola are trifid and glassy while those of O. granulifera are low and resemble granules ; O. abyssicola has a rounded disk whereas O. granulifera 's disk is indented interradially , although this could be an artifact of preservation . |
| 11 | I flicked the tape machine on at the point where I 'd suggested to Joe that he had swapped sides , from the analytical guitar teacher to being the very subject of such analysis himself . |
| 12 | Should a big enough gap open up at just the right time , then you will be able to stay on port and merely harden up to cross the line . |
| 13 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |
| 14 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
| 15 | In a swirl of pink-blue-purple scum , the eyes stare up at her , unwinking . |
| 16 | Dark brown eyes stare back at him . |
| 17 | CHESHIRES FIRE BACK AT ATTACKERS |
| 18 | His eyes light up at the recollection of some of the challenges he has tackled that would have daunted the more faint-hearted . |
| 19 | As Britain 's biggest book printer , his eyes light up at the mention of Labour 's proposals for an extra £10 per primary school child for books . |
| 20 | My eyes light up at the sight of her even though she 's hitting me about the head , so to speak . |
| 21 | In the second part of his autobiography Ways of Escape , Graham Greene writes of an earlier period , ‘ … in Indo-China I drained a magic potion , a loving-cup which I have shared since with many retired colonels and officers of the Foreign Legion whose eyes light up at the mention of Saigon and Hanoi ’ . |
| 22 | Half the fun of viewing them is that subjects come up at random . |
| 23 | Every night while the white kids queue up at the teen club Todd 's , or the new romantic Taboo , the black kids flock to the Music Institute for a dose of blinding strobes and pure , hard techno . |
| 24 | FIGHTS break out at a Black Rights demonstration in Euston , London . |
| 25 | Receiving a boiler wash out at Haworth is the Worth Valley 's LMS 8F 2-8-0 . |
| 26 | British Columbia .............. 3 New Zealand .................. 48 AS THE All Blacks touch down at Heathrow today there is nothing but cold comfort for John Ryan , the Welsh coach , with the news of their heavy defeat of British Columbia at the Swangard Stadium here en route to their United Kingdom tour . |
| 27 | I cast one longing glance up at the cliffs of Coire Ardair , where the sun was glancing off the icy tips of gleaming rock , and I knew that next time I 'd get the sucker . |
| 28 | The lines open up at 12.30 . |
| 29 | She saw Li Yuan look up at her , his dark eyes strangely bright , and was reminded momentarily of Han Ch'in . |
| 30 | 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 . |