Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 2 | She used the cry of her voice to draw them to her , allowing them first to fly away and then encouraging them to swoop back at the height of their arc of flight . |
| 3 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 4 | As I approached I looked wonderingly at the slight figure with the soft fairish hair falling over his brow , at the holed cardigan and muck-encrusted wellingtons . |
| 5 | Her feather bobbed up and down in indignation as she talked , and Fowler , who had no wish to gaze into her eyes , found himself flinching instead at the sight of Paul Franklin 's bright yellow socks . |
| 6 | Worrell had been vice-captain against England in 1953–4 , but when Australia toured a year later the selectors ' feet , apparently , had turned cold ; Denis Atkinson , who had little captaincy experience , was made Stollmeyer 's deputy , and as Stollmeyer then missed three Tests through injury , found himself pitched in at the deep end . |
| 7 | The gate swung outwards , and he found himself looking up at the massive head of a yawning dragon with creased cheek and jowl and a lolling red tongue . |
| 8 | When Tucker caught himself shrugging apologetically at the parrots he knew he was out of his depth . |
| 9 | How d' ya get on at the dentist ? |
| 10 | And then , as his eye flicked mechanically over the page , it caught something tucked away at the bottom of one of the columns . |
| 11 | Ace found herself looking up at the sky . |
| 12 | She found herself looking covertly at the bed , which had so much the air of being from a foreign country . |
| 13 | Mary found herself looking down at the small dapper figure of Sidney Watkins , manager of the Berkeley Chase for the last ten years . |
| 14 | Next morning Lucy found herself seated alone at the corner table , and when Jean brought her breakfast she learnt that Silas and Matt had left earlier to help the farm manager move cattle into different fields . |
| 15 | " We provide extra food and drink so that your great-grandfather can bring the spirits of other famous patriots and scholars to join our celebration , " her mother had explained in a whisper , and Lan , remembering this , found herself peering apprehensively at the spare chopsticks to see if any of them showed signs of moving . |
| 16 | When Nell did n't reply , he turned to see if she had heard him ; found her staring fixedly at the sign . |
| 17 | I expect he jumped out at the last minute . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , ’ said David , ‘ to find it turn right at the Seychelles ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've all got to share , ’ she said , as they passed through the swing doors and found themselves looking down at the courtyard of the Museum . |
| 20 | Remember Ah asked ye to go slowly at the start ? |
| 21 | ‘ Did you honestly expect me to stay home at the barn and carry on as if nothing had happened after you threw all those accusations at me ? |
| 22 | They let them surge out at the gate and shake themselves loose of restraint to take their several ways . |
| 23 | Yet the aim is for individuals on both sides to come together and explore , ex tempore , mutual areas of interest in the conference venue , the Glasgow Hilton , ( ’ I expect a lot of the business to be done in the corridors ’ , said Howell ) or at the Computer Solutions Show which runs simultaneously at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre . |
| 24 | I hope everything goes well at the country cottage . ’ |
| 25 | But let us look again at the quirky , fortuitous way in which evolution favours particular phenotypes . |
| 26 | Let us look again at the sentence that was cited earlier : |
| 27 | Let us look further at the role of tone-unit boundaries , and the link between the tone-unit and units of grammar . |
| 28 | Let us look now at the number of designers due for retirement between 1982–1992 ( see figure 9 ) . |
| 29 | Let us look then at the propositions which earned these encomia . |
| 30 | 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 . |