Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left . |
| 2 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 3 | The next Bishop of Rochester to reside here at Halling was Laurence but this is not to say that the palace was vacant during these intervening years for as we have noticed earlier monks of Rochester lived here for periods with possibly a steward to maintain the household . |
| 4 | The region of Conques suffered especially at this time from the breakdown of public authority and the rise of an aristocracy exercising local power from newly built castles . |
| 5 | One group of Ps ends up at a very similar position to this . |
| 6 | And then he was pushed roughly on , and suddenly , inexplicably my mind was filled with a vivid picture of Christ looking down at me as I stood at the foot of the cross . |
| 7 | It said that despite being aware of Gooch coming up at high speed behind him , Gallagher pulled out into his path . |
| 8 | THE Duchess of York hit out at Government cutbacks on cash to help people with drink and drugs problems yesterday . |
| 9 | The door was opened almost immediately by a tiny grey-haired woman , who looked past Collins to stare hard at the two strangers standing behind him . |
| 10 | The Gnomes of Gallan sat together at the far end of the table . |
| 11 | The depressing knowledge caused a sudden desire in her to leave the table and to get away from the sight of Doreen gazing soulfully at Silas . |
| 12 | It worked until the 64th minute , when Saunders at last found some space to cross for Atkinson to head home at the far post . |
| 13 | She could have stayed on in the country , until they found a place of their own , or even permanently , with William coming back at weekends . |
| 14 | As the sun begins to set , I drive along Vermont gazing up at the eerie silhouettes of young Korean men armed with M-16s , machine pistols and infra-red binoculars . |
| 15 | And , with Norway roaring away at the top of England 's World Cup group , everyone has been able to see their quality . |
| 16 | With Leoncico snapping genially at his heels , with a force of 190 Spaniards and with several hundred more local guides and porters embarked on a fleet of nine canoes and a small ship named the Chapinera , Balboa set out for Acla on the morning of Thursday , 1 September 1513 . |
| 17 | But it too is a close-up showing only head and shoulders , with Todd gazing straight at the camera . |
| 18 | I 'll get you some clothes from Ma Popits so at least you wo n't put the customers off . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | BUSINESSMEN in Shanghai lined up at the weekend for the city 's first auction of lucky telephone numbers since the 1949 revolution . |
| 21 | It pulls together , with impressive clarity , the tangled story that started at Chilhac , in the Auvergne , where a group of five hand-worked pebbles demonstrates that human habitation in Europe dates back at least 1,800,000 years . |
| 22 | The average cost of a standard policy for a two week holiday in Europe works out at £18 , while cover for a three-week holiday in the United States averages about £45 . |
| 23 | Evidence of Dalmatians ( whom the Italians called Schiavone or Slavs ) working in Italy goes back at least to the time of Radovan . |
| 24 | The party was founded in June 1989 but Green activity in Slovenia goes back at least 20 years , centring on issue-oriented protests , notably over the nuclear plant at Krsko . |
| 25 | He walked to Hause Point twice a day and apart from that … he wrote one or two letters and delighted her father by franking one of his ; he waited for him to get a full free day so that they could go char fishing ; he declined all invitations and although he was irreproachably welcoming when Mr Skelton and his daughter made a surprise detour on one of their visits up the valley from Lorton to call in at the Fish , Mary thought that she could tell that he was happier to see them depart than he had been to see them arrive . |
| 26 | Well tough he 's not getting my , he 's not getting the ensuite room , I can tell you If I if I have got three lodgers and I 'm getting on with them and they 're they 're paying me regularly for the sake of an extra twenty pounds or whatever and the annoyance from Tony coming in at ten a or there abouts and then sitting there like a stuffed frock waiting for me to leap about and put food on a plate and microwave it not doing it , Brenda ! |
| 27 | I lived in Hastings getting up at dawn every day to teach part-time in art colleges all over the country . |
| 28 | Leaving strict instructions to Joanne to stay there at all costs and to both of them under no account to let anyone in , he hurried to the Cortina and set off for Fleet Street . |
| 29 | Outside Benjamin stared up at the darkening sky . |
| 30 | It seemed strange to Maura to look up at someone . |