Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bull also continued the fight with greater subtlety through the Daily Telegraph : he wrote for the Telegraph regularly in 1917 , either directly as " our political correspondent " , or indirectly by feeding information on the Bill to the paper , and this helped to keep at least one part of the Unionist press briefed with the official party line . |
| 2 | In Britain , this began to happen at about the same time as the emergence of positivist criminology — though , again , this is not to suggest any simple causal relation , in either direction ( see Garland , 1985b ) . |
| 3 | There were so many mourners at the funeral that some had to stand at the back and listen to the service relayed by loudspeakers . |
| 4 | But none of that seemed to matter at all . |
| 5 | I said and you all used to look at him as if he was bloody king |
| 6 | This new assessment of his home marked an important casting off , a kind of liberation , and if in later years Ottery remained symbolically important to Coleridge , that was only because his recollections of the shaping years of childhood all seemed to gather at the town . |
| 7 | It all seemed to happen at once . |
| 8 | ‘ All seemed to happen at once . |
| 9 | All turned to stare at Sonny . |
| 10 | They all turned to look at her , but it was Harry 's reaction for which Madeleine was watching . |
| 11 | They all started to look at each other rather furtively . |
| 12 | The sequence of landing was planned to put the raiders ashore in a fighting formation , and although all went to plan at Stamsund , indiscipline among boats ' crews would on other occasions cause difficulties for commandos landed late or ahead of their supporting Troops . |
| 13 | Bach wrote all his in 3/4 , though they are by no means all meant to go at one tempo . |
| 14 | Top service brass , diplomats and the intelligence community all tended to look at the world in more interventionist terms than a decade earlier . |
| 15 | They almost all wanted to stay at the fabulous old Hotel Mamounia , a place of wonderful gardens and lakes that had achieved fame when Winston Churchill came to paint there in the fifties . |
| 16 | Many of the rather frowsy old biddies who made their living by singing Gay Nineties songs and cadging drinks from the customers , recognized Ella , and several came to sit at our table to have their pictures taken by the resident camera man . |
| 17 | They both turned to look at the child . |
| 18 | " Ah , excuse me , They both turned to look at the winding-stair door , where the small attendant was peeking round the side , most of its body hidden in the twisted darkness beyond . |
| 19 | They both began to speak at the same time , and Fen gestured to her to go first . |
| 20 | The leaders had their work cut out keeping the group together , and one or both had to remain at the back to motivate the slower ones — the most effective method seemed to be carrying their kit , though this tended to be a last resort . |