Example sentences of "[noun] did [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl 's eyes did not at first stray in my direction so I was able in safety to look at her , to examine her , for quite some time . |
| 2 | It was the time of Entertaining Mr Sloane , a play Ken did n't at first see himself . |
| 3 | Here he went astray , for Tilda did not at all like being so small . |
| 4 | There seemed the suspicion of an implied threat here that Mr Crumwallis did not at all like . |
| 5 | Louis did not at all resemble Dahl 's amiable dream dispenser as Preston remembered him from the twins ' illustrated paperback . |
| 6 | The advent of the spinning jenny did not at first destroy home employment in spinning . |
| 7 | ) At school , so that I would have time to practise two hours a day , by the age of 15 , I had been allowed to drop Latin ( Greek did not at any point arise ) and Maths . |
| 8 | Younger sons did not at this time seek to maintain their gentility by going into the church or the army or by living off an annuity that allowed them to pass their time in respectable ease . |
| 9 | The headquarters ' 38-set ( see Appendix 5 ) could not contact Ryder on the MGB and Newman did not at first realise how few men were ashore . |
| 10 | Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ . |
| 11 | If the outside world did not at first grasp its significance , the Israeli leadership positively refused to do so . |
| 12 | When , in March , she realised her period was overdue , Liza did not at first worry . |
| 13 | Lost in thought , Eochaid did not at first hear the shouting outside , or see Thorfinn thrusting his way through the crowd to the door until he had almost gone . |
| 14 | The more successful the shops became , the more the branch managers reported back on those lines which sold well , thereby wielding a power which Laura did not at first wish to accept . |
| 15 | Even naked , Leo did n't at all seem at a disadvantage , and , as she watched the two men , she finally and forever dispelled any lingering feeling she might have had for Ryan . |