Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends and colleagues past and present got together at the Brunswick Arms in Stamford Street to give him a big send off . |
| 2 | Preston and London East are already there ( CONGRATULATIONS ! ) and I know you have all been working hard to ensure the National Assessment goes well at the end of November . |
| 3 | The mare plunged gallantly at the hillside , but even the long rest in the dark cool wood had not restored her full strength . |
| 4 | Ushered in at last , passing through a spotless surgery agleam with modern equipment , and offered seats in an equally efficient-looking office , Sophie 's heart jerked suddenly at the sight of the man who was holding out his hand . |
| 5 | Nails screeched and popped , and the board juddered away at the bottom as something outside slammed against the wood . |
| 6 | His long hair stopped neatly at the level where it curved most attractively , but his shave was indifferent . |
| 7 | Together they formed the Jewish Comedy Club appearing Upstairs At The Picket in Hardman Street as part of the Liverpool Festival of Comedy . |
| 8 | While a Western eye is familiar with the process of looking , as it were , through an image to what it represents or means , an Eastern critic looks also at the surface of a painting or a drawing , in which a poem or other calligraphic element may form an integral part of the work . |
| 9 | The club meets regularly at The Fox Covert , High Leven . |
| 10 | It would be like the attempt to look directly at the sun that dazzles and finally blinds rather than enlightens . |
| 11 | I had a vision of the little green car waiting quietly at the roadside . |
| 12 | A light flared briefly at the side of the furthest cart , and then a torch flew through the air over the target . |
| 13 | Waking or sleeping his mind fretted away at the case , images drifted in and out of his consciousness , words and phrases came to mind in a confusing jumble but once , in a doze , it seemed that Beryl was actually speaking to him in her clear , cracked voice . |
| 14 | ‘ Yeah , ’ Bonanza pulled slowly at the lobe of his left ear . |
| 15 | I have a horse running tomorrow at the Curragh . ’ |
| 16 | The old car went well at the start of the season , but attention to detail was wanting . |
| 17 | Until the early 1980s , the smallest sizes of practice increased proportionately at the expense of all other size groups . |
| 18 | Her mind gnawed away at the questions . |
| 19 | In Fig. 9.4 the original floodplain of the river is represented by the terrace A , while , after one rejuvenation , a second terrace B was formed into which the river is again cutting down to form a third terrace C. Each terrace disappears upstream at the point to which the head of rejuvenation has receded : this can be more readily appreciated from a section down the valley ( Fig. 9.5 ) . |
| 20 | My muddled mind smiled vaguely at the idea of Moses turning down such a long-running client . |
| 21 | The eyes glanced in the direction of Nadirpur sitting demurely at the bar . |
| 22 | The 39-year-old , on what he insists is his last tour , re-asserted his intention to return home at the end of the India leg on 6 March — rather than go , after all , to Sri Lanka for the final fortnight in an effort to help restore confidence and belief to his side . |
| 23 | The extract comes right at the end of the Foreword . |
| 24 | In time , however , she rose and moved off to sample the hedgerow , stretching her long , white neck to nibble delicately at the tips of the hawthorn . |
| 25 | In the garden , her sister drove ferociously at the root of a weed clump with her fork , allowing her aching back and legs to take the place of thought . |
| 26 | They assumed that pupils , mostly boys , of course , who were failing on the school reading scheme simply needed more and more opportunity to slog away at the phonics and sight vocabulary while under tight supervision . |
| 27 | The child looks fearfully at the sky ) . |
| 28 | Indeed , despite the Sixties ' experiments with alternative life-styles , the despised suburban style looks like seeing the century through , for all its drawbacks of loneliness , boredom and exasperation , which made the man in the New Yorker cartoon say plaintively at the cocktail party : ‘ I want to talk about something else besides kids and illness ! ’ |
| 29 | The boy gestured sullenly at the bed . |
| 30 | With the issue priced right at the bottom of market expectations , analysts last night forecast that shares will start trading at a hefty profit . |