Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The committee became so unnerved at the thought that the club premises might be under threat that when I said I knew how to deal with these bounders , but it could only be as chairman , they swallowed it hook , line and sinker .
2 ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’
3 Swam down to sniff at the trembling .
4 He bent down to stare at the floor .
5 After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human .
6 With a parting gift of prawns and fish from a friendly fisherman , we headed over to look at the islands of bum and Eigg on the way to Ardnamurchan .
7 Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder .
8 Luce made a sweeping gesture with one arm and tried not to wince at the pain .
9 She tried not to smile at the wording , and then she handed it back .
10 He tried not to look at the screens .
11 She tried not to look at the glass on the pink marble top of the wash-stand , empty , a sticky red stain at the bottom .
12 Then his weight lifted and she opened her dazed eyes , confused , as he moved away to sit at the edge of the bed .
13 On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying .
14 When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops .
15 There was one other issue which the CEGB tried hard to avoid at the Hinkley C Inquiry .
16 Ken Corduroy drove round to the Harrisons ' with an ingenious pool-cleaning device , a mechanical object that swam round scrubbing at the walls , he had ordered for them from England .
17 She used ter sing at the Star in Abbey Street , ’ Broomhead informed him .
18 You 'd better start at the beginning . ’
19 I 'd better start at the beginning , and it 's a long story . ’
20 ‘ I 'd better begin at the beginning .
21 Perhaps that was overstating what had happened out there , but , for first time in months , she 'd suddenly felt at the mercy of the audience , aware of every whisper , every stare .
22 Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys .
23 He seemed greatly cheered at the prospect of my arrival and held out his glass .
24 The eerie lights would hang in the air for quite some time then the mortars came over to burst at the edge of the wood .
25 The ever increasing army of tourists who came up to look at the scenery was growing .
26 Still looking doubtful , she went off to fill the order , and when Ellie had eaten it all , down to the very last scrap , and had two cups of coffee , she came back to stand at the table , full of admiration and amazement .
27 Indeed , we 'd often hooted at a poster of a diminutive Den , aged six , which bore the words : ‘ He 's six , he sings , he syncopates . ’
28 He came across to look at the image open on my lectern : a wild man covered in shaggy green fur was fighting a little hon with a club .
29 When at last I looked up we 'd almost arrived at the village .
30 Instead , he turned away to stare at the picture of her mother which was on the chest of drawers .
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