Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got down to work at once and even found another couple , both teachers , who wanted to ‘ settle up ’ in Church . |
| 2 | The committee became so unnerved at the thought that the club premises might be under threat that when I said I knew how to deal with these bounders , but it could only be as chairman , they swallowed it hook , line and sinker . |
| 3 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 4 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |
| 5 | Swam down to sniff at the trembling . |
| 6 | He bent down to stare at the floor . |
| 7 | After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human . |
| 8 | With a parting gift of prawns and fish from a friendly fisherman , we headed over to look at the islands of bum and Eigg on the way to Ardnamurchan . |
| 9 | I stopped momentarily to look at the old ‘ cenotaph ’ or what remained of it . |
| 10 | She held out her arms and tried desperately to grab at Jones 's reins , but three quarters of a ton of racehorse hit her head-on at nearly forty miles an hour and the three went down in a heap . |
| 11 | Paige found just looking at him a very heady experience . |
| 12 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 13 | But she came to the kitchen when summoned to help , and she tried not to grumble at the repetitive nature of the work and the talk . |
| 14 | Luce made a sweeping gesture with one arm and tried not to wince at the pain . |
| 15 | She tried not to smile at the wording , and then she handed it back . |
| 16 | He broke off , blushed and tried not to look at Jilly Jonathan . |
| 17 | Philip tried not to look at him . |
| 18 | Dot tried not to look at Gloria 's face . |
| 19 | I was terrified , I tried not to look at him , I tried pulling my skirt down over my knees . |
| 20 | I tried not to look at anything in between . |
| 21 | He tried not to look at the screens . |
| 22 | She tried not to look at the easy , mutual affection of Finn , Francie and the dumb woman . |
| 23 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 24 | She tried not to look at the glass on the pink marble top of the wash-stand , empty , a sticky red stain at the bottom . |
| 25 | I turned back to Lloyd and tried not to look at Beeby 's legs . |
| 26 | Ronni tried not to look at him and squeezed the water from her hair . |
| 27 | She tried not to look at him as he talked . |
| 28 | At first she tried not to stare at him , knowing how the feeling of someone looking over her own shoulder made her clumsy , but soon it became clear that he was no longer aware of her at all . |
| 29 | He tried not to stare at her . |
| 30 | Then his weight lifted and she opened her dazed eyes , confused , as he moved away to sit at the edge of the bed . |