Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at the [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It ca n't be that time , ’ she said , bounding up , only to clutch at the table as her head started up again . |
| 2 | If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books . |
| 3 | This type of butterfly eye-spot should not be confused with the much larger eyes that occur on some species — eye-spots that are suddenly flashed at the enemy as it draws close . |
| 4 | It was tedious , but no longer alarming , and as she contrived most mornings to slip down to the shore for gulps of sea air , though she was careful now never to go beyond the rocks around the headland , she did not chafe at the confinement as once she had . |
| 5 | One can therefore presume that he was not looking at the landscape as scenery but as habitat . |
| 6 | ( Mitterrand was widely interpreted at the conference as having warned that francophone African states which did not adopt multiparty democracy would be less favourably considered in France 's future allocation of aid . ) |
| 7 | Pascoe was still grinning at the story as he rang the doorbell of Arthur Evans 's house . |
| 8 | Well to work at the weekend as well |
| 9 | Or , you can simply relax at the hotel as it offers excellent amenities for a comfortable holiday . |
| 10 | It might well be that some of them had work as servants , or in agriculture — but there would be strong competition for the latter , for quite apart from the regular farm labourers there were a considerable number of workmen not as fully employed at the mine as perhaps they would have wished . |
| 11 | I just sat there staring at the bag as it unscrewed itself and the wind took it and blew it up into the air and away . |
| 12 | Angry Brian Reatus , 44 , allegedly foamed at the mouth as he pinned him to the wall . |
| 13 | The Commander-in-Chief in Scotland was Lieutenant-General Sir John Cope , later the subject of a derisory song ‘ Hey , Johnny Cope ’ , and unkindly described at the time as ‘ a little , dressy , finical [ i.e. fussy ] man ’ . |