Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I finally arrived back at the Bible Room , headvoice was giving me unmerciful stick : |
| 2 | Of course being nervous he often drank a little too much , so that when he finally looked up at the end of the night it would be with something like desperation , a fear that no one was going to ask him to leave with them ; but the way he looked at you also meant that you knew he would never say no , if you did ask . |
| 3 | Well we just thought somewhere at the back where we could pin them against the wall . |
| 4 | Benjamin just stared down at the table , shaking his head . |
| 5 | But he said nothing , just sat down at the table , a pale-faced , freckled child , his school tie knotted to one side , and catching part of his collar . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's all cold , ’ she complains , then two minutes later she 's back eating it like she just sat down at the table . |
| 7 | He was n't the prettiest sight you would see on a golf course but , since he always turned up at the practice ground the following morning more or less on time and more or less clean-shaven , it was obvious that he patronised his own circuit of cheap guesthouses . |
| 8 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 9 | Peruvian taxi drivers still smiled broadly at the memory . |
| 10 | Although the memory of their near-quarrel still lurked somewhere at the back of Folly 's mind , the forefront of her attention had been much more pleasantly occupied . |
| 11 | THE Celtic manager , Liam Brady , and Tom Grant , the director who leaked information about the Parkhead board requesting a meeting with Brady to discuss the team 's performances , yesterday sat together at a press conference designed , apparently , to show a united front . |
| 12 | There is also a continuing technological backwardness I think I , I probably mentioned right at the outset that in nineteen fifty India had six times as many tractors per acre in cultivation as China did . |
| 13 | Brown also hit out at the content of rap music , saying , ‘ I 'm not knocking rappers , but there 's no reason children have to hear four-letter words on the radio . ’ |
| 14 | It practically went in at the nose . |
| 15 | By this good turn the bishop won the hearts of all , and the people began to listen more readily to his teaching , hoping to obtain heavenly blessings through the ministry of one to whom they already owed these material benefits ; Eddius Stephanus then pointed out that those ungrateful enough not to convert willingly did so at the king 's command . |
| 16 | Mr Mazowiecki also said pointedly at the time that he was not prepared to replace one philosophically biased government ( a communist one ) with another philosophically biased government ( an avowedly Catholic one ) . |
| 17 | Well it 's history that Langer and Graham never made it , although Langer nearly chipped in at the end to force that playoff and give us a few tremble s . |
| 18 | It often looked askance at the mainland . |
| 19 | The variations in their prosperity depended often on how far the developing cloth trade affected individual places ; some towns undoubtedly grew , particularly in the early sixteenth century , but they often did so at the expense of others rather than through a serious movement of population from the countryside , although some such drift occurred . |
| 20 | A GIRL today hit back at the judge who let her sex attacker walk free because she was ‘ not entirely an angel ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Kit sometimes roared good-humouredly at the effect of her pronunciation , and sometimes sneered , and tried to straighten out her vowels . |
| 23 | Tolonen gave a short laugh then glanced briefly at the Captain , before taking the clipboard back from his daughter and holding it open at the place she indicated . |
| 24 | ‘ We can talk tomorrow , ’ Barak replied then glanced lasciviously at the prostitute . |
| 25 | Wyn shook his head , then glanced round at the circle of villagers and the wailing old woman . |
| 26 | Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom . |
| 27 | Peskova bowed , then glanced again at the albino . |
| 28 | She pulled the black cloth back over his shoulders , then breathed deeply at the catch of sweat , mixed with deodorant , that rose from his armpit . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Alida almost laughed aloud at the picture this presented to her mind , except that it was scarcely an occasion for laughter . |