Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Answer the three questions below and then look at the photograph on the right . |
| 2 | Hall said afterwards that he had not realized himself capable of such sustained accurate bowling , but kept at it simply because Worrell wanted him to ; he also said that he was physically and mentally shattered at the end of it . |
| 3 | ( d ) Agreed price As mentioned previously , it is essential to ensure that this is properly and finally negotiated at the commencement of the transaction . |
| 4 | Tracings of fabrics and grains can be quickly and accurately made at a range of magnifications . |
| 5 | Melissa was becoming more and more irritated at the constant references to Bonard . |
| 6 | The soldiers had four camels , but were hopelessly incompetent at loading them and I had got more and more exasperated at the delay . |
| 7 | Nevertheless the official statistics show that , in the 1980s , lone parents have come to be more and more concentrated at the bottom of the income distribution ( House of Commons Social Security Committee , 1991 ) . |
| 8 | It was an old thing with spikes and flaps which you could lift up and down to get at the mechanics . |
| 9 | The fiction was that they could be honestly and legitimately equalized at the same quota figure , even though Haughey had nearly three times as many first-preference votes as Brady , and even though almost half of the votes by which Brady reached the quota were votes of second or lower preference , culled by transfers from nine other candidates in nine counts . |
| 10 | David Stubbs 's metaphor for the Butthole sound pleases me immensely , for he has unwittingly and uncannily arrived at the image that haunts Bataille 's writing . |
| 11 | Her hands ceased their uncertain fluttering , dropping to her lap as she sat back and then tugging at the hem of her skirt until it was at a more modest level . |
| 12 | Bolton , still smarting from a controversial refereeing decision that denied them a penalty and , they believe , victory at the County Ground at Swindon , had their opponents well and truly cornered at the start . |
| 13 | It is possible , for example , to read Henry James scholarship exhaustively and never arrive at a nodding mention , much less a satisfactory treatment , of the black woman who lubricates the turn of the plot and becomes the agency of moral choice and meaning in What Maisie Knew . |
| 14 | The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 . |
| 15 | Belfast proved worthy opponents , attacking tenaciously and not giving at the back . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , therefore , import penetration increased from the mid 1960s onwards and then moved at an alarming rate in the early 1970s . |