Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case the solvent has to be evaporated or boiled off at a low temperature . |
| 2 | The enquiry looked at 1208 people who , in the application year ending 31 March 1980 , enquired , submitted application forms or dropped out at the various stages of the process of seeking to be matriculated , as well as those who matriculated and graduated . |
| 3 | Everyone in the board room was either clearing his throat , or shifting position in his seat , or doing both at the same time , which is actually rather difficult . |
| 4 | If you can help please telephone DAD on Darlington or call in at the local office at the Friends Meeting House , 6 Skinnergate , Darlington . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 7 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 8 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 9 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 10 | " Sit here , near me , and let's be cosy … oh , well , perhaps just a touch , " she turned her eyes away from the bottle and gazed absently at the passing crowd until her glass was quite full . |
| 11 | A man climbed to the top and gazed helplessly at the curved expanse of the copper-sheathed dome . |
| 12 | The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall . |
| 13 | She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees . |
| 14 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 15 | In reality , individuals may not be able to borrow and lend freely at a given interest rate . |
| 16 | A disconsolate group of climbers sitting round a kitchen table all lean forward and peer out at the iron-grey clouds rumbling past . |
| 17 | ( In a letter to the Zoological Society written on 10 May and read out at the scientific meeting in London on 8 October , Gould described 19 new species , 13 of which he stated he had received from Dr Bynoe of the Beagle . ) |
| 18 | Laura sighed , leaning back on the hard bench and gazing up at the overcast sky . |
| 19 | Of course she could , she told herself , clenching her fists and gazing unseeingly at the distant mountain-tops . |
| 20 | The gulls were in good voice , however , soaring and shrieking overhead in a fickle , shifting breeze , and Harry was surprised how contented if not downright happy he felt , sitting in the shelter nearest the clock and gazing out at the white horses in the bay . |
| 21 | So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot . |
| 22 | The dawg will diverge from the node at the end of the head string , and converge again at the first node of the tail string . |
| 23 | Charles Fleming and I had a chance to look around the beautiful shops , and eat out at the RED SEA PALACE HOTEL ( pure magic by the way ) . |
| 24 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 25 | And in fact prices would seem now to be levelling off somewhat throughout the country , slowing down in the North and levelling off at the current levels in the South . |
| 26 | He stood at the urinal and peed fiercely at the white ceramic wall , streaked with rusty tear-stains from the corroding pipes . |
| 27 | The work reported in this thesis was sponsored by General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation plc and carried out at the Medical Research Council 's Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge and I thank Alan Baddeley and all at the unit for making the work possible . |
| 28 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
| 29 | Chuck hesitated and peered out at the teeming streets of Cholon , which they were entering . |
| 30 | Then she paused and peered down at the writhing thread . |