Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Punitive taxes — and the insidious rhetoric that is invariably used to justify them , and then to raise them again — would eat away at the working spirit . |
| 2 | Vera had started to climax again as she saw Vashinov pump away at the young man , his breathing rapid as he reached towards his orgasm . |
| 3 | U/V light is potentially damaging to the eyes , and you should never look directly at a lit-up tube . |
| 4 | He would n't look twice at a small-town girl , even if she could design wedding dresses . |
| 5 | The conference will look closely at the common experience of Scotland and Ireland as peripheral regions and at the nature of their relationships — economic , social and cultural — with the metropolitan centre . |
| 6 | Sophie saw him look anxiously at an upper window as he acknowledged the introduction , then he said ‘ We have to speak very quietly as our little girl is asleep and she does n't know that Sandy is ill . ’ |
| 7 | Also , if the material is soft it may buckle easily at the inner side of the bend and vitiate the result . |
| 8 | His eyes were wired open so that he must stare unblinkingly at a giant Sagramoso head , and his own body had been reduced to roughly the same contours . |
| 9 | I return to the question that we shall level continually at the Labour party : what is the basis for thinking that there is any answer to the country 's problems through increasing the burden of taxation ? |
| 10 | Unexpected , it was like a surprise confrontation , and for a moment she could only stare blindly at the familiar name . |
| 11 | There is very little market in them — existing holders can sell only at a heavy loss . |
| 12 | Companies often recruit staff from speculative letters they have kept on file , and your letter may arrive just at the right moment . |
| 13 | You may refuse to believe it 's happened to you : some people who 've been made redundant pretend everything 's the way it was and set off for work at the same time , then spend hours hanging around the streets , teashops or libraries until they can go home at the usual time . |
| 14 | Though no match for Gaelstrom and Now Your Talkin , he was running on well into third at the end , and in receipt of 20lbs from Highland Spirit should go well at a big price . |
| 15 | Indeed , as a general problem , it is unlikely that two divisions will arrive amicably at a suitable transfer price . |
| 16 | RANGERS ' second match in the ‘ mini-league ’ European Cup stages , against CSKA Moscow , is to be switched from Santander , Spain , and will probably go ahead at a German venue to another venue , probably in Germany , on December 9 . |
| 17 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |
| 18 | A rhetorical approach would point directly at the argumentative nature of racist discourse . |
| 19 | Do come home at the agreed time ; if you 're going to be unavoidably late , ring your babysitter and let her know . |
| 20 | I thought I should go mad if my brother did not come home at the appointed hour , for I longed to thrust it into his hands . |
| 21 | In reality , individuals may not be able to borrow and lend freely at a given interest rate . |
| 22 | ( A cannonball fired upward from the earth will be slowed down by gravity and will eventually stop and fall back ; a photon , however , must continue upward at a constant speed . |
| 23 | But it is all too evident that there does not exist anywhere at the present time an active political movement which would be capable of initiating such a development , and if such a movement came into existence it would encounter immense difficulties . |
| 24 | She glanced at the road ahead , a road that seemed to just shoot upwards at a terrifying angle . |