Example sentences of "[adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ PC. 2. ] leered intimidatingly at the guy , who had no comment to make . |
| 2 | Although he kept looking up eagerly at the sky , it was obvious that he could see nothing . |
| 3 | I do not wish you to violate your oath of secrecy or your conscience but , ’ and he tuned to look eagerly at the Bishop , ‘ with His Lordship 's permission , I would like to take you aside and quietly ask you one question ? |
| 4 | She looked up eagerly at the sound of footsteps , but then , as she saw the two women , with an almost human expression of disappointment she turned her head away and with a heavy sigh lowered her head to her paws . |
| 5 | The frequency of a particular kind of syntactic structure ( say a relative clause ) will probably be less important than the fact that that structure tends to occur in a particular position in the sentence ( eg at the end , or at the middle ) . |
| 6 | Everyone was chuckling nostalgically at the thought of the Magistrate , who was very likely dead by now . |
| 7 | Actually , she opened with Mozart 's scena Misera , dove son which tested her somewhat at the top of the stave , but there followed arias from Manon , Don Pasquale and La Forza del Destino which she gave with commanding conviction , variety and characterisation . |
| 8 | Dynastic concord and family harmony were , however , bought somewhat at the expense of the two princes ' subjects . |
| 9 | From where she stood it shimmered in silver under a glancing sun , though upstream at the inn , where she had seen it close to , it rolled darkly brown and turgid , and laden with the debris of bushes , for the spring thaw had come late and violently , bringing down an immense weight of snow-water from the mountains of Wales . |
| 10 | In Fig. 9.4 the original floodplain of the river is represented by the terrace A , while , after one rejuvenation , a second terrace B was formed into which the river is again cutting down to form a third terrace C. Each terrace disappears upstream at the point to which the head of rejuvenation has receded : this can be more readily appreciated from a section down the valley ( Fig. 9.5 ) . |
| 11 | She switched on the bedside lamp and looked dazedly at the clock . |
| 12 | Good riddance , she thought , scowling fiercely at the water . |
| 13 | Then Jilly cast off her chadour and sang , a plaintive rendering of ‘ The Winter of Seventy-Nine ’ , and suddenly , as happens on these occasions , the knockabout mood changed , people stopped laughing , tears stood in eyes , as Jilly 's harsh , grating flat voice lamented the year and deplored the future , as her white , beaky , angry face gazed fiercely at the audience , as the confined energy of months swelled up in self-pity around the room , orchestrated by Jilly 's incantation : |
| 14 | Walk starts at 2pm at the maypole in Coniston . |
| 15 | The first meeting is to be held on February 26 at 2pm at the Town Hall . |
| 16 | He rang off and stared gloomily at the phone . |
| 17 | Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake . |
| 18 | Masklin looked gloomily at the rain . |
| 19 | Bull O'Malley suppressed a sigh , and stared gloomily at the fire . |
| 20 | She watched him go back to the kitchen and when he had shut the living room door firmly , she sank down on the rug in front of the gas fire with her back propped against the armchair and sipped gloomily at the wine . |
| 21 | Watching him stare gloomily at the table , Lucy said impulsively , ‘ Perhaps I could help . |
| 22 | We stared gloomily at the screen . |
| 23 | This way no valuable ground is lost to windward at the end of the turn and it ‘ shuts the door ’ on any one trying to make a furtive inside rounding . |
| 24 | Or , even better at the beginning ! |
| 25 | If only the population could just manage , by random drift , to get itself over the knife-edge , it could coast down the slope to the Tit for Tat side , and everyone would do much better at the banker 's ( or ‘ nature 's ’ ) expense . |
| 26 | Former Sunderland star Marco Gabbiadini has settled better at the Baseball Ground than at Crystal Palace . |
| 27 | ‘ I was playing better at the end and if it had been a five set match I think I could have fought back . ’ |
| 28 | Banning unofficial action will put individual workers entirely at the mercy of unscrupulous employers who will be able to dismiss them selectively on the slightest pretext , without any right of appeal . ’ |
| 29 | To put the implementation entirely at the door of Mr Tomalin , who has since left Tokyo to take a key position in our head office , is nonsense . |
| 30 | The balance should then be forwarded direct to the hotel , though if contacted some hotels do not require full payment in advance — this is entirely at the hotel 's discretion . |