Example sentences of "[vb past] again at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She peered again at the water below and fought with the nausea and the dizziness and the fear . |
| 2 | He tried again at the corner and got a smooth rounded canter . |
| 3 | His spirits sank again at the prospect and although he went out to Ruislip where his former battalion now had its headquarters , and although he was received by Colonel Bumford , his spirits were at zero three days later when Charity spoke to him on the telephone . |
| 4 | His face clouded again at the thought . |
| 5 | Adomnan recalls in his biography of Columba , written a century after the saint 's death , that one day the monks became aware of a strange presence in one of their pastures ; this experience occurred again at the same time every evening . |
| 6 | He drew the sword out and prodded again at the wizard , who was rigid with terror and guilt . |
| 7 | What 's more , he had also learned that he must ignore the first playing of the tune , and wait 15 minutes until it played again at the end of the programme — the dog would look up quizzically at the sound of the familiar music but stay still , apparently too smart to respond to an obvious false alarm . |
| 8 | Perhaps the best one of all happened again at the good old reception desk at the BBC , but this time not to me . |
| 9 | Assisted by Southgate and two sleepy-eyed , half-dressed servants we hammered again at the door until it buckled , creaking and groaning , before snapping back , breaking the lock . |
| 10 | We arrived again at the street where we had heard the news of the assassination attempt . |
| 11 | If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive , it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine , and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings , far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission . |
| 12 | We marvelled again at the scenery of West Spitsbergen , its sharply tipped mountains of dark rock , the glacier-filled valleys between and the tiny strips of life-giving vegetation which made it possible for some birds and animals to exist . |
| 13 | I tilted the bottle against my finger and sniffed again at the clear residue , wondering what to do , then ( nothing ventured , nothing gained ) , rubbed my wet finger round my gums . |
| 14 | A little later , she glanced again at the book and said : ‘ A side of life I know nothing about . |
| 15 | He glanced again at the wallet . |
| 16 | Peskova bowed , then glanced again at the albino . |
| 17 | Every few minutes she glanced again at the postcard . |
| 18 | Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool . |
| 19 | As the hospital grew bigger and nearer , she glanced again at the little boy and saw with horror that he was tiny . |
| 20 | In the living room she sat by the fire and glanced again at the envelope . |
| 21 | So it was that about half an hour later the telephone rang again at the vicarage . |
| 22 | As she looked again at the faces of her family she was ready to burst into tears and almost did so but Erika , moving lightly into the kitchen , said : ‘ Fräulein Silber thinks that I should stay with her next week . ’ |
| 23 | Karl looked across the street to where , among the cargo boats , the French and British Embassies hung out their flags , then looked again at the battleship . |
| 24 | They re-climbed the steps to the granite flags and there Karl turned and looked again at the statue , his face still sunken and sour . |
| 25 | He looked again at the beautifully unspoiled Buckinghamshire countryside . |
| 26 | He looked again at the menu and chose a Dom Perignon . |
| 27 | She looked again at the tiny hut . |
| 28 | She looked again at the bottle , standing like a soldier on the wooden bench . |
| 29 | He looked again at the newspaper account of the adjourned inquest that his father had saved for him . |
| 30 | Vi looked again at the letter half-hidden behind the sepia vase on the kitchen mantel and wondered bitterly whose fault it had been . |