Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy .
4 She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky .
5 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 .
6 She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky .
7 " 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 .
8 A man climbed to the top and gazed helplessly at the curved expanse of the copper-sheathed dome .
9 The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall .
10 She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees .
11 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 .
12 ( 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 . )
13 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 .
14 They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt .
15 He stood at the urinal and peed fiercely at the white ceramic wall , streaked with rusty tear-stains from the corroding pipes .
16 Chuck hesitated and peered out at the teeming streets of Cholon , which they were entering .
17 Then she paused and peered down at the writhing thread .
18 Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it .
19 The latter 's delight and enthusiasm were such that he insisted that Nicholas should be sent to study at Oxford University and maintained there at the royal charge ; but a month later the youth died , on his twentieth birthday .
20 Sean gathered up the reins and drove off at a smart pace .
21 I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back .
22 He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building .
23 How he must have stared through the grid at freedom , and squinted hopelessly at the waxed wingnuts securing the gate of his oubliette .
24 Harry tugged back the curtains and squinted out at the painful brightness of a frosty morning .
25 It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky …
26 It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky …
27 The large fractured area containing the lateral cell membranes of surface mucous cells was observed and photographed randoly at a direct magnification of ×15000 .
28 She clattered back to her office and pounded away at the audio letters for an hour and a half , broken only by a trip to the kitchen for coffee .
29 I tilted the bottle against my finger and sniffed again at the clear residue , wondering what to do , then ( nothing ventured , nothing gained ) , rubbed my wet finger round my gums .
30 At the entrance , just near the gatehouse door , Cranston stopped and knocked hard at an iron-studded door .
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