Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | If her treatise was to fulfil the expectations raised by its prologue , she must make this difficult passage now — though it was , at times , an agony merely to remain seated at her desk . |
| 2 | But as more unwanted probings prodded , she was set to seriously wonder if indeed it was good enough to have called at Vendelin Gajdusek 's home and left it at that . |
| 3 | It would be impossible not to enjoy staying at the Venus — they 're some of our nicest apartments in Ibiza . |
| 4 | we tried desperately to avoid looking at her , right . |
| 5 | It will not come from Government spending , because the Government will have to borrow massively to keep going at the present mean levels of public spending . |
| 6 | ‘ The only way of dealing with that sort of thing is not to get involved at all . |
| 7 | Melanie kept her eyes on the witch-ball so as not to have to look at Uncle Philip . |
| 8 | Bivalves seem generally to have evolved at a slow canter rather than a brisk gallop ( see ammonites pp. 73–6 ) and some living bivalves have a very long ancestry ; the small sized genus ( Nucula ) has relatives in Ordovician rocks not very different from Recent species . |
| 9 | I think this whole thing of racing off to get divorced at the first snag you hit seems pathetic . ’ |
| 10 | The Scouts had hellfired crowded transport sledges that slid at speed down glossy oiled vitrodur channels , diving from transit stations , canting along branch-lines , corkscrewing , swooping up to come to rest at other destinations … |
| 11 | On one issue — the nature of the orcs — Tolkien seems very nearly to have arrived at a solution without quite being able to grasp it , a sign , perhaps , of exhaustion . |
| 12 | It 's very immediate , we need to be able often to change tack at a , a half a day 's notice , sometimes a minute 's notice , sometimes half a day , so there 's that little problem as well . |
| 13 | The ships then set out to return to base at speed of 10km/h. at 8 p.m. the cutter increased speed to 20 km/h while the launch kept going at 10 km/h . |
| 14 | She killed smiling , and there were few who , having seen her kill , wanted even to risk dying at her hands . |
| 15 | Will donors be prepared to provide the extra funds needed for reconstruction or even to continue funding at current levels ? |
| 16 | It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through . |
| 17 | The separate recordings can then be viewed after the event and decisions about how to edit taken at that point . |
| 18 | He decided that operations in the first instance were to be confined chiefly to level driving at Paddy Etid ( the Levers Water side of the grant ) , and also to cross-cut to the Bonsor Vein both in , and below , Red Dell . |
| 19 | I suppose well my children would say my answer to everything is to say to them breathe , you know , and erm you know just do very simple relaxation if nothing else , and then that allows you maybe to start looking at other things , but to get to the state where you can begin to look at things without the fears and emotions getting in the way . |
| 20 | Find out how to get promoted at work . |
| 21 | Is it better to have published and gone out of print than never to have published at all ? |
| 22 | Which was worse — to have tried and failed or never to have tried at all ? |