Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever your situation , whether you are planning a change of direction or simply looking forward at the various opportunities open to you , the process of your decision-making is an important element of the choice itself . |
| 2 | And somewhere tucked away at the back of one 's mind was the knowledge that every crystal in the vast whiteness , though too small for the human eye to see , was fashioned like a flower or a star . |
| 3 | Green talks a good deal in an inflated style , and always looks sideways at the object he is speaking to ; when he looks directly forward , it is at some piece of furniture or other inanimate object , still talking all the while . |
| 4 | The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin . |
| 5 | He picked up a mirror and looked at his own face , and then looked again at the face in the portrait . |
| 6 | Go right and then turn right at the junction with the A689 to Weardale , follow the road down the hill and take the path through the gateway on the left . |
| 7 | For example , holding the breath during the execution of a move and then exhaling sharply at the moment of contact can concentrate power and increase speed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But perhaps she had seen others at the tree tops , for she clattered her talons violently on the top of her cage , crashed down on to its concrete floor , her wings smashing against the branch that projected across her cage , and then lunged forward at the door of her cage , driven by an impulse that spoke of a terrible longing to be free . |
| 10 | Another hundred yards , and then held again at the Kingsclere-Burghfield Common crossing . |
| 11 | To prevent putrefaction the soft organs were removed via an incision in the trunk , and then buried either at the place of death or separately with the body . |
| 12 | The whole thorny question of Equity membership is linked with the step from drama school to agent 's office — and indeed applies equally at the audition for the first job . |
| 13 | Maybe he 'll go to Novell and gracefully steal away at the opportune moment . |
| 14 | He was speaking very much more quietly than when he first came in and occasionally looked reproachfully at the door as if the thing which had depressed him was just the other side of it . |
| 15 | After 30 years in the mill , retired four years ago but still works part-time at the mill ; and last in line is who began his career with , completed 28 years at Eagle Mill and is now at Burston . |
| 16 | The things to avoid are principally a sort of subterranean trembling that begins in the body and communicates itself to your vocal chords and even , on occasion , to the chair in which you are sitting , and those long swallows , which you never seem to do at any other time but now occur unstoppably at the wrong point of emphasis in the sentence . |
| 17 | He cut inside but then shot straight at the goal keeper , and in the seventy second minute , Stein 's low shot was pushed for a corner by Stowell . |
| 18 | The terminal voltage of a battery usually remains reasonably constant during its normal discharge period but then falls dramatically at the end of its working life . |