Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 2 | An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale . |
| 3 | A nature garden has sprung up at a Bootle school where youngsters once had to play out in gas masks because of coaldust clouds . |
| 4 | be careful in the dusk , remember mirror , signal , manoeuvre once you start to overtake move quickly passed the vehicle you are overtaking , when overtake er , overtake only on the right except when the driver in the front has signalled that he intends to turn right , you can overtake him on the left , without getting in the way , when you want to turn left at a junction , when traffic is moving slowly in queues and be er , in a lane on the right and moving more slowly than you are , in one way streets , but not dual carriageways , maybe with a path on either side , when traffic is moving as described , do not increase your speed while being overtaken , slow down if necessary to let the overtaking vehicle pass . |
| 5 | man has hit out at a health survey which he claims is insulting and highly personal . |
| 6 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
| 7 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
| 8 | They challenged a man who was seen acting suspiciously at a horses ' rest home near their RAF base . |
| 9 | He 'd woken up at a quarter past four that morning to find Lavinia awake beside him , as often she was now in the middle of the night . |
| 10 | She thought she saw a movement and turned to look again at a stone figure lying on a tomb . |
| 11 | The inexperienced , particularly , can not face selling out at a loss . |
| 12 | Where the line of stones breaks , lines of energy could be detected moving off at a tangent . |
| 13 | Having looked briefly at a number of issues — under-fives , black children in care , adoption and fostering , and young offenders — and highlighted problems such as the disproportionate custody decisions concerning young black people , she challenges the current position on policy and practice . |
| 14 | Rumours are circulating among the ‘ Highgrove Set ’ — the circle of Gloucestershire landowners who mix with the royals — that Charles and Camilla may have met briefly at a hunt a week ago . |
| 15 | The strength of the stock market has been built entirely on the belief that the economy is about to start growing again at a time when inflation , earnings growth and interest rates are all low and falling , creating ideal conditions for a period of non-inflationary growth . |
| 16 | I would have sold more at a car boot sale . |
| 17 | But then he started scribbling away at A Year in Provence and the rest is history . |
| 18 | Do n't try to give up at a time when you are already stressed . |
| 19 | They provide a picture of construction , production and wholesale areas as major growth areas on an ‘ all Wales ’ basis , but the pattern of growth was found to vary markedly at a county level . |
| 20 | ‘ Now , I sat up in bed last night reading papers because I did n't want to turn up at a meeting unprepared . |
| 21 | The patient was asked to breathe deeply at a rate of six breaths/minute , the inspiration lasting for four seconds , the expiration for six seconds . |
| 22 | Due to the greater bombardment on the slope AB more sand grains will be ejected from this area : these will tend to land again at a distance of one characteristic grain path downwind and thus lead to increased accumulation in that area . |
| 23 | Thus it started popping up everywhere — even in Hobart , Tasmania , last Thursday night , when I went to speak there at a rugby dinner . |
| 24 | Well this is the situation where you would ideally you do n't want to have to look down at a speedometer . |
| 25 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 26 | Kylie enjoyed the performance so much that when a Melbourne football club asked members of the Neighbours cast to sing together at a charity concert , she was at the head of the queue to sign on . |
| 27 | In September 1869 he writes : " I really do stand now at a centre from which Schopenhauerian threads reach out into all parts of the world " ; and it was in April , on th eve of his departure for Basle , that he had expressed the ambition to infuse his own philological discipline with " that Schopenhauerian seriousness … ; |
| 28 | The Fire was started to get back at a prisoner who had refused to take part in a food boycott . |
| 29 | She had gazed petulantly at a mantelpiece empty of deckle-edged cards , remembering the time when she had never wanted for an escort or a party . |
| 30 | This may have embarrassed Loughborough 's Richard Wareham , the tight-head who played in the England Under-21 front row when they hammered Romania in Bucharest last May , and the youngsters continued to go backwards at a rate of knots in tight and loose . |