Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two species of butterfly fish have been observed to swim slowly backwards at the first hint of trouble , making their false eyes seem even more real . |
| 2 | He stood for a minute or so gazing down expressionlessly at the pale , bloodless face of the Prophet . |
| 3 | Thomas was motor-crazy , she thought , gazing fondly down at the small dungareed figure . |
| 4 | The tram schoogled away again , and Maggie gazed eagerly out at the passing scene . |
| 5 | ‘ You see — we did n't wake the children , after all , ’ Ross drawled , his eyes glinting with amusement as he gazed warmly down at the soft figure in his arms . |
| 6 | Yes , well fortunately this whole Gulf thing seems to have died down will be dying down just at the right time . |
| 7 | Max appeared disappointed by the reply as he peered down again at the grisly work on which he was engaged . |
| 8 | The Hochhauser Season had come along just at the right time , a time when she needed a little excitement , a little glamour , a little of the old camaraderie that she had known with her friends in Vienna . |
| 9 | Chapman had kept a close watch on Speirs ' feud with Bradford City , and moved in just at the right moment . |
| 10 | Grandparents who moved in only at the very end of their lives , just for a few last months , rarely left much of a mark unless earlier contact had been important . |
| 11 | But his mind had clouded over again at the wrong moment and now it was too late . |
| 12 | When one looks more closely at the individual creation myths one recognizes that the work will involve more than simple description of the myths themselves ; it will be necessary to go into the societies from which they sprang in at least sufficient detail for the myths to be appreciated in context . |
| 13 | Did John Doe do much up at the Tilberthwaite Mines ? |
| 14 | We start this chapter by looking more closely at the legal distinction between these two categories of temporary worker and go on to examine whether , in many cases of agency working , it is a meaningful one in practice . |
| 15 | This can be illustrated by looking more closely at the economic , political and culturalideological spheres . |
| 16 | ‘ Get hot , ’ Gav said , looking more closely at the white plastic strip . |
| 17 | By contrast , the research studies were looking more broadly at the whole child care service , and seeing the remedies prescribed by previous reports on similar scandals spreading over the whole system , and informing a confrontational , antagonistic and defensive approach to work requiring a more collaborative and inclusive spirit . |
| 18 | She came full circle around the house , and opened a door to find herself looking up again at the dangling corpse statue . |
| 19 | I slithered in his wake , looking up hopelessly at the great smooth wilderness rearing above us . |
| 20 | ‘ Entirely unnecessary , although for the sake of complete understanding you might like to know that this , ’ Lacuna turned abruptly to the blond girl , who recoiled , ducking her head , and then looking up meekly at the tall woman , ‘ is called Britta . ’ |
| 21 | When we went to phototype Matthews came out right at the right moment , to the week ! . |
| 22 | And then she glanced out of the main kitchen window , the one that had a partial view of the terrace ; Angelica looked as well , and saw that they had a few customers arriving and looking around uncertainly at the unstaffed deck . |
| 23 | But there was a figure at the window , looking silently out at the opaque sky . |
| 24 | He stood for a while , looking round about at the quiet dunes and the settling birds . |
| 25 | ‘ I should have said no , ’ she muttered , looking yet again at the tiny pile of things she had accumulated . |
| 26 | She paused a moment , looking worriedly across at the main entrance , and then she crossed the road . |
| 27 | With insufficient resources stored ready to hand , healing tissue , callus , can not be formed quickly enough at the exposed cut , which remains wide open to infection . |
| 28 | Even allowing for the probability that Time was no non-stop streamliner , faring ever forward at the same speed every day of creation , some fresh interruption of Nature must have occurred to explain its present serpentine course . |
| 29 | So the cameraman , looking through his viewfinder , could see the caption slide through the glass plate , plus sufficient reflection of the action going on over at the black drape set . |
| 30 | Quite so it 's about feeling you 're going to make a fool of yourself , I mean what 's the feeling when you come in and you sit down first thing in the morning you look all round at the other eleven people |