Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 2 | Now empty , decay and neglect are slowly eating away at the building 's fabric . |
| 3 | Luca Cumani 's promising colt , Montendre ( next best 3.15 ) , got even closer to Welney at Yarmouth and has since won easily at Brighton . |
| 4 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 5 | BARRY LANE produced a best-of-the-week 66 to come from eight behind to force a tie with Jose-Maria Canizares ( 74 ) in the Rome Masters at windswept Castelgandolfo yesterday , only to lose out at the fourth play-off hole . |
| 6 | ‘ What time did your husband leave this morning ? ’ he asked quietly , noting a pair of nervous eyes suddenly flash across at him . |
| 7 | and , er I always say that I am so grateful I am not , because I 've seen what it 's done and our Marg with Val her sister , we 've both got sisters who are extremely jealous you 've seen them , you 've seen jealously eat away at them |
| 8 | She could almost imagine the door opening and Isabelle coming in to sit down at the dressing-table with its pretty antique tortoiseshell and silver toilet set , humming softly as she loved to do . |
| 9 | They only gazed back at us with eerie little smiles . |
| 10 | D J LONG TURNS UP AT ROSH INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS |
| 11 | And although the competition only got underway at the NEC event , organisers Reed Automotive have already been flooded with calls from owners . |
| 12 | Seeing Alice 's commenting face , Muriel said swiftly , " But he only got back at three this morning , and those Channel boats … |
| 13 | Hareton inherited nothing from his father , and could only stay on at Wuthering Heights as a servant , working for the man who had been his father 's enemy . |
| 14 | Their rooms at the Royal Albion Hotel were just a few doors from each other and it was Ken 's job to see that she always had her mug of cocoa before going to bed — and indeed that she was warmly tucked up at the right time for a lady of her years and responsibilities . |
| 15 | With only three minutes remaining in their Sharwood 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final clash against Pegasus , Sinead , who had only come on at the start of the second-half , popped up to score the only goal of the game . |
| 16 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 17 | In Lucien 's family , they had only come together at the times appointed by the Church : meals , various holidays , family councils and those mysterious , Church-nominated occasions when children were conceived . |
| 18 | And he denied a suggestion that the health promotion role could be better carried out at district health authority level because of the need to take an overall view of priorities . |
| 19 | In fact it seemed that at that time ( early 1977 ) sexual examination had become common practice at Heathrow Immigration Department , apparently carried out at the whim of the officials . |
| 20 | Noreen suddenly looked up at the Italian woman . |
| 21 | ‘ Yeah , we 'll take you up on that , Dave , ’ Graham said then suddenly looked despairingly at the sealed container . |
| 22 | She was reassured when he suddenly looked down at her and winked appreciatively . |
| 23 | With some misgivings , Wolfgang settled down to work steadily at a stream of compositions , beginning with the Italian serenata Il sogno di Scipione ( Scipio 's Dream ) for the ceremonial enthronement of the new archbishop on 14 March 1772 . |
| 24 | He only glances up at the television occasionally , as he is intent on finishing these as quickly as possible in order to give himself ti me to write a letter home to his wife . |
| 25 | Isabel could only gape up at him . |
| 26 | It was such a shock to feel his animosity directed so unwaveringly towards her ; even though , after last night , she could have been prepared for something , she could only gape down at him . |
| 27 | She was a docile creature and merely looked round at me as she cropped the grass ; and her eyes were no longer sunken but bright and full . |
| 28 | His marriage seemed like the Atlantic Ocean to her , something vast and unknowable which she could not attempt to bridge but only fly over at a terrible speed . |
| 29 | Bitterly aware of a deep tide of crimson flooding over her face and body , she could only glare back at him with deep loathing . |
| 30 | There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation . |