Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to smile benevolently at the scurrying passengers behind her . |
| 2 | After all , he had managed to dismantle the magical aspects of my eidesis and now he began to chew away at the very grist of what he termed my ‘ delusionary apparatus ’ . |
| 3 | For the first time in many months she contemplated the uncontemplatable , and thought that it might not be so with him , even though her heart began to thud uncomfortably at the very idea . |
| 4 | She hung it up carefully on a big wooden coat hanger and began to brush hard at the dried mud . |
| 5 | He found his sword and started to chop methodically at the doomed arms . |
| 6 | She smiled ruefully , then continued to wave frantically at the approaching train . |
| 7 | I had to think of her seeing the copy of my cock on Monday , I had to think of her first thinking , ‘ Golly , what a nut ’ , and then finding she had to stare uncontrollably at the specific image of my cock , boyoing , had to file that image away in a secret file folder where she filed away all my asterisk memos , and that some night working late , she 'd reach her long arms down to that drawer and bring out the asterisk file and go through the pages , asterisk after asterisk , until she found my cock . |
| 8 | In this way , the mind is taught and instructed to look inwardly at the spiritual nature [ of things ] , towards the secret power that is hidden in everything and works in everything in an incomprehensible way . |