Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Lucien 's family , they had only come together at the times appointed by the Church : meals , various holidays , family councils and those mysterious , Church-nominated occasions when children were conceived . |
| 2 | ‘ The sandwiches 'll be all curled up at the edges , ’ his mum complained . |
| 3 | ‘ By the mid-Fifties , ’ said Heston , ‘ That was all coming apart at the seams . |
| 4 | The way the ground just curled up at the edges until you lost sight of it , we could n't have crept up on a hunk of soya . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Charlie , yer best call in at the police station on yer way to work tomorrer mornin' . ’ |
| 6 | Corrosion within heating systems gradually eats away at the insides of steel radiators to form iron oxides — the brown or black sludge that is so familiar to any d-i-y plumber . |
| 7 | Fergus took no notice ; he kept on crying , still staring up at the holes in the ceiling . |
| 8 | Many black teachers hardly fare better at the hands of their white colleagues , often finding themselves the butt of racist jokes , hostile remarks and isolation in the staff room . |
| 9 | Write-offs also rose faster at the regionals than at the money-centre banks . |
| 10 | The Blues are also looking enviously at the Ports Dublin-based midfielder Martin Russell . |
| 11 | Most haulage businesses will probably look carefully at the prospects in Europe when reviewing new market potential . |
| 12 | We now look briefly at the eigenvectors . |
| 13 | Now look up at the towers guarding the entrance to Charles Bridge . |
| 14 | Now look back at the extracts from Lawrence , Boyle , Ozick , Betjeman and Joyce . |
| 15 | He had turned to fly around the eastern edge of the island 's encircling reefs and was now staring intently at the houses , searching for any signs of danger , but it seemed as though Murder Cay was deserted . |
| 16 | Mr Brocklehurst , on the other hand , now looked round at the girls , and almost jumped in surprise . |
| 17 | I mean , she do n't even look up at the lights . |
| 18 | Graham has frequently hit out at the authorities for squeezing in too much football . |
| 19 | He filled it : huge , almost squared off at the edges . |
| 20 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 21 | If you 've set your heart on some specific feature — say , white carpet — and find it 's not feasible or practical or that it 's too expensive , then look sensibly at the alternatives and find a less impossible compromise . |
| 22 | He simply shrugged , tapped her on the shoulder with his staff , then pointed again at the rajathuks . |
| 23 | Those who joined her in France had their individual grievances against the court , and the bishops in their various ways either suffered financially at the hands of the king or had been prevented from properly exercising their episcopal authority . |
| 24 | Women simply never turned up at the showrooms of one of America 's top designers dressed like that , and with practically no make-up . |
| 25 | Wh what , what was actually going on at the tenants ' group then ? |