Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level . |
| 2 | Histamine given locally at the subcutaneous implantation site of the tumour ( 1 mg/kg/day ) increased the growth of MKN45G xenografts in nude mice . |
| 3 | The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall . |
| 4 | It should have calmed her , gazing down at the burbling river , should have helped her to think about the problem uppermost in her mind ; but it was impossible to concentrate , knowing that he was close by . |
| 5 | He paused only the once , gazing down at the burnt meat that had been his friend and comrade for so long . |
| 6 | Howard almost laughs aloud at the young man 's distaste for the prospect . |
| 7 | Twenty years earlier , R. A. Butler had shared the same fate , recalling the ‘ blood curdling demands ’ made annually at the Conservative Party Conference for the restoration of corporal punishment which had ‘ quite clouded ’ his time as Chairman of the Party . |
| 8 | In the classical theory of general relativity one can not predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity . |
| 9 | Wage regulation applied only at the upper limit . |
| 10 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 11 | IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC got together at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge'93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 12 | Eddie was staring at her with eyes as hard as granite but all she said was , ‘ You 'll have to go in at the front door . |
| 13 | No need for us all to go in at the deep end . ’ |
| 14 | They gazed down at the innocent football being kicked back and forth against the wall outside , the thwack of the ball booming in the street amongst the traffic noise . |
| 15 | The oriental gazed down at the broken body of his defeated enemy . |
| 16 | In an uncomfortable silence Nathaniel Sherman and the others gazed down at the dead buffalo cow . |
| 17 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 18 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 19 | ‘ The ambition is certainly not to go along at the existing size , growing by 5 per cent a year . |
| 20 | They reached Airman 's Grave and paused together beside its perimeter wall , gazing in at the poignant tribute to one victim of a long-ago conflict , though not as long-ago , it occurred to Derek , as the conflict which had recently extended its crabbed old hand to touch their lives . |
| 21 | ‘ Yeah , we 'll take you up on that , Dave , ’ Graham said then suddenly looked despairingly at the sealed container . |
| 22 | The Liberal Democrat vote sagged badly at the general election and they 'll be pleased still to hold seven council wards after this vote . |
| 23 | ‘ Less aggro signing on at the Social Security . ’ |
| 24 | This course is designed to produce graduates conversant with the techniques of physics and chemistry and armed with the necessary mathematical skill to work effectively at the chemical/physical interface . |
| 25 | He was educated locally at the National School and later at Wesley College , Sheffield , before becoming apprenticed to a wool spinner , John Brigg . |
| 26 | That tradition lives on at the Banzai Pipeline , not so much the Wembley Stadium of surfing as its Coliseum . |
| 27 | Witcher gaped down at the smoking hob in his chest . |
| 28 | And Anders , showing off his strength by tearing only at the thick material of Nina 's suit . |
| 29 | If one looks only at the outer signs , one may see a cantankerous , dotty old person , but in the soul something very different may be perceived . |
| 30 | Outside two young men peered in at the lighted women with their bottles and Jonquil 's cans of Carlsberg . |