Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 2 | We are looking forward to a visit from prominent physiotherapist Vivian Grisogono , who , with her vast and expert knowledge of treating sports injuries , has much to impart about the way we enthusiastically drive our bodies on to perform at a pace that often proves harmful . |
| 3 | The charges included his acceptance of a commission following the completion of SOMISA 's purchase , at well above market prices , of new offices which were then lavishly decorated at a time when the state company 's workforce was being dramatically reduced in preparation for its privatization in 1992 [ see p. 38527 ] . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , however , the book 's value as a work of reference is somewhat undermined by errors , some apparently hinting at a lack of background knowledge , while other statements are contradicted by the sources cited : e.g. John Graham , Lord Kilpont becomes John Stewart , Lord Kinpont — a gentleman otherwise unknown to history ; Balcarre 's and Barclay 's regiments of horse are confused ; Sir James Scott of Rossie becomes Sir James Scott of Rosyth ; and variant spellings of proper names abound . |
| 5 | Certificates were awarded to the 63 girls who all passed at a variety of levels in the recent exams . |
| 6 | The Germans naturally excelled at a style developed by themselves ; most commonly this was a simplification of Gothic features . |
| 7 | All the nineteenth-century conventions of comedy pointed to the need for universality and in any case Chaplin 's own personal inclinations must have pulled him back from being sectionally committed at a time of class warfare . |
| 8 | Anyone who doubts this need only glance at a profile of Peter Phillips , director of The Tallis Scholars , published in The New Yorker : |
| 9 | The man was in the act of turning a page , and , in so doing , he momentarily exposed its front cover , which Harry had , till now , only seen at a distance . |
| 10 | Tt and we 're obviously looking at a process of land reform which has , has undergone a number of changes and I think we , we 've begun to see some of the influences on those changes and particularly over the , the last week or so the this has . |
| 11 | Thereafter , saline was constantly infused at a rate of 0.1 ml/min through the gall bladder catheter with an ASID Bonz PP infusion pump ( Germany ) . |
| 12 | Our amateurs were simply not dedicated enough to win at a world level . |
| 13 | But then of course Paula was so lovely she had only to look at a boy to have him crazy about her , Sally thought wretchedly . |
| 14 | I mean I suppose there is in all social work in a sense , that if you go in to look at a family and , and you 're trying to assess you know whether the children should be taken into care , well you 're exercising a a sort of statutory erm er sort of responsibility , and as far as the clients are concerned , er if you , like that can sort of get in the way of er er a more human sort of relationship if you see what I mean , because |
| 15 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
| 16 | I 'll stay an hour , you look as if you can only move at a crawl . ’ |
| 17 | He followed her eyes but found she was only staring at a door . |
| 18 | I would n't be much use at a party . ’ |
| 19 | In addition , we can be aware that we are in one place , perhaps seated at a desk , and at the same time imagine something else . |
| 20 | Even if we were to include the value attributed to armaments in PP4 we would only arrive at a total of 21,019 . |
| 21 | However , the parties involved were prepared to have their heads hit together to arrive at a solution . |
| 22 | I thought she was going to hit me : her hand which was already formed in a fist , went up — but she used it only to swipe at a cat scuttling from under a bush towards the door . |
| 23 | It is a great way to become strongly , personally involved at a reserve . |
| 24 | Of the motifs , the presence of a bird ( apparently pecking at a sprig ) is significant , for it does not occur in any other saltire mosaic in the region . |
| 25 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 26 | There was even a smudgy photograph , apparently taken at a party , which showed them together over the canapes . |
| 27 | One Sunday , he went hunting with his fierce black mastiffs , stopping only to swig at a flask of strong drink . |
| 28 | The whole strategy , apparently conceived at a leader 's policy committee meeting the previous Sunday , as a way of marking Charter 88 's day of constitutional action , was bungled . |
| 29 | A laser ( without injected signal ) necessarily operates at a frequency such that the total mistuning ( 8 plus any phase shift due to the medium ) is equal to zero ( modulo 2n ) . |
| 30 | Occasionally he sneaked off to one side and had a good long suck at a silver flask . |