Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] at [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of a special evening , or rather at its high point , you would hear Gary playing a certain intro , and you 'd hear the whole bar going quiet as people recognised it . |
| 2 | Within this stretch of country , some two hundred miles at its greatest from north to south , and 120 miles or so at its widest from west to east , an average of three acres in every ten was dealt with by parliamentary enclosure . |
| 3 | In fact , the " Old Men " had sunk to 50 ft. or so at its southern end , by the beck . |
| 4 | This more deliberate pattern-making may be in imitation of the teacher 's attempt or even at her suggestion . |
| 5 | She wins hearts everywhere she goes , and , with a quick aside , puts everyone instantly and skilfully at their ease . |
| 6 | His touch burned like a brand through the cream lace , and somewhere at her core a traitorous butterfly-like tremor began . |
| 7 | Perhaps for this reason the law in several areas of censorship has for many years remained quietly in the background , yet with an extensive array of legislation to be respected and always at its disposal . |
| 8 | After a moment she looked up from her plate and directly at her father , ‘ Yes , Pappy . |
| 9 | From 1893 onwards she worked at home , first in a laboratory built in the grounds of her mother 's house in Reigate , and later at her home in Girton village , Cambridge . |
| 10 | Siemens AG said last week that it would take longer than previously planned to reduce losses at its computer and also at its semiconductor divisions , and blamed a continued deterioration in market conditions . |
| 11 | So the generally-applied killing time , regardless of the method to be used by sportsmen , is in the period from August to April — when the rabbits are more mature as a stock and also at their most numerous . |
| 12 | She teaches at Sleaford division of the Girls ' Brigade and also at her local Sunday school ; Phyl McMillan , of London , for her contribution to swimming for the disabled and for the over-50s , for whom she and her husband formed a club . |
| 13 | His appreciation of Chinese food was nurtured at his mother 's table and also at his uncle 's Chinese restaurant where he worked part-time from the age of 11 . |
| 14 | We had unlimited German labour available , and also at our command their talent for organization , which is rightly seen as a German national characteristic . |
| 15 | She has insisted that we look as discerningly and sympathetically at their world as at the more spectacular street cultures of their brothers and more militant sisters , and recognize ( as the painting on the cover of the book does ) the complexity and subtlety of feminine strategies of survival . |
| 16 | The pupils who come to Learning Support are encouraged to look openly and realistically at their problems and to use departmental resources , staff , accommodation and equipment to help them resolve these problems . |
| 17 | and her friends moved on to Stonham Aspel Primary School , they missed the fact that there was only 20 or so pupils and now at their new school there was around a hundred and twenty or so . |
| 18 | Infuriated by the painful bites , the snakes were striking dementedly and uselessly at their tiny attackers . |
| 19 | Unix at its best outperforms the NT windowing system and even at its worst is equivalent . |
| 20 | Rigel in Orion has 60000 times the luminosity of the Sun , and even at its distance of 900 light-years it still shines as the seventh apparently brightest of all the stars ; its magnitude is 0.1 . |
| 21 | It is pugnacious and sometimes , many will think , wrong-headed , but it is never absurd and even at its most provocative presents a case that needs answering . |
| 22 | He looked vaguely at her , and quickly and intently at his watch ; but at least he had returned to the consciousness that she was present . |
| 23 | There is no greater way to get the adrenalin flowing at the start of a race than when the commentator builds up to my name , the crowd waiting and then at its announcement bursting into loud cheering . |
| 24 | Miss Havisham looked down at her dress , and then at her face in the mirror on the table . |
| 25 | Through the successive phases of his career — at Gainsborough , Gaumont-British and then at his own Ealing Studios — he was to show that his talent lay in finding the most talented people available , giving them the best context to work in , inspiring and stimulating their efforts and intervening where necessary to ensure that the best possible film came out of the production process . |
| 26 | For the remainder of this one we will look at his account of personal identity and the mind , and then at his political philosophy . |
| 27 | After sending Bacci off to get himself a coffee from the Brigadier who was losing his patience with a recruit in the kitchen , the Captain shut out the noise and sat down to wait , glancing now and then at his watch . |
| 28 | After some prompting , the defendant gave the police his name and address , and then at his mother 's prompting began to leave the scene , using foul language as he went . |
| 29 | Yet as we talked and ate , he looked mostly at Werewolf and then at his daughter and occasionally you could see him thinking that maybe he ought to change his Will . |
| 30 | And there at her house now . |