Example sentences of "[vb past] again at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Adomnan recalls in his biography of Columba , written a century after the saint 's death , that one day the monks became aware of a strange presence in one of their pastures ; this experience occurred again at the same time every evening .
2 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 .
3 As the hospital grew bigger and nearer , she glanced again at the little boy and saw with horror that he was tiny .
4 She looked again at the tiny hut .
5 But when I looked again at the taut group riveted to the game , now not even speaking , I had my doubts .
6 She looked again at the small girl with bright eyes standing beside her desk so sensible and solemn .
7 She looked again at the rear-view mirror and saw that the Audi was turning into a side road , allowing her to go .
8 I looked round the room , then I looked again at the old man .
9 I looked again at the little cat .
10 Together the two men looked again at the light wound , stretching down diagonally from the back of the neck towards the armpit .
11 McAllister finished the right front of the coatee , as Matey called it , cast off , and looked again at the half-grandfather clock with a sigh .
12 Lt. Mikhail Vologsky stared again at the buff-coloured application form , so meticulously filled out , and so callously rejected .
13 Marjorie smiled again at the other woman .
14 It was to be nine months before we finally emerged again at the other end of the archipelago — shocked , emaciated , but exalted .
15 ‘ They met again at the same hotel .
16 She gazed again at the peaceful scene in front of her until her eyes rested on an old Severn Punt lying high and dry on the foreshore .
17 He paused again at the next landing and peered out of the open window into the back-court .
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