Example sentences of "[vb past] at every [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He arranged parties and expeditions for inspecting churches and old buildings both in London and in the country ; he became one of the public advocates of the Gothic style for modern buildings ; he caught at every opportunity of designing a lodge or a farmhouse or any other building . |
| 2 | The plans showed over forty rooms and vestibules on four elevations , with two staircases , two lifts that stopped at every floor , hot and cold running water in all five bathrooms , water closets that flushed , electric light , a cellar , a garage and a garden . |
| 3 | Exactly a week later I suddenly went to Oxford by the most impossible train which stopped at every station . |
| 4 | The train was a slow one that stopped at every station and I was eventually discovered , clutching my red handbag and Arthur , in Carlisle where the train terminated . |
| 5 | And they normally used the ‘ mixed ’ trains , which , since they stopped at every station and carried all manner of freight as well as third- and fourth-class carriages , were the ones which were most likely to be inordinately late . |
| 6 | Getting more and more desperate , Perdita stopped at every house and scoured every field . |
| 7 | They happened at every siege ; they have left rich and often still untouched pickings for the determined detectorist . |
| 8 | He was their leader , a soldier , but dressed like a popinjay in multi-coloured hose , a billowing tabard of blue and silver jagged at the edge , a lace-ruffed collar , lambskin gloves and high-heeled Spanish riding boots festooned with bells which tinkled at every step he took . |
| 9 | Cameron passed it by , the man could stew in his choler for a while , and when the dark came on and his servants and womenfolk grued at every owl-call or salmon-splash from the river , his defiance would burn lower and he would give his name . |
| 10 | I grabbed at every invitation , no matter how uninteresting , that would occupy my evenings , and if I had one free I would fill it myself by visiting friends or , in the last resort , going to a movie alone . |
| 11 | It 's gone into us , and we 've done it 's here that 's looked at it properly , and walked through the trees and even looked at every marking in the trees that were gon na come down . |
| 12 | She always looked at every farthing twice before parting with it . |
| 13 | She observed him without shame as he looked at every part of her . |
| 14 | Well I 'm certain that if you looked at every post in the City we could certainly save one or two , I do n't think anyone would deny that , but the sort of cases that Queenie 's just been talking about , I think she 's talking absolute nonsense . |
| 15 | The children cried at every bang . |
| 16 | ‘ Better than one story I know , about a baby who cried at every meal . |
| 17 | And er anyway we eventually er ah but er the questions used to asked at every meeting , when are we going to come out and er so much so that er they made the secretary who was a J P and a Tory write to the T U C and er say that we prepared to come out when ever they ask us . |
| 18 | Her own position , forcefully argued at every turn , is that masculinity is ‘ a heterogeneous set of ideas , constructed around assumptions of social power , which are lived out and reinforced , or perhaps denied and challenged , in multiple and diverse ways within a whole social system in which relations of authority , work , and domestic life are organised , in the main , along hierarchical gender lines ( p. 288 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Sociability sells , ’ the head of the International Models office in Milan said at every opportunity . |
| 20 | He lurched at every step and emitted squeaks of either joy or horror — it was impossible to tell — when the pony trotted a couple of paces to catch up with its companions . |
| 21 | Open balustraded verandas intruded at every level , the frontage being stepped back to incorporate them . |
| 22 | He was the sort of guy who jumped at every opportunity to make you look small . ’ |
| 23 | After a couple of days in his new home Skipper was much more relaxed ; he no longer jumped at every sound and soon learned that when I arrived on the yard in the morning , it meant food . |