Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet efforts to minimize the impact of his resignation internationally included a Congress resolution passed overwhelmingly at the end of the debate affirming the continuity of foreign policy . |
| 2 | This is of flannel : the round part is plaited up to form the front , and a quilling of the bordering put on , a band of the same laid on at the back , and strings . ’ |
| 3 | The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years . |
| 4 | They checked right at the start of the inquiry . |
| 5 | Wriggling in our seats we gazed dumbly at the teacher , as dogs will whose owner is eating a slice of cake ( Miss ! |
| 6 | Settling himself in one of the big , shabby armchairs , Tug gazed suspiciously at the television screen and waited for a picture to appear . |
| 7 | The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall . |
| 8 | He went back , took a hoe from inside the door of his house and stabbed furiously at the cabbage patch , trying to rearrange the furrows in neat order . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
| 10 | Next morning Lucy found herself seated alone at the corner table , and when Jean brought her breakfast she learnt that Silas and Matt had left earlier to help the farm manager move cattle into different fields . |
| 11 | The room was low , and precious little of the falling day crept in at the one small , grimy window . |
| 12 | Her fingernail stabbed swiftly at the Harlequin . |
| 13 | No-one had said whose the other was , but from the tone of their glances Elizabeth guessed he was her husband 's — she glowed inside at the word . |
| 14 | The distinctive aroma of chocolate and liqueurs will entice you to view the delectable selection of hand made quality chocolates and fudge made daily at the village confectionery . |
| 15 | If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem . |
| 16 | These leaves are beautifully preserved in a flat-bedded and very highly fissile shale , laid down at the bottom of a fresh water lake . |
| 17 | The Spencer Tracy lookalike beamed down at the Anti-Rex . |
| 18 | However some water got in at the front . |
| 19 | He stood at the urinal and peed fiercely at the white ceramic wall , streaked with rusty tear-stains from the corroding pipes . |
| 20 | Just er we lived down at the bottom of the village there . |
| 21 | Detective Chief Inspector John McLeish gazed doubtfully at the plate before him . |
| 22 | Twenty years earlier , R. A. Butler had shared the same fate , recalling the ‘ blood curdling demands ’ made annually at the Conservative Party Conference for the restoration of corporal punishment which had ‘ quite clouded ’ his time as Chairman of the Party . |
| 23 | Something similar must have happened to Middleton 's crew because we met together at the station and took the train on the last lap to Cambridge . |
| 24 | Wage regulation applied only at the upper limit . |
| 25 | Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse . |
| 26 | IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC got together at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge'93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 27 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 28 | Friends and colleagues past and present got together at the Brunswick Arms in Stamford Street to give him a big send off . |
| 29 | Brother Cadfael was just emerging from the door of the infirmary in mid-morning , after replenishing Brother Edmund 's stores in the medicine cupboard , when they rode in at the gatehouse before his eyes . |
| 30 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |