Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " 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 | Then his weight lifted and she opened her dazed eyes , confused , as he moved away to sit at the edge of the bed . |
| 4 | She used ter sing at the Star in Abbey Street , ’ Broomhead informed him . |
| 5 | You 'd better start at the beginning . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd better start at the beginning , and it 's a long story . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd better begin at the beginning . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He seemed greatly cheered at the prospect of my arrival and held out his glass . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When at last I looked up we 'd almost arrived at the village . |
| 13 | Instead , he turned away to stare at the picture of her mother which was on the chest of drawers . |
| 14 | But Becky often skipped away to listen at the back . |
| 15 | Jinny felt her breath stop as her eyes swivelled automatically to look at the Hare-woman . |
| 16 | Others walked away to look at the island , and two men stayed to watch the boat . |
| 17 | Mrs Beavis looked plumply overflowing at the table . |
| 18 | I felt strangely repelled at the thought of eating meat . |
| 19 | She , and could , found she could not fly and laid there looking at the sky . |
| 20 | Blood matted the blond hair , and Lindsey took a deep breath as she leaned closer to peer at the wound . |
| 21 | In a letter of 1955 Tolkien had rather laughed at the idea that Willow-man and the wights were agents of the Dark Lord : ‘ Can not people imagine things hostile to men and hobbits who prey on them without being in league with the Devil ! ’ |
| 22 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 23 | The governors had effectively decided at an emergency meeting on Tuesday night that Mr Birt should stay but question marks still hung over the future of Mr Hussey , especially as the BBC 's General Advisory Council recommended on Wednesday that he should go for effectively bringing the BBC into disrepute at a time when its charter was coming up for renegotiation . |
| 24 | Holding the cow 's tail he leaned on the hairy back and , empty-eyed , blew smoke from the pipe which like most farmers at a cleansing he had prudently lit at the outset And of course , since the going was heavy , it just would happen that the job took much longer than usual . |
| 25 | It had all crystallised at a party . |
| 26 | But then I had one of my rare good ideas : why not try ringing up those breeders who had only advertised at the beginning of the breeding season , about six months before ? |
| 27 | In his sermons the Chaplain of Cadets had only hinted at the existence of terrible ultimate anti-Gods which stalked the warp , seeking to spill through into the cosmos to corrupt precious reality — the antithesis of all that the Emperor stood for ; forces which Marines should pray that they never encountered . |
| 28 | However , a few managers , probably because of the pressure of work , had only looked at the business plan the night before . ’ |
| 29 | But then of course Paula was so lovely she had only to look at a boy to have him crazy about her , Sally thought wretchedly . |
| 30 | I had only to look at the farmer 's face to know that the cow was worse . |