Example sentences of "[adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked down at the sandal and with one worn finger gently moved the heel to and fro on its fragile shred of skin . |
| 2 | I looked down at the money again . |
| 3 | For earwigs bend on molesting your chrysanthemums , wood-wool or hay stuffed into a small flowerpot hung upside down at the top of a cane offers a similarly unsafe and temporary lodging . |
| 4 | Dear , they were down at the Paradise the other night … looks serious . ’ |
| 5 | Always taper your training down at the end of a workout ; do not stop suddenly because this can cause fainting or dizziness . |
| 6 | A resigned silence congealed over the rows of people and the Reverend Archibald Menzies gripped the edges of the lectern , closed his eyes and raised his face to the ceiling , then looked down at the serried faces and spoke . |
| 7 | Now he looked down at the table top , then sideways at his colleagues and back at Cameron . |
| 8 | Next day and the day after that Mr Flemyng rode his horse along the slope south of the town , as though to exercise his dogs , and looked down at the site through an opera-glass , trying to make out whether the workmen were forming a mob . |
| 9 | She went into the living room where she settled down at the dining table to mark compositions . |
| 10 | Although the formwork was quite heavy , we pegged it down at the four corners as a precaution . |
| 11 | They came from 14-2 down at the break , and Trinity 's failure was compounded by the sending off of Mark Conway . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's true the horse was 100 per cent sound five minutes afterwards , but there was definitely something wrong down at the start and Willie had advice from the starter and a vet . ’ |
| 13 | Wasps went 5-1 down at the end of the second period against Barons before Anthony Johnson and Rick Brebant pulled back three goals . |
| 14 | In fact I pointed that out to the grave-diggers , but they were already 4ft 6ins down at the time . |
| 15 | ‘ If he was he would sit down at the negotiating table with us . ’ |
| 16 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 17 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 18 | Lenin decreed the taking of hostages from villages along the rebels ’ line of march and instructed local party leaders to ‘ cut down at the root ’ any evidence of sympathy with the rebels on the part of the population . |
| 19 | But five minutes into the film he was as possessed as when he was down at the football stadium watching a match . |
| 20 | By the time the two week World Film Festival winds down at the beginning of September most of the cinephiles standing in the long queues at the box office have no idea what they 're waiting for ; they 'll watch anything that moves . |
| 21 | I looked down at the sea breaking on the rocks . |
| 22 | I remember standing at the back of The Lyceum and looking down at the crowd . |
| 23 | They all used to hang out there and quite a scene had developed Some of it had to do with it being the antithesis of the whole trash/sleaze thing that was going down at the start of the seventies . |
| 24 | Steve was a new face to me but Paul I already knew from playing football against him down at the Lillie Road recreation ground . |
| 25 | After Rose and the boy had gone to bed he sat on his own by the raked fire , sitting motionless , staring down at the floor . |
| 26 | ‘ Nevertheless , Mrs Atkins , I would appreciate it if you could answer a few questions down at the station … ’ |
| 27 | His mouth trembling , he looked at them both and then down at the knife-edge creases in his trousers . |
| 28 | ‘ I said we 'd have to talk to everyone in the darts club , ’ said Burden , stopping down at the water 's edge , ‘ and I reckon we have . |
| 29 | She sat down on one of the red spoon-shaped chairs in the station foyer and placed her feet neatly together on the black and white tiles , staring down at the shoes Nurse Rose had so gushingly admired . |
| 30 | Scarcely pausing for thought , she sat herself down at the keyboard and , without so much as a sheet of music to look at , launched into Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto , blushing deeply to the round of spontaneous applause . |