Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we just thought somewhere at the back where we could pin them against the wall . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Peruvian taxi drivers still smiled broadly at the memory . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | It often looked askance at the mainland . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Kit sometimes roared good-humouredly at the effect of her pronunciation , and sometimes sneered , and tried to straighten out her vowels . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ We can talk tomorrow , ’ Barak replied then glanced lasciviously at the prostitute . |
| 14 | Peskova bowed , then glanced again at the albino . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Alida almost laughed aloud at the picture this presented to her mind , except that it was scarcely an occasion for laughter . |
| 18 | Karl looked across the street to where , among the cargo boats , the French and British Embassies hung out their flags , then looked again at the battleship . |
| 19 | He picked up a mirror and looked at his own face , and then looked again at the face in the portrait . |
| 20 | She paused , then looked searchingly at the hersdman . |
| 21 | The T'ang smiled sadly , then looked across at the boy . |
| 22 | Graham rubbed his hands over his face then stared thoughtfully at the carpet for some time before finally looking up at Sabrina again . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ You never said so at the time , ’ she mutters . |