Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swam down to sniff at the trembling . |
| 2 | He bent down to stare at the floor . |
| 3 | After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human . |
| 4 | On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying . |
| 5 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 6 | The eerie lights would hang in the air for quite some time then the mortars came over to burst at the edge of the wood . |
| 7 | The ever increasing army of tourists who came up to look at the scenery was growing . |
| 8 | Still looking doubtful , she went off to fill the order , and when Ellie had eaten it all , down to the very last scrap , and had two cups of coffee , she came back to stand at the table , full of admiration and amazement . |
| 9 | And on one occasion in the gymnasium , I turned round to look at a boy behind me and the master was there and he smacked me with the flat of his hand as hard as he could . |
| 10 | Each time that he got up to speak at a meeting , they would chant the lines in unison with him — even correcting his lapses of memory — until the predicted riot broke out . |
| 11 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 12 | Alice smiled and nodded , and got up to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 13 | thank you and if you walked around to look at the flat , would you find a lake and whacking big golf course in the middle of it ? |
| 14 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 15 | After a distinguished student career at Emmanuel College , Cambridge , he went on to study at the University of Paris under Suzanne Bastid . |
| 16 | They had one drink — Maxim had never seen anyone order a triple Scotch before — and went on to eat at a roadside café . |
| 17 | She reached over to look at the bacon before saying , ‘ No ; thank you . |
| 18 | And I had one rehearsal of two Bach pieces which were really difficult and I was com , feeling completely frantic during the break in rehearsal , and went over to look at the music and some fellow called Don bounded over to me and said , oh you ca n't be you know you sh ca n't be looking at that now , ba , la dee da dee da ! |
| 19 | He ate a dish of cornflakes while wandering around the kitchen and then went out to look at the Triumph , still parked in front of the house . |
| 20 | The rain having petered out for a while , we all went out to stare at the sunset , about which the two poets made lurid remarks . |
| 21 | Cranston stood up and linked his arm through Athelstan 's as they went out to stand at the door whilst the ostler saddled their horses . |
| 22 | Charles felt the blood trickling down his leg into his wet sock and , still keeping low behind a rock , rolled round to look at the wound . |
| 23 | She ran up to listen at the bedroom door again . |
| 24 | With his second cup of tea in front of him , he sat down to look at the newspaper . |
| 25 | NORTHERN Ireland will be represented on a committee set up to look at the handling of complaints from National Health Service patients and their families . |
| 26 | In January 1989 , the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities convened a meeting of a group set up to look at the effect of these centres on authority centres . |
| 27 | He spent ten minutes attaching markers to the map , then sat back to look at the result . |