Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something similar must have happened to Middleton 's crew because we met together at the station and took the train on the last lap to Cambridge . |
| 2 | The ducks gazed thoughtfully at the sky and flapped their wings , but not so much as a peep was uttered by any of them . |
| 3 | There is also a continuing technological backwardness I think I , I probably mentioned right at the outset that in nineteen fifty India had six times as many tractors per acre in cultivation as China did . |
| 4 | Nails screeched and popped , and the board juddered away at the bottom as something outside slammed against the wood . |
| 5 | It remains a subject of some curiosity that this apparently exceptional event occurred just at the time that the Greenpeace boat was moored offshore . |
| 6 | He tried again at the corner and got a smooth rounded canter . |
| 7 | His spirits sank again at the prospect and although he went out to Ruislip where his former battalion now had its headquarters , and although he was received by Colonel Bumford , his spirits were at zero three days later when Charity spoke to him on the telephone . |
| 8 | Write-offs also rose faster at the regionals than at the money-centre banks . |
| 9 | As the motor car gathered speed , the Annamese flailed wildly at the windshield until the glass splintered in the recruiter 's face , blinding him . |
| 10 | Whores of all sexes , augmented and non- , came here at the start and end of their shift to meet pimps , pushers , and ‘ privileged ’ clients . |
| 11 | But Carolyn , backed up by Phil Morris , hammered away at the point that furnishing fabrics were not like clothes , where customers did not expect to come back for more of the same . |
| 12 | Still , I did n't risk a second run and instead I turned left at the end and found myself back on Plumstead Road . |
| 13 | Assisted by Southgate and two sleepy-eyed , half-dressed servants we hammered again at the door until it buckled , creaking and groaning , before snapping back , breaking the lock . |
| 14 | She had also left some grasses free-flowing , stuck only at the bottom so they could move in the breeze , but had been told this was not strictly according to tradition . |
| 15 | Juliet glanced quickly at the girl as she folded up the stethoscope . |
| 16 | She had almost forgotten herself by walking to the big front door , and giggled inwardly at the shock that she would have given Mrs Parker if she had done so . |
| 17 | ‘ When I said I was tired she glanced sideways at the bed and hinted she was fairly tired herself . |
| 18 | The woman twisted her mouth to the side in an expression of some scepticism , and glanced narrowly at the horse that was gratefully cropping the grass around them . |
| 19 | Van Gelder broke off to accept a sheet of paper from a seaman who had appeared in the doorway , glanced briefly at the message and handed it without a word to Talbot , who read it in turn , muttered something inaudible and swung his legs to the deck . |
| 20 | If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive , it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine , and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings , far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission . |
| 21 | Ten minutes later , Garvey knocked softly at the door and Gabriel let him in along with Lucie , Izzie and the musicians . |
| 22 | A little later , she glanced again at the book and said : ‘ A side of life I know nothing about . |
| 23 | He gave her the rake and she went vigorously at the hay while he plaited a grass rope to put round a burden and heft it down to the byre . |
| 24 | Mrs Rae looked critically at the tree and said , ‘ Silver foil . |
| 25 | Oh yes quite so and if they 're doing well they really , local people really get behind them , but they , they 've prom in previous seasons they they 've promised so much and then fell away at the end that people have got a bit disillusioned and discontented so that , but like last year when they were doing well in the cup they erm at Watford I mean loads of people went to see them . |
| 26 | He looked helplessly at the wires and intricate bits of metal in front of them . |
| 27 | Through a swell of tears Ruth stared incredulously at the bundle and felt such despair that she feared she would drop the child . |
| 28 | Teachers , therefore , need to took both at the frequency and the proportion of their interactions in considering how to make the best use of the strictly limited time available for interacting with each of their pupils . |
| 29 | She looked slyly at the children and laughed when they laughed . |
| 30 | She looked mutinously at the scenery and listened to the clunking noises of the car as it trundled along , allowing minimal ventilation through the tiny windows that only slid across to open halfway . |