Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And somewhere tucked away at the back of one 's mind was the knowledge that every crystal in the vast whiteness , though too small for the human eye to see , was fashioned like a flower or a star . |
| 2 | The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin . |
| 3 | He picked up a mirror and looked at his own face , and then looked again at the face in the portrait . |
| 4 | Tubby took one swallow and then looked up at the Colonel . |
| 5 | Rohmer took a step towards them , still massaging his hand and then looked back at the girl . |
| 6 | Robyn listened , stared , digesting all that he had said and then looked back at the magnificent sixty-foot holly tree . |
| 7 | And for the first time , she got a response , for Isobel bobbed her head slightly and then looked down at the infant in the cot . |
| 8 | ‘ If you do n't keep in that fall , I 'm stopping your sweets , ’ he said , and then looked down at the mass of Arthur on the ground . |
| 9 | Artemis curtsied again , and then stared up at the beautiful and elegant woman . |
| 10 | He gave a little wave of the hand and then stared out at the traffic , past the lordly oak and its huge yellow ribbon . |
| 11 | Oh yes quite so and if they 're doing well they really , local people really get behind them , but they , they 've prom in previous seasons they they 've promised so much and then fell away at the end that people have got a bit disillusioned and discontented so that , but like last year when they were doing well in the cup they erm at Watford I mean loads of people went to see them . |
| 12 | But perhaps she had seen others at the tree tops , for she clattered her talons violently on the top of her cage , crashed down on to its concrete floor , her wings smashing against the branch that projected across her cage , and then lunged forward at the door of her cage , driven by an impulse that spoke of a terrible longing to be free . |
| 13 | Another hundred yards , and then held again at the Kingsclere-Burghfield Common crossing . |
| 14 | She hesitated and then sat down at the far end of one where a lone man was wholly immersed in a newspaper . |
| 15 | He cut inside but then shot straight at the goal keeper , and in the seventy second minute , Stein 's low shot was pushed for a corner by Stowell . |