Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enquiry looked at 1208 people who , in the application year ending 31 March 1980 , enquired , submitted application forms or dropped out at the various stages of the process of seeking to be matriculated , as well as those who matriculated and graduated . |
| 2 | The research seeks to assess how much of the business guaranteed by government export credit agencies would be declined by the private sector or accepted only at a higher price . |
| 3 | Er , the figures in paragraph five are shown there , but we had a recognition of that additional duty , and a variety of other minor changes which I wo n't go into this morning , that came through at the same time . |
| 4 | Boss David McErlain blames poor summer business and a vital sell-off deal that fell through at the last minute for this latest crisis . |
| 5 | In the fire-comer stood a black-and-white goat , with knobby little horns and eyes like yellow glass , and on the hearth lay a very large cat , a multi-coloured , mazy-patterned brindled cat , that looked up at the little tailor with eyes like cold green jewels , with black slits for pupils . |
| 6 | It roared over the deck , detonating against the stacked containers , bursting upwards in geysers that reached hungrily at the armoured plate glass of the bridge . |
| 7 | Various people answered , and no one knew where anyone was , and only three or four times was Alistair successfully connected to the apparently permanent coughing fit that crackled away at the other end of Smith 's extension . |
| 8 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 9 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 10 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 11 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 12 | " Sit here , near me , and let's be cosy … oh , well , perhaps just a touch , " she turned her eyes away from the bottle and gazed absently at the passing crowd until her glass was quite full . |
| 13 | A man climbed to the top and gazed helplessly at the curved expanse of the copper-sheathed dome . |
| 14 | The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall . |
| 15 | She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees . |
| 16 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 17 | ( In a letter to the Zoological Society written on 10 May and read out at the scientific meeting in London on 8 October , Gould described 19 new species , 13 of which he stated he had received from Dr Bynoe of the Beagle . ) |
| 18 | So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot . |
| 19 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 20 | He stood at the urinal and peed fiercely at the white ceramic wall , streaked with rusty tear-stains from the corroding pipes . |
| 21 | Chuck hesitated and peered out at the teeming streets of Cholon , which they were entering . |
| 22 | Then she paused and peered down at the writhing thread . |
| 23 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 24 | The latter 's delight and enthusiasm were such that he insisted that Nicholas should be sent to study at Oxford University and maintained there at the royal charge ; but a month later the youth died , on his twentieth birthday . |
| 25 | Sean gathered up the reins and drove off at a smart pace . |
| 26 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |
| 27 | He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building . |
| 28 | How he must have stared through the grid at freedom , and squinted hopelessly at the waxed wingnuts securing the gate of his oubliette . |
| 29 | Harry tugged back the curtains and squinted out at the painful brightness of a frosty morning . |
| 30 | It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky … |