Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood at the urinal and peed fiercely at the white ceramic wall , streaked with rusty tear-stains from the corroding pipes . |
| 2 | Allowing herself a moment of pity , Theodora gazed down at the vulnerable sleeping figure . |
| 3 | The avenues explored in applying neural computing to these three applications and the results from these have been reported on at the regular monthly Club meetings . |
| 4 | She leapt to her feet mopping furiously at the small wet patch on her skirt . |
| 5 | Jonathan gaped down at the neat little hole in his chest . |
| 6 | This study looks only at the latter two groups . |
| 7 | He was leaning against the casualty department door leering at the nurse who was dabbing gently at the three parallel scratches on Martin 's face . |
| 8 | True to his word , Tom Warner had located an immense 8-wheeled transcontinental locomotive , not yet cooled down at the divisional changing point , assembled a crew of engineer and fireman , loaded the engine with coal and water , and attached the engine to the Divisional Superintendent 's own private railway coach . |
| 9 | In 1961 , Arnold Claisse became President , a post he held most successfully for 10 years , during which the niggles about the bondholding autocracy increased and first surfaced formally at the 1970 Annual General Meeting . |
| 10 | After the shopping Denis would sit in the orderly room , watching his father write in ledgers twice as wide and twenty times as thick as his school exercise-books , or he 'd gaze longingly at the Royal Irish Constabulary uniforms of his father 's colleagues with their shining buttons and belts hanging neatly from pegs on the wall , the caps , the spiked helmets and the little pill-box hats of the cavalry police lined up , as if on parade , on a table along with whistle-chains , handcuff-cases and batons . |
| 11 | He peered carefully at the slim frail woman who stood so resolutely out on the porch . |
| 12 | Of the 34 recurrent duodenal ulcers detected , 23 ( 68% ) occurred in patients taking placebo , most recurrences being picked up at the scheduled 4 , 8 , and 12 month endoscopies ( 15/23 placebo , 7/11 cisapride ) . |
| 13 | The master raconteur looks back at the many amusing moments of his 47-year career at the BBC . |
| 14 | As a member of the Advanced Volunteer Foundation , Gail was one of 750 Canadians who helped out at the fourth annual International Amateur Athletic Foundation indoor track and field meeting . |
| 15 | Considerable work was carried out at the old carding mill . |
| 16 | The Commission has also looked closely at the potential anticompetitive effects of vertical integration . |
| 17 | " I just do n't know why you turn me on at all , " Slater said , then peered closely at the other young man 's face and said pointedly , " Are you listening to me , Park ? " |
| 18 | The government has long made it clear that sterling would enter the Exchange Rate Mechanism during stage one of economic and monetary union which began in July ; it has now done so at the earliest appropriate time . |
| 19 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 20 | Mary found herself looking down at the small dapper figure of Sidney Watkins , manager of the Berkeley Chase for the last ten years . |
| 21 | Looking down at the long fair hair flowing over her shoulders , at the skimpy dress , the unlived-in face , he felt immeasurably old for not wanting to sweep her off there and then and make passionate love to her . |
| 22 | Looking down at the pathetic little body lying so still on the table , she said , ‘ I 'd better leave him like this for Dawn to see . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , she 's exquisite , ’ Ruth breathed ecstatically , looking down at the little dark-haired mite swaddled in a delicate white lace shawl , ‘ absolutely lovely . ’ |
| 24 | She felt cold , and folded her arms across her chest as she walked slowly back to the house , looking down at the bloodstained front step . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , speak of him , ’ said Llewelyn , looking down at the heavy ashen head that lay so still upon his arm . |
| 26 | Corbett squinted down at the faded blue-green ink . |
| 27 | He dropped in at the still extant Paperback Shop . |
| 28 | We stand outside the Glass House for a moment , looking in at the dense green leaves pressing against the panes . |
| 29 | The important point to note as a summary here , is that the algorithms suggested for solving 30 out of 36 errors , would find the correct ( i.e. intended ) word by looking only at the top ranked candidate string , which neatly solves the problem described earlier of what to choose as a starting point for possible error correction , and avoids the potentially explosive situations . |
| 30 | Each line of script represents one second of running time and the words are written down at the normal speaking rate of three per second . |