Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had found myself staggering from one situation to the next … we decided then that I was doing the same thing wrong you see , and so we looked at the actual practice … |
| 2 | Perhaps it acts at the lysosomal stage of the entry process outlined by Simons . |
| 3 | So it appeared at the public hearings . |
| 4 | As the doors slid open he glanced at the middle-aged couple who got out but then stared straight ahead again . |
| 5 | Once more I glanced at the large flour mill , temporarily closed , despite the addition of a new silvery turbine engine to take the place of water power . |
| 6 | Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’ |
| 7 | Turning her head slightly she looked at the cut-glass decanter on the bedside table — it was a little less than half full , which meant that she had drunk three … no , four glasses of whisky at some time during the night . |
| 8 | It might be said truthfully he died at the high point of his fame ! |
| 9 | Jack Spier has trouble keeping his emotions under control whenever he looks at the Red Cross letter from his parents saying goodbye . |
| 10 | Limply I gazed at the mortal oiliness of the water , in which no creature could prosper , and the dockside crowds of welcome floating and swimming above like tropical fish . |
| 11 | Now I look at the confident sexual swagger of young men with more than a faint envy . |
| 12 | Angrily she snatched at the home-made corsage . |
| 13 | Now she came at the bitter end and she never did anything . |
| 14 | But surely such intuitive resemblance must be based on some underlying implicit common themes our difficulty is that when we try to spell these out we arrive at the various problems experienced in our earlier attempts at definition . |
| 15 | Ten minutes ago I knocked at the front door , waited in the street . |
| 16 | Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon . |
| 17 | Today we halted at the grim-looking chasm which formed the entrance and watched a thundering swell drive into the cave mouth . |
| 18 | Here we look at the current cost of tax welfare . |
| 19 | Did n't they look at the real man ? ’ |
| 20 | He takes his time strolling over , and when he gets here he sits at the far end of the bench like he does n't know me . |
| 21 | Instinctively he clutched at the nylon-clad mound . |
| 22 | Then I looked at the cheerful cockney . |
| 23 | Sometimes I look at the other women , see one with a baby on her knee , then a little child runs up and tells her something that makes her laugh … |
| 24 | and then you look at the normal lights |
| 25 | And then she looked at the empty stairway beside her . |
| 26 | She used Peter 's knife to cut off the boot , then she looked at the broken leg . |
| 27 | Then she sat at the roll-top desk with the magazine in front of her , took a deep breath and lifted the receiver off its hook . |
| 28 | Then she sat at the big table with only a pot of tea for herself while Frankie and his father cleared their plates in silence . |
| 29 | While there she spoke at the International Gerontological Congress . |
| 30 | And then we sat at the far side of the Old Gate bridge and er an old lady came along and said , and she was counting them but she said , just look at that thing , she counted seven although , in actual fact , by then th these dra the seven drakes had stopped cha chasing the duck and they were all sitting down . |