Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well that 's not so bad as long as you can get her down at a reasonable hour and get to sleep . |
| 2 | We had to put the babies down at a certain time and leave them — it was horrible . |
| 3 | The problem was soon overcome by always having the camera a couple of inches or so above the fish , thus pointing the camera down at a small angle to the aquarium glass , while the adjustable flash head was directed straight ahead . |
| 4 | On the relief the girl Athena , without aegis or shield ( she is shown now even without helmet , or with it in her hand ) leans on her spear , hand on hip , looking down at a small stele . |
| 5 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 6 | The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses . |
| 7 | As a patient bandaged from head to foot , Crawford had to deliver only one line , but he forgot it , lifted the bed sheet to look down at a prompt card and uttered the immortal words , ‘ Have you seen this , nurse ? ’ |
| 8 | As the hammer came down at a then-record $53.9 million , Mr Payson whooped ‘ I think he 'd be happy with that ’ , referring to Van Gogh , who killed himself a year after completing Irises , aged 37 . |
| 9 | They sat down at a low table in the corner , under a poster for the Campus Crèche and facing posters for the Pregnancy Advisory Service — ‘ A woman has a right to decide about her own body . |
| 10 | The arrow tip came free and I lay on my side in frightful suffering weakness , looking down at a sharp black point sticking out from scarlet wool . |
| 11 | In the shopping centre , I was gratified to see my name up on the Day 's Attractions board , and I sat down at a prepared place by the side of the stage . |
| 12 | Dazed , I looked down at a little girl with wide , solemn eyes . |
| 13 | Once in her suite of rooms she sat down at a little Louis Quinze escritoire , its pale grey panels painted with carnations and pinks , and wrote a short letter to her faithless lover , asking him to call on her urgently at the embassy at eleven the next morning . |
| 14 | Holly stood beside a poorly dug hole and he looked down at a T-shaped junction of pipes and saw that the screw-fastened aperture that gave access to the pipe join and its subsidiary were swathed in doth and knotted around in plastic sheeting . |
| 15 | Remember that , as with tools for any kind of job , there are good tools and not-so-good tools and if you buy poor quality tools , they may let you down at a vital time . |
| 16 | They had sat opposite each other in a compartment crowded with Able Seamen , he watching the darkening fields flying outside the window and Bunny staring down at a single sheet of notepaper , pale blue in colour , which he held on his jigging knee and from whose fold poked a sprig of crab apple in bloom . |
| 17 | I arrived just after dinner at night , so we were taken into the kitchen and sat down at a huge table on which were chicken legs , lamb chops , steak , dishes of three or four veg and told to help ourselves and did we ! |
| 18 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 19 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 20 | IF THE truth be known , Ian Woosnam would probably just as soon be down at the Golden Lion in Oswestry tomorrow night , having a pint or two with the lads . |
| 21 | Shamlou looked down at the cowering woman in the hearth , the petrol-sodden gown clinging to her body . |
| 22 | Aunt Margaret looked down at the round top of Victoria 's head with warm and tender eyes , her birdy head cocked on one side . |
| 23 | Then Saturday morning she 'd load up again and start off round down at the round Mill Corner along the Piste for the and back and then across to the where you come from Ely and all those houses along there and she 'd get home about one o'clock from there . |
| 24 | ‘ And him , ’ Forster nodded , looking down at the shattered , eviscerated remains of the man . |
| 25 | She hesitated and then sat down at the far end of one where a lone man was wholly immersed in a newspaper . |
| 26 | Down at the far end of the valley , there was still snow on the upper slopes of the mountains ; they looked as if they 'd been sugar-dusted , with stone walls showing like fine , black veins above the treeline . |
| 27 | Down at the far end someone has fitted a neon sign , but the rest of the sites are anonymous in the night . |
| 28 | He sat down at the far end of the table . |
| 29 | We 'll start down at the far end of what we call the lured mark and from there you 'll have to tack all the way up to this closest one , the windward mark . |
| 30 | It 's right down at the far south west . |