Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 2 | One group of Ps ends up at a very similar position to this . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It said that despite being aware of Gooch coming up at high speed behind him , Gallagher pulled out into his path . |
| 5 | THE Duchess of York hit out at Government cutbacks on cash to help people with drink and drugs problems yesterday . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | BUSINESSMEN in Shanghai lined up at the weekend for the city 's first auction of lucky telephone numbers since the 1949 revolution . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Evidence of Dalmatians ( whom the Italians called Schiavone or Slavs ) working in Italy goes back at least to the time of Radovan . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | I lived in Hastings getting up at dawn every day to teach part-time in art colleges all over the country . |
| 17 | Outside Benjamin stared up at the darkening sky . |
| 18 | It seemed strange to Maura to look up at someone . |
| 19 | If it is obvious that US policy towards Indo-China could not be considered in isolation from its policy towards the rest of Asia , it is even more obvious that the integration of US policy for Vietnam came about at the same time as the disintegration of its policy towards China : the most traumatic episode in US power-war policies in Asia , at least until the outbreak of the Korean war . |