Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Muldoon winced visibly at the younger man 's cruel analogy .
2 He grinned fondly at the younger man .
3 She put her shoulders back and smiled suddenly at the smaller girl .
4 The cottar , subsisting on an inadequate holding , had a greater need for cash earnings and more time to spare , but because he accepted the hierarchical consumption ethic of the village community his aspirations were lower , so that , although working longer , he did so at a lower intensity .
5 When a coinage did reappear in the reign of the Northumbrian king , Eanred , in the early ninth century it did so at a lower silver standard which continued to decline .
6 The research seeks to assess how much of the business guaranteed by government export credit agencies would be declined by the private sector or accepted only at a higher price .
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