Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] at the [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
2 | If one looks back at the text-books and review papers written about psychobiology during t , his period one finds that they were largely preoccupied with topics like motivation and emotion . |
3 | BLUE PLANET 's sensational photography explores continents and oceans , and looks too at the forces that influence our environment : storms , volcanoes , earthquakes , typhoons and , perhaps the most powerful of all , Mankind . |
4 | The path peters out at the falls and you either backtrack or tackle the heather hedgehog upwards to escape the gorge . |
5 | It comes in at the nerve-ends and is translated into chemical and electrical reactions . |