Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two witches suddenly looked at each other in horror . |
| 2 | Nigel never looked at any building before examining the head , and I had learnt never to become too enthused about interiors until this had been done . |
| 3 | For hours , civilians of both faiths dutifully queued at these terrible checkpoints at each end of the Ring on the innocent assumption that the gunmen there merely wished to look at their identity papers . |
| 4 | It would be tedious to list the types and colours of stone , ceramic etc. used at each site in Britain ; if any picture at all emerges it is that mosaicists made good with what was easily obtained , and that the types of stone used for various shades of colour are predictable and limited in number . |
| 5 | Do you think that in all schools the head always looked at all the reports ? |
| 6 | But many people only laughed at these stories . |
| 7 | Base rates then remained at this level for a year , before starting to fall in October 1990 , when Britain joined the ERM . |
| 8 | It seemed to Carolyn ( perhaps her memory exaggerated ) that her father never spoke at all . |
| 9 | It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre . |
| 10 | The night before the wedding the girls hardly slept at all and they did not chatter to one another as they usually did until they found sleep . |
| 11 | During the five days between that dreadful night and the day of the funeral , Joe and Ellen Jebeau never looked at each other , nor did a word pass between them . |
| 12 | Lisa almost laughed at that . |
| 13 | The mammals also existed at this time , starting a little later in the mid-Triassic , but in very insignificant numbers and they were tiny until after the death of the dinosaurs , after which they had more fully evolved from the pelycosaurs and therapsids . |
| 14 | This project almost died at that point , as I should not imagine that my skills were good enough to meet the precision requirements and the time factor seemed unacceptable . |
| 15 | Both young men then glanced at each other , clamming up in some embarrassment as they recalled that the fortune they were at this moment vying for had been lost by Benedict Beckenham , for the story of the will was naturally common knowledge among his intimates . |
| 16 | The two men never looked at each other , their conversation a secret between them . |
| 17 | This time , the couple still shouted at each other , but were open and honest about how they felt . |
| 18 | Oil related activity in the North Sea also increased at this time , and helicopter flights to offshore sites reached record numbers in 1978 . |
| 19 | During the first session Susie barely spoke at all . |
| 20 | Public-sector land owners were often under an obligation to obtain the best price possible , which was unlikely to happen in times of such severely-restrained demand and when an urban-land market hardly existed at all . |
| 21 | Lizzie and Henry again looked at each other as they followed her into the room , and sat on the couch . |
| 22 | Erm Eric in , in Manchester from where he comes is extremely well known obviously within the G M B but his record he 's one of the individuals in the trade union movement that I think are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days I know that many of us when we first started in the movement were very easily able , and , and very relaxed about combining trade union and political activities together but of course as time goes on and , you do tend to become more involved in the one and the other , because of course it 's all time-consuming but I can honestly say that in Eric 's case he 's never deviated one iota from his commitment both to the trade union , this union in particular , and to the Party never deviated at all . |
| 23 | The most common request is that everything should be set back the way it was at time X and it should appear as though the work carried out on package Y never happened at all ! |