Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gazed down at the now peaceful face of the priest . |
| 2 | Years of irresponsible budgets have obliged America 's fiscal policy to work perversely at a particularly awkward moment . |
| 3 | Business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace , lunches were longer and boozier and I was far , far happier . |
| 4 | The whole enterprise is carried through with panache and — apart from the fact that it clocks in at a rather miserly total of only 52 minutes — the disc can be thoroughly recommended to anyone who wants a well-chosen selection of G&S numbers . |
| 5 | Questioned , Swayne stated that the animal had been let out at approximately 9.30 on Saturday evening and was crying to be let in at a little before midnight . |
| 6 | We were climbing away at a very gentle angle and I could not understand why I could not move the controls . |
| 7 | But he could not have come back at a more opportune time as far as Selkirk are concerned . |
| 8 | Try to find out at the very least what position the interviewer holds with the company and whether you will be working directly with him or her . |
| 9 | However , our descriptive task will be more difficult , as it involves dealing with greater complexity of variation than would be the case in more focused communities , and it has to be carried out at a very fine-grained level . |
| 10 | In other words , will workers in the future be increasingly herded together in large factories or offices belonging to even larger corporations or will there be a shift towards work being carried out at a more local level within small groups , perhaps operating as independent companies , partnerships , or co-operatives ? |
| 11 | The analogy is with instinctive mystery — an arcane communing which erupts suddenly at a mutually understood signal , like an entire species of bird becoming aware that it is time to mate . |
| 12 | Since the infra-red reflectance is strongly linked to the presence of water it was thought possible that unfiltered readings might not show the same decline — since to the eye at least the area does not decline until the onset of withering , which occurs only at a much later stage . |
| 13 | ‘ Anything — just as long as it contains a strong dose of alcohol ! ’ he told her crisply , continuing to stand with his back to her , frowning down at the irritatingly silent machine . |
| 14 | On her next outing Dawn Run came down at the very first fence at Liverpool , giving Jonjo O'Neill a terrible fall . |
| 15 | We put in at a very tiny stream that would lead to the main waterway . |
| 16 | Another experiment carried out by Forster and Olbrei ( 1974 : Experiment 5 ) used a rapid serial visual presentation ( RSVP ) in which each word of a sentence is presented successively at an extremely rapid rate ( 16 words/second ) . |
| 17 | Much of the work in the first two years of school will concentrate on looking backwards at the relatively recent past ( life 50 – 80 years ago ) , using oral history , photographs , objects , and looking at the locality , the family , home and school . |
| 18 | It means that vital decisions have to be made quickly at an extremely difficult time for the mother , decisions which may have to be made from an ill-informed base . |
| 19 | All three men were looking up at a newly stained wallaba beam which supported the terrace room . |
| 20 | He smiled as the life went out in him , looking up at the already transparent Monster . |
| 21 | It always came up at the very worst of times . |
| 22 | The new breed of shareholders has yet to show its skills of actually trading shares for long term appreciation and has tended to sell out at the most lucrative time . |
| 23 | I 'm looking out at the moodily lit bathroom and wondering what I would do if I suddenly saw William appear out there , flight bags in hand , a Surprise , honey , I 'm home ! look on his face . |
| 24 | They mounted a bloody attack throughout that month and the next , directed mainly at the ironically aptly named hill of Mort Homme — the dead man — on the river 's left bank , and at the Côte du Poivre . |
| 25 | Although automatic and semi-automatic high-bay warehousing systems are being built abroad at an ever increasing rate — some 2,000 have been constructed in Japan in the last fifteen years — the rate of development in the United Kingdom may only be described as slow . |
| 26 | Afterwards he went by way of St Basil 's Terrace , looking as Sophia had done earlier at the newly done up houses with their prettily painted front doors and rather self-conscious window-boxes and bay trees in tubs , when a woman 's voice called out behind him , ‘ Good evening vicar — been getting fish for pussy ? ’ |
| 27 | I think their suggestion was that they had to go via Norwood Gardens because they then turned right at the in and went up into the middle of and it was to get them on to that line that they had to go through . |
| 28 | There 's a lot going on at a very fast speed . |
| 29 | Donna moved close to it , peering in at the finely sculpted features , momentarily distracted by the sheer artistry of the effigy . |
| 30 | The English do not seem to have taken this too seriously ; the fyrd , or coastal militia , was disbanded and the fleet paid off at the most crucial time in late summer , only to be hastily recalled when Harold Hardrada , the Norwegian king , invaded the north . |