Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm delighted that you 've been able to come along at such short notice . |
| 2 | God looks down at this cooperative effort of man trying to make himself god-like , and sees it as the beginning of worse rebellion against him . |
| 3 | Having been thwarted in his aims , was he going to swoop down at some unsuspected moment and engage her in another haranguing match ? |
| 4 | His legs will probably fall off at some stupid rave if he 's not careful he 'll be dancing so much cos he 's on twenty thousand and his bloody legs 'll fall off . |
| 5 | The present looks back at some great figure of an earlier century and wonders , Was he on our side ? |
| 6 | If dew-claws prove troublesome in other dogs , you can have them removed by your vet , although this is more of a major operation when carried out at this late stage than in early puppyhood . |
| 7 | One of the first things we do , after settling in — we show up at this little garage or car cemetery a few blocks south . |
| 8 | They way he just took my hair in one hand , while we were standing looking up at that God-awful window in the great hall , and turned my head to him , and pulled me close ; tongue down my throat before I knew what was happening , and there was something adolescent and desperate beneath all that working-class directness , but Jesus , I felt wanted … |
| 9 | As I sat looking up at this magnificent bird , especially on a fine day , I used to feel a terrific urge to see a bird of prey flying to a lure , which I 'd read about in my falconry books . |
| 10 | Looking back at these different sets of theories ( outlined in sections 5.3.2 , 5.3.3 and 5.3.4 ) , consider how each of them might explain the restructuring of local government ( discussed in Chapter 4 and referred to at the start of section 5.3 ) which took place in the 1980s ? |
| 11 | There was n't a single man who was n't there all spruced up and well turned out at this awkward hour . |
| 12 | Instantly , as if it were a bad oyster , Agnes spat my dick out of her mouth and started shrieking back at this loathed adversary of hers — Agnes 's language , it was unimaginable : even I was grossed out by it . |
| 13 | The IRA claimed responsibility for the station attacks , blaming the Victoria casualties on " the cynical decision … not to evacuate railway stations " after a caller had warned 45 minutes earlier that bombs were to go off at all mainline stations . |
| 14 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 15 | Only half of the counter had opened up at this early hour and there were no more than half a dozen people in the place , most of them in uniform . |
| 16 | With eight issues under our belt , we today look back at some dumb mistakes . |
| 17 | As I look around at this beautiful countryside I 'm , my mind drifts back about forty years . |
| 18 | candidate and plan to go back at some uncertain time in the future . |
| 19 | Strange that David should be coming along at that very moment that she 'd emerged on to the main road . |
| 20 | Mr Browning coming in at that very moment ran to his wife 's side and all but hauled her out of the bed in order to get her upright — in a moment , the convulsion was over and she sank back quite exhausted and drained . |
| 21 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 22 | For a moment the two gentlemen stared at him in perplexity , as he shook his head , bubbling over at some private joke , until he caught the puzzlement on both faces . |
| 23 | Mr E , however , countered each example with either ‘ it wo n't work with Dave ’ or ‘ I 've tried all this ’ , and switched off at any good idea offered , unable to listen , making himself , like Dave , the only one in the group so different and obstructive . |
| 24 | And all I could do at this terrible invasion was to rise and stand mutely , with my hands by my sides , staring up at this tremendous being — whom I now saw clearly for the first time . |
| 25 | Cardiff froze in his tracks , and now the others were right beside him ; all staring back at this impossible sight . |
| 26 | Secretaries hit out at that bad office equipment |
| 27 | Dr Hendron also hit out at some unionist politicians who , he claimed , condemned loyalist violence ‘ with a tongue in their cheek ’ . |
| 28 | I stared down at those careless , drunken scrawls ; felt the immediacy of the man ; and the terrible but necessary alienation of genius from ordinariness . |
| 29 | As she looked down at this small collection of his personal belongings , she realized that she had never thought of him as having any reality beyond the few hours they had spent together at the cottage . |
| 30 | Parties of twenty or thirty of them were liable to turn up at any Political gathering of which they disapproved , and their chant of " Left-is-right " , added to their readiness to fight anyone who tried to restore order , broke up meeting after meeting . |