Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acyclovir given intravenously , orally or applied directly at the site of infection can accelerate healing and restrict the spread and recurrence of many herpes infections ( British Medical Journal , 1982 , vol 285 , p 1223 . ) . |
| 2 | Hormone replacement therapy consists of the hormones oestrogen and progesterone taken daily to help replace those lost or produced erratically at the menopause . |
| 3 | Is it really necessary for you to have no claim if you are indeed made redundant or treated unjustly at the time when the contract finishes ? |
| 4 | But much of what they buy ends up being returned or hidden away at the back of a drawer . |
| 5 | No hair-stroking or sighing or staring sorrowfully at the ceiling , not for her . |
| 6 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 7 | Dexter sat back in his armchair , unsure whether to laugh outright or smile knowingly at the businessman 's practical joke . |
| 8 | It was shabby but civilised , alive with history but inhabited also by living poets and thinkers who could be found squatting on the slotted metal floors of the stacks , or arguing pleasantly at the turning of the stair . |
| 9 | Although probably built as a row by some Victorian property magnate , all the houses were slightly different from the front and all had been built on to or extended differently at the back . |
| 10 | Do n't choose a colour for its safety , because it is acceptable , or sells well at the art society exhibition . |
| 11 | The healthy stayed away , or hovered sceptically at the back of the crowd , talking as they waited for the first miracle . |
| 12 | But on Monday night the audience at the Queen Elizabeth Hall appeared neatly divided — between those who were willing to prolong the applause indefinitely and those who either disappeared discreetly halfway through or scarpered quickly at the end . |
| 13 | I.C.B. was interested in our neighbours — particularly a large family that lived upstairs at the time . |
| 14 | Mangroves are trees that grow right at the edge of the sea , held and nourished through characteristic prop roots that grip the soft mud . |
| 15 | This in turn led to the arm and gun junction boxes being redesigned horizontally next to each other rather than grouped centrally at the front . |
| 16 | And the Mediterranean , the great pale green sea that sloshes away at the coastline of Phoenicia , this too still shaped our movements and our lives , provided the essential and unchanging link between that distant , unphotographed world of Roberts and the country in which I now lived . |
| 17 | lonnbergii , dominican gulls Larus dominicanus , blue-eyed cormorants Phalacrocorax atriceps , and a wider selection of petrels that breed both at the surface and in cavities among scree . |
| 18 | Manchuria was known to be rich in raw materials , notably coal and iron ore , and capable of supporting a far larger population than dwelt there at the time . |
| 19 | Our understanding is that the Scottish Office brief is far wider than to look only at the promotion of Scotland as a destination . |
| 20 | In the narrow field that sloped upwards at the back between scrubby thickets Donald 's rake lay with its teeth in a swathe . |
| 21 | Dignity right now seemed a bit optimistic , when she could feel her eyes blurring over with tears , but anything was better than standing here at the foot of the stairs , rooted to the spot and subjected mercilessly to his naked inspection of her . |
| 22 | The eyes that tilt slightly at the corner . |
| 23 | There is a further reason that operates more at the level of values . |
| 24 | He went back , took a hoe from inside the door of his house and stabbed furiously at the cabbage patch , trying to rearrange the furrows in neat order . |
| 25 | He stopped , confused , by the bus stop opposite the Protestant Truth Society , and gazed unseeingly at the list of routes . |
| 26 | He puffed furiously on his pipe and gazed dreamily at the ceiling . |
| 27 | Katherine lay on the bed which had become hers and gazed blankly at the ceiling . |
| 28 | He took another sip of whisky and gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling . |
| 29 | Wholesome cooking used to mean a whole lot of work … not least of it , reaching up to the grill , and scrubbing away at the oven and hotplate . |
| 30 | I was standing motionless by the desk , and gazing vacantly at the letter , when I heard some footsteps outside the door . |