Example sentences of "[adv] at [det] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks great there , standing in the middle of the square , looking down at all the people and cars and that . |
| 2 | Mother took one tiny look down at all the people looking up — made a long , low moaning noise and fled from the box never to return . |
| 3 | They can dance together at all the weddings . ’ |
| 4 | Its message was iconoclastic , even radical and certainly not at all the type of thing that one would expect to see emanating from a government department , with the seal of approval provided by a preface over the minister 's signature . |
| 5 | The Italianate villa in Washington , DC , which developed many Lincoln associations , was neat , warm , and human in scale , not at all the station of a great capital . |
| 6 | After the '70s the helicopter served the wealthy , but it was noisy , not at all the vehicle for mass travel . |
| 7 | That , of course , is not at all the circumstances now . |
| 8 | You feel as though you must have become very bad , because the destructive thoughts that keep coming to you are most uncharacteristic and not at all the sod of thing you usually feel . |
| 9 | It was not at all the response she wanted , but Mrs Browning was again in full flow . |
| 10 | The choice to concentrate on this period should not be taken as implying that coin designs are unimportant in the study of other cultures , for this is not at all the case . |
| 11 | This is not at all the case and if Tam ( who is usually very accurate in his writing ) read the material coming from the European Parliament he would know that this is not the case . |
| 12 | Duhm found the parallelism here " rather feeble " which is indeed the case if the ideal is synonymity , but not at all the case if other relationships between the lines of a couplet can exist . |
| 13 | As we shall now see , this is not at all the case . |
| 14 | The enclosed area is roughly triangular , not at all the square you might imagine , and is surprisingly big , about 1km ( over half a mile ) across its longest axis . |
| 15 | Not at all the kind of surroundings in which she would have expected to find the high-profile , socially-very-much-in-demand Nathan Bryce . |
| 16 | It hurt , they did n't feel anything much about it , and it was not at all the way they had thought it would be . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's not at all the way to think , ’ said Fenella severely . |
| 18 | You seem quite tired and nervy ; not at all the way you were last time : very trim and self-contained . |
| 19 | He was the largest and hairiest and pimpliest and dirtiest of them all , not at all the sort of person you would wish to meet up an alley on a dark night . |
| 20 | Not at all the sort of place for little Ellie Browne . |
| 21 | She looked little , and soft , and altogether charming , not at all the sort of person you would n't want to come and stay as Feargal had once intimated . |
| 22 | With any luck this is one proposal which British buyers will consider unsuitable for export , and not at all the fashion which women want . |
| 23 | For one thing , it was hot and sunny and not at all the weather she had associated all her life with Yuletide . |
| 24 | ‘ Not at all the thing for a Cochrane to do , ’ she had said more than once . |
| 25 | I had never been to such a show before — not at all the thing that well-bred young ladies are supposed to attend — but she made me laugh … |
| 26 | We thought that would be not at all the thing to do , a bit too Disneyland . |
| 27 | IT WAS ALL rather pathetic really , not at all the orgy of degradation she had half-imagined . |
| 28 | When she got back to the college , she went to the library and looked once more at all the reference books pertaining to Sebastian Denham , in the hope of finding the nature of his wife 's professional distinctions , but she was not successful . |
| 29 | Inside , Virgin 's pilots are landing on runway twenty seven at Heathrow , in the simulator they can take off and land as often as they like at this the world 's busiest airport , but in real life Virgin says it has to fight for slots to take off and land at the times to suit business travellers , it blames B A. B A says it does n't allocate slots or monopolize Heathrow Airport . |
| 30 | This I had seen happen in the lives of others , resulting in the despairing situation of looking on hopelessly at all the work and tender loving care lavished on a place being relentlessly returned to rampaging nature , and unable to muster the physical strength and mental resolve to do anything about it . |