Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the device remained popular for a century after its invention , finding particular favour in France , where , according to one account , it sold so quickly at a fair in Paris that the stallholder was hustled out of town by the young men of the city who saw their favourite quarry rapidly being locked away . |
| 2 | Max appeared disappointed by the reply as he peered down again at the grisly work on which he was engaged . |
| 3 | Chapman had kept a close watch on Speirs ' feud with Bradford City , and moved in just at the right moment . |
| 4 | Grandparents who moved in only at the very end of their lives , just for a few last months , rarely left much of a mark unless earlier contact had been important . |
| 5 | When we went to phototype Matthews came out right at the right moment , to the week ! . |
| 6 | Nathaniel Sherman frowned down resentfully at the dead animal . |
| 7 | Meredith glanced up uncertainly at the four-storey buildings soaring up forbiddingly on either side of the alley where they were walking . |
| 8 | As he edged forward , Sendei glanced up occasionally at the far end . |
| 9 | He pushed past a group of waiting relatives … why people insisted on waving when the train was still so far away had always been a mystery to him … and glanced round sharply at a teenage girl who elbowed him accidentally , but painfully , in the back . |
| 10 | I got out silently at the next roundabout . |
| 11 | The O'Neil double-act started up again at the other end of the church , Denis responding to Paddy . |
| 12 | THE pub and brewery industry , which employs thousands of people in East Anglia , hit out yesterday at the five per cent duty increase on most alcoholic drinks . |
| 13 | He was centrally positioned in the six-yard box when he headed the first after 15 minutes ; the second , eight minutes before half-time , he met equally powerfully at the far post . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed lamely as she stared somewhat helplessly at the enormous four-poster bed that dominated the room . |
| 15 | He looked in briefly at the unconscious girl . |
| 16 | She rose to her feet , and looked down again at the rolling hillside covered with fruit and vegetables , with grazing goats , sheep and chickens . |
| 17 | When we reached the road we stopped and looked down again at the little house . |
| 18 | Martin charging down on Dobson ; Martin , eyes glaring and lips drawn back in a feral snarl ; Martin , arm raised and baton coming down again and again on Dobson 's head ; Martin , growling savagely at the yobs , daring them to interfere ; Martin , turing angrily as the sergeant pulled the baton from his hand ; finally , Martin , white and shaking , as he looked down disbelievingly at the unconscious Dobson . |
| 19 | Larsen looked down fondly at the gaunt soot smeared features of the hollow-eyed girl and nodded back . |
| 20 | Hazel looked once more at the faint line of the hills . |
| 21 | I grinned contemptuously at his retreating back , looked once more at the stable , saw an eyeball glistening on the wet straw and promptly vomited myself . |
| 22 | Then the girl looked more closely at the younger man and recognized him . |
| 23 | At first he was shocked into admiration but as he waited he looked more carefully at the dark wood of the large , ugly pieces of furniture , the thick embossing on the pale yellow wallpaper and the heaviness of the dark brown velvet curtains . |
| 24 | It looked real enough at a quick glance , and the Crane Street area is not the most brilliantly lighted neighbourhood in town . |
| 25 | With difficulty she stared up again at the unreachable sky beyond the bars and wire mesh of her cage and though she tried to say more she was unable to , for her wings sagged ever more weakly and she seemed barely able to hold up her head . |
| 26 | He looked up suspiciously at the northern sky , clear and tranquil . |
| 27 | The moment when it enters his or her head , that X was the one who did it , can thus be concealed and brought out only at the very end of the story . |
| 28 | When Laura came to stay , and swept into church in an Easter bonnet of her own devising which quivered with artificial lilac , and laughed out loud at a tiny joke in Peter 's sermon , to encourage him , one of the churchwardens wrote to the Bishop . |
| 29 | Then he looked back again at the blinding quayside . |
| 30 | From under fierce black brows a pair of hazel eyes looked out calculatingly at the impersonal kitchen , made spotless by the ministrations of a Dutch cleaning lady . |