Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , it promised to look again at the case of Canford Heath in Dorset , where a recent court judgement upheld the decision by Poole Borough Council to build houses on the heath in the face of vociferous opposition from conservation groups , led by the World Wide Fund for Nature [ see ED no . |
| 2 | It was too cold to stand and stare , and the wind kept buffeting us dangerously each time we tried to gaze across at the Ocean . |
| 3 | As they passed Guido and Ronni 's table , just for an instant Guido turned and seemed to smile directly at the girl . |
| 4 | Saturday was the one day on which he seemed to arrive early at the Herald office , but she doubted whether he would have got there yet . |
| 5 | No one else seemed to think so at the time . |
| 6 | Henry Mayhew described how the costers preferred tasty cable-cord trousers , ‘ made to fit tightly at the knee and swell gradually until they reached the boot , which they nearly cover ’ . |
| 7 | She thought she saw a movement and turned to look again at a stone figure lying on a tomb . |
| 8 | I do not wish you to violate your oath of secrecy or your conscience but , ’ and he tuned to look eagerly at the Bishop , ‘ with His Lordship 's permission , I would like to take you aside and quietly ask you one question ? |
| 9 | Professional advice was important to the MPs fighting the Representation of the People Bill and National Union committees began to meet again at every level to discuss the Bill 's consequences for the party . |
| 10 | One hacker 's wife remarked : ‘ The whole thing started when he began to work late at the office , and I began to think that there was another woman . |
| 11 | Then it moved closer and began to scratch frantically at the foot of the bin . |
| 12 | Last spring Nelson Mandela was released and the USSR began to split apart at the seams . |
| 13 | Luke began to mop clumsily at the pool of milk with a teacloth . |
| 14 | Barely a week into the tour , Johnny Marr was feeling the strain : ‘ I feel like I 'm in The Rolling Stones or any other rock band , ’ he said as the gruelling schedule began to etch away at the excitement generated by that first night . |
| 15 | The acid began to eat away at the edge of her tunic , the bottom strands of her curly hair . |
| 16 | Basuki , of Indonesia , had held two points for a 4–0 lead in the decider but the fourth seed began to miss forehands and Van Lottum began to attack more at the net . |
| 17 | He strode into the hall and started to peer expertly at the walls and ceiling . |
| 18 | He pulled , and managed to bend forwards at the waist like an oarsman . |
| 19 | THE list of processes thought to occur abiotically at the Earth 's surface has been shrinking on a yearly basis . |
| 20 | Thus it started popping up everywhere — even in Hobart , Tasmania , last Thursday night , when I went to speak there at a rugby dinner . |
| 21 | Its regulated , preventive surveillance features , in practice meant ‘ moving on ’ those civilians who dared to stand idly at the street corner . |
| 22 | This may have embarrassed Loughborough 's Richard Wareham , the tight-head who played in the England Under-21 front row when they hammered Romania in Bucharest last May , and the youngsters continued to go backwards at a rate of knots in tight and loose . |
| 23 | At the time my idea of manhood was personified as someone who had to work hard at a job he hated in order to support not only himself , but other people whose very existence he resented ; someone who was forever having to make difficult decisions and take frightening initiatives , both of which ended in frustration ; and someone who might be called upon to fight in wars ( National Service was then still in operation ) and kill people . |
| 24 | He was educated at a boarding school in Littlehampton , but had to leave abruptly at the age of sixteen for financial reasons when his father died suddenly of pneumonia . |
| 25 | Eurotunnel , where fears of another refinancing continued to eat away at the share price , and MEPC stood out as the only Footsie stocks to fall , off 1 at 402p and 2 at 286p respectively . |
| 26 | Calmer now that the crisis was past , she continued to gaze steadily at the inspector 's weary , intelligent face . |
| 27 | There was a long silence as Dodson and I looked in surprise at the farmer who continued to gaze fixedly at the cow . |
| 28 | They refused to go home at the end of their shift and worked frantically to reach him . |
| 29 | Many of the human victims clearly left their homes feeling full of optimism , carrying bags of gold , pieces of jewellery and other valued objects , which they refused to abandon even at the point of death . |
| 30 | She wanted to laugh aloud at the prospect of the delight she would give . |