Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youth moved in to stay temporarily at the manse but a crisis occurred and he committed suicide . |
| 2 | In an attempt to prove they were unaffected by this , they raised their voices as they chatted to each other , and pretended not to glance uneasily at the nearby rectangles of darker , freshly turned earth . |
| 3 | ‘ We can talk tomorrow , ’ Barak replied then glanced lasciviously at the prostitute . |
| 4 | She swung round to stare wordlessly at the driver of the utility truck , who now leaned nonchalantly in the doorway . |
| 5 | As he folded the screen she stepped forward to look closely at the adjacent panel . |
| 6 | Such an objective would be ill-founded if the process of integration did not aim also at the Community 's complete monetary integration which can only be achieved through the establishment of a European currency union . |
| 7 | ‘ It is to Foinavon 's eternal credit that he did not refuse either at the melee when he had every excuse to or when he was out on his own especially when he was tiring , ’ Buckingham said . |
| 8 | Certainly Mr Lamont did not perform well at the hustings ; arguably his Budget last month did not in retrospect maximise the opportunities , limited though they were . |
| 9 | 624 ( see above , p. 41 ) , he did not do so at the court of the king of the eastern Angles but at that of the still-powerful Eadbald , king of Kent , whom he seems to have continued to treat with considerable respect . |
| 10 | But , says his co-worker Dr David Morgan , if Allison thought that this was due to the production of free-oxygen radicals , ‘ He certainly did not say so at the time . ’ |
| 11 | " The Four Points were the most celebrated diplomatic achievement of the Crimean war " , but did not seem so at the time they were agreed because Nicholas had just begun withdrawing his forces from the Danubian Principalities . |
| 12 | Tommaso did not call again at the farm that leave , and after the Easter holidays , Davide went back to Rupe for the short summer school term before the dog days drove most people indoors to keep cool , and some venturesome spirits down to the coast , to the white sand beaches at Dolmetta and Tirrani , where sea bathing was just becoming popular among adults . |
| 13 | Baseline , FEV 1 , heart rate , plasma potassium concentration , QTc interval , tremor amplitude , and creatine kinase concentration ( including myocardial isoenzyme ) did not differ significantly at the four visits ( table I ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I suppose it was good for us , but we did n't think so at the time . |
| 16 | I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God ! |
| 17 | Tetsu did n't aim directly at the flagstick . |
| 18 | ‘ Surely she did n't bathe alone at the Cove , especially at that time of the year ? ’ |
| 19 | I said , oh perhaps they could come up to us you know , I did n't know quite at the moment what our plans were for over the weekend . |
| 20 | ‘ In other words you could n't bear the thought that there might just be one female in a hundred-mile radius who did n't fall apart at the seams every time you deigned to smile in her direction , ’ she spat back . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He remembered falling , and the deck coming up to hit him , which brought back the sensation — although it had n't done so at the time — of the moment just before the torpedo hit Lanark . |
| 23 | I had previously done likewise at the London magazine , Midweek , which I then edited . |
| 24 | Picasso had never shown publicly at the big Salons , but Braque 's Cubist works exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants of 1909 were widely discussed and were undoubtedly an influence on some painters , while they must have helped others to interpret Cézanne in a more intellectual , objective way . |
| 25 | She refused outright to live here at the château . |
| 26 | Just over half of those who retired prematurely did so at the same time as their redundancy . |
| 27 | Even her brothers were kind , though embarrassed and Clara , as she sat there picking endlessly at the fringe of the tablecloth , had a vision of some other world where violent emotion could be a thing of beauty , where even tears could be admitted and not ignored , where good taste in tomb stones consisted not in cheap restrained economy of design , fabric , and word , but of marble angels wildly grieving . |