Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , it promised to look again at the case of Canford Heath in Dorset , where a recent court judgement upheld the decision by Poole Borough Council to build houses on the heath in the face of vociferous opposition from conservation groups , led by the World Wide Fund for Nature [ see ED no . |
| 2 | It was too cold to stand and stare , and the wind kept buffeting us dangerously each time we tried to gaze across at the Ocean . |
| 3 | I learnt to sit formally at table and to eat three inedible courses of stodge with an incomprehensible array of surplus cutlery ; to whisper when I spoke as I was considered ‘ too loud ’ ; and to stop gesturing with my hands or to touch in conversation , as people inevitably shrank away from me . |
| 4 | A forest of scarlet , lim-wood pillars supported the roof , and the five-clawed golden dragons entwined around the length of each of them seemed to snarl fiercely at their reflections in the floor of polished ceramic tiles . |
| 5 | As they passed Guido and Ronni 's table , just for an instant Guido turned and seemed to smile directly at the girl . |
| 6 | She lifted her head as she did this , and seemed to look straight at him . |
| 7 | He seemed to look across at me . |
| 8 | England U-21 16pts Scotland U-21 19 SCOTLAND , better behind the scrum and with the country 's top points-scorer , deserved to win yesterday at McCracken Park , Newcastle . |
| 9 | He seemed to do better at Arse and had a good season when we won the league . |
| 10 | It always seemed to rain more at night . |
| 11 | Mrs Butler came to live here at Fewcott House after a month 's stay in hospital . |
| 12 | Saturday was the one day on which he seemed to arrive early at the Herald office , but she doubted whether he would have got there yet . |
| 13 | After commencing retraining , the ex POWs , like most soldiers on a home posting , endeavoured to get home at weekends . |
| 14 | No one else seemed to think so at the time . |
| 15 | His daughters , Eliza and Margaret , came to gaze dutifully at their stricken father . |
| 16 | Henry Mayhew described how the costers preferred tasty cable-cord trousers , ‘ made to fit tightly at the knee and swell gradually until they reached the boot , which they nearly cover ’ . |
| 17 | Nearly half the women questioned in the General Household Survey , published by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys , who drank between eight and 14 units a week claimed to drink hardly at all . |
| 18 | When he 'd gone the Annamese woman turned to stare apprehensively at her husband . |
| 19 | Then he turned to smile grimly at Tallis , adding quietly but audibly , ‘ And I do n't want that little killer anywhere in slingshot range . |
| 20 | She turned to smile benevolently at the scurrying passengers behind her . |
| 21 | When he turned to look intently at Jean Powers she felt a twinge of jealousy ; his arm , brushing momentarily against hers , made her tingle all over . |
| 22 | He turned to look straight at her . |
| 23 | She thought she saw a movement and turned to look again at a stone figure lying on a tomb . |
| 24 | Delaney turned to look directly at her . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | At the door his father turned to wink familiarly at Madeleine . |
| 27 | But if he entered diplomacy at all he expected to do so at or near the top . |
| 28 | The house lights went down and the small posse of hack musicians who slouched in the orchestra pit began to saw indifferently at their instruments . |
| 29 | Professional advice was important to the MPs fighting the Representation of the People Bill and National Union committees began to meet again at every level to discuss the Bill 's consequences for the party . |
| 30 | So , just before his seventeenth birthday , a thin , gangly boy , but ( as Lionel Luyt remarked ) completely unselfconscious , with a nose still red from his operation , John Cranko began to work full-time at ballet . |