Example sentences of "[adv prt] briefly at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was hard at work in her jealously private workshop , though she called in briefly at the library from time to time , and I was invited back to the Lodge for meals some evenings . |
| 2 | He looked in briefly at the unconscious girl . |
| 3 | But first let us look back briefly at the events from 1945 to 1956 that provided the prologue to the post-imperial era which began at Suez . |
| 4 | She looked back briefly at the house behind her , low and grey with its long eighteenth-century windows and its sheltering clumps of trees , then she picked up her skirts and began to run up the slope towards the sea . |
| 5 | He looked around briefly at the women with the scraggy necks in the Laura Ashley dresses , and the men who all seemed to be wearing red ties , and probably Seiko watches — but for a different reason from Bob . |