Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She frowned , gazing down at the table , she even bared her teeth . |
| 32 | He paused only the once , gazing down at the burnt meat that had been his friend and comrade for so long . |
| 33 | Now he must go away and I dare say I shall never see him again , ’ Joan said woefully , lagging behind despite Anne 's grumbles and gazing down at the ring . |
| 34 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 35 | He was leaning against the parapet rail , gazing down at the brick terrace several floors below . |
| 36 | Cley rose to his feet and stood gazing down at the councillor . |
| 37 | It should have calmed her , gazing down at the burbling river , should have helped her to think about the problem uppermost in her mind ; but it was impossible to concentrate , knowing that he was close by . |
| 38 | The man was standing beside the stream , arms folded , gazing down at the water . |
| 39 | She sat , leaning her cheek on her hand , gazing down at the dog , her flaming hair falling untidily down her back , and over her shoulders , and glistening in the light from the candelabrum on the mantel and the glow of the fire . |
| 40 | ‘ And this year you 're crazy about Maria Luisa , ’ Ruth murmured , gazing down at the fingers she had been wringing till they were red and hot . |
| 41 | Mrs Fry went straight to the kitchen , told us to sit down at the table , opened the oven ( split-level cooker , of course ) and got out a huge pot . |
| 42 | Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready . |
| 43 | They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner . |
| 44 | ‘ I see nothing to celebrate , ’ said Charlotte Feaver , the first to sit down at the table despite what lay upon it . |
| 45 | If we were gon na say , right , this only is gon na apply to mega- projects , tt and therefore it would be appropriate for the project coordinator to be the person to sit down at the start of the job , when he 's agreeing the remit with the client , when he 's developing the erm tt er who 's doing what within the functions . |
| 46 | She could almost imagine the door opening and Isabelle coming in to sit down at the dressing-table with its pretty antique tortoiseshell and silver toilet set , humming softly as she loved to do . |
| 47 | You get a nice space to sit down at the table |
| 48 | The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses . |
| 49 | The room was low , and precious little of the falling day crept in at the one small , grimy window . |
| 50 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 51 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 52 | If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem . |
| 53 | These leaves are beautifully preserved in a flat-bedded and very highly fissile shale , laid down at the bottom of a fresh water lake . |
| 54 | The Spencer Tracy lookalike beamed down at the Anti-Rex . |
| 55 | Beaumont bought Jodami cheaply in Ireland for Yorkshire businessman John Yeadon after the horse had been broken in at the Curragh as a four-year-old . |
| 56 | Tucking in at the Cork District Social function held in Clancy 's Bar on Wednesday , 7th April 1993 . |
| 57 | However some water got in at the front . |
| 58 | To its horror it will find itself slipping and sliding , tumbling down at the mercy of its foes . |
| 59 | Not by someone else stepping in at the last moment . |
| 60 | When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out . |