Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett secretly marvelled at the cool composure of his opponent . |
| 2 | B. T. Some of the inspectors always appeared at the wrong time . |
| 3 | The economy-minded president even stayed at the four-star Buda Penta Hotel rather than the grander Grand Hotel overlooking the Danube . |
| 4 | Bernice almost laughed at the comical expression of shock that passed momentarily over Molassi 's normally impassive features . |
| 5 | It would thus be only for those films with generally low levels of subjective risk or few moving objects that subjects actually looked at the fixed information even in the recognition phase and were thus able to be biased by it . |
| 6 | The judge effectively looked at the overall plan and examined the position before and after the plan in order to see where the element of bounty lay . |
| 7 | Maggie almost cringed at the outright challenge but Candace said nothing at all . |
| 8 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 9 | Victoria , at last , went to sleep and did not see the slow beginnings of London nor wake when the train finally halted at the arched and echoing terminus . |
| 10 | When Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan both spoke at the United Nations ' 4Oth Anniversary in 1985 they used the same autocue , which remained in a fixed position . |
| 11 | But Lacuna barely glanced at the other screens . |
| 12 | Henry always looked at the black side of everything . |
| 13 | Thus while labour productivity in terms of gross domestic product per head grew at 1.5 per cent per annum between 1945 and 1951 ( and by 2.5 per cent per annum between 1948 and 1951 ) it will be shown that these gains hardly nibbled at the chronic problems of overmanning in British industry ( Chapters 3 and 5 below ) . |
| 14 | Rachel barely glanced at the familiar streets . |