Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gazed down at the now peaceful face of the priest . |
| 2 | Years of irresponsible budgets have obliged America 's fiscal policy to work perversely at a particularly awkward moment . |
| 3 | The whole enterprise is carried through with panache and — apart from the fact that it clocks in at a rather miserly total of only 52 minutes — the disc can be thoroughly recommended to anyone who wants a well-chosen selection of G&S numbers . |
| 4 | We were climbing away at a very gentle angle and I could not understand why I could not move the controls . |
| 5 | But he could not have come back at a more opportune time as far as Selkirk are concerned . |
| 6 | However , our descriptive task will be more difficult , as it involves dealing with greater complexity of variation than would be the case in more focused communities , and it has to be carried out at a very fine-grained level . |
| 7 | In other words , will workers in the future be increasingly herded together in large factories or offices belonging to even larger corporations or will there be a shift towards work being carried out at a more local level within small groups , perhaps operating as independent companies , partnerships , or co-operatives ? |
| 8 | Since the infra-red reflectance is strongly linked to the presence of water it was thought possible that unfiltered readings might not show the same decline — since to the eye at least the area does not decline until the onset of withering , which occurs only at a much later stage . |
| 9 | ‘ Anything — just as long as it contains a strong dose of alcohol ! ’ he told her crisply , continuing to stand with his back to her , frowning down at the irritatingly silent machine . |
| 10 | On her next outing Dawn Run came down at the very first fence at Liverpool , giving Jonjo O'Neill a terrible fall . |
| 11 | We put in at a very tiny stream that would lead to the main waterway . |
| 12 | Another experiment carried out by Forster and Olbrei ( 1974 : Experiment 5 ) used a rapid serial visual presentation ( RSVP ) in which each word of a sentence is presented successively at an extremely rapid rate ( 16 words/second ) . |
| 13 | Much of the work in the first two years of school will concentrate on looking backwards at the relatively recent past ( life 50 – 80 years ago ) , using oral history , photographs , objects , and looking at the locality , the family , home and school . |
| 14 | It means that vital decisions have to be made quickly at an extremely difficult time for the mother , decisions which may have to be made from an ill-informed base . |
| 15 | All three men were looking up at a newly stained wallaba beam which supported the terrace room . |
| 16 | He smiled as the life went out in him , looking up at the already transparent Monster . |
| 17 | It always came up at the very worst of times . |
| 18 | The new breed of shareholders has yet to show its skills of actually trading shares for long term appreciation and has tended to sell out at the most lucrative time . |
| 19 | Although automatic and semi-automatic high-bay warehousing systems are being built abroad at an ever increasing rate — some 2,000 have been constructed in Japan in the last fifteen years — the rate of development in the United Kingdom may only be described as slow . |
| 20 | There 's a lot going on at a very fast speed . |
| 21 | Donna moved close to it , peering in at the finely sculpted features , momentarily distracted by the sheer artistry of the effigy . |
| 22 | The English do not seem to have taken this too seriously ; the fyrd , or coastal militia , was disbanded and the fleet paid off at the most crucial time in late summer , only to be hastily recalled when Harold Hardrada , the Norwegian king , invaded the north . |
| 23 | This had been a perfectly human reaction : to look quickly at a dead relative , loved or otherwise . |
| 24 | They are much more risky , tending to be highly volatile — rising quickly but often falling faster , indeed sometimes trading is suspended for a few days so you are locked in until trading resumes usually at a much lower level . |
| 25 | It 's very amusing , and you 've explained it amusingly to us , but er , there 's a lot of truth , I think in er , what you say and er how can we , er make the best of these unwelcome guests who insist on turning up at the most inopportune times , when we 're trying to enjoy ourselves . |
| 26 | I look carefully at the dead fly still gracefully adorning the corner of the screen . |
| 27 | One group of Ps ends up at a very similar position to this . |
| 28 | I turned to look back at the softly gleaming , parallel surfaces converging towards an oblong of dimly lit structures , an oblong much taller and narrower than any doorway . |
| 29 | We will also look briefly at the more trivial , but widespread , crimes of employee theft — ‘ fiddling at work ’ — as an example of another aspect of work-related crime . |
| 30 | The Literary Lionisers gazed up at the most splendid Norman keep in England . |