Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rode on at an easy trot , eating up the ground , until finally Murtach said in disgust : ‘ Bragad 's lady — out for a ride , it seems , with five of her husband 's escort for company . ’ |
| 2 | The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall . |
| 3 | The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses . |
| 4 | Twenty years earlier , R. A. Butler had shared the same fate , recalling the ‘ blood curdling demands ’ made annually at the Conservative Party Conference for the restoration of corporal punishment which had ‘ quite clouded ’ his time as Chairman of the Party . |
| 5 | Wage regulation applied only at the upper limit . |
| 6 | So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot . |
| 7 | ‘ Our Association was formed in November 1981 when a group of concerned people got together at a public meeting in Llandrindod Wells . |
| 8 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 9 | IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC got together at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge'93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 10 | They gazed down at the innocent football being kicked back and forth against the wall outside , the thwack of the ball booming in the street amongst the traffic noise . |
| 11 | The oriental gazed down at the broken body of his defeated enemy . |
| 12 | In an uncomfortable silence Nathaniel Sherman and the others gazed down at the dead buffalo cow . |
| 13 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 14 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 15 | The President gazed thoughtfully at the two dispatches lying on his desk . |
| 16 | The Liberal Democrat vote sagged badly at the general election and they 'll be pleased still to hold seven council wards after this vote . |
| 17 | Witcher gaped down at the smoking hob in his chest . |
| 18 | Outside two young men peered in at the lighted women with their bottles and Jonquil 's cans of Carlsberg . |
| 19 | She peered down at the dark water in the basin below . |
| 20 | ‘ Mummy will be cross , ’ she murmured , wrinkling her nose as she peered down at the long tear . |
| 21 | Then she paused and peered down at the writhing thread . |
| 22 | One might think that this unpredictability would n't matter too much if it occurred only at the big bang ; after all , that was ten or twenty billion years ago . |
| 23 | In principle , this made profitable the speculative holding of stocks of goods whose price rose only at the average rate . |
| 24 | The windows of the car were open and they hummed along at a steady cruising speed meeting very little traffic . |
| 25 | The steel tracks ground along at a steady rate , flattening glorious highly-finned autos , scattering pedestrians and levelling lampposts . |
| 26 | The banquet began with the usual mumbo-jumbo , except the cardinal dined alone at the high table under a rich cloth of state , his fat body almost hidden by platters of heaped delicacies , whilst all around him stood serving men to refill his goblet , replenish napkins or offer a fresh knife . |
| 27 | His lips sucked eagerly at the golden liquid . |
| 28 | Vologsky grasped desperately at the floating straw . |
| 29 | Here she found Mrs Geary , kindly smoothing Twomey 's hair with her hand , while he boned away at an elegant shoe . |
| 30 | Then it moved away at a brisk trot , the small and incredibly ugly imp that was perching on its lid watching the scenery with interest . |