Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level . |
| 2 | It should have calmed her , gazing down at the burbling river , should have helped her to think about the problem uppermost in her mind ; but it was impossible to concentrate , knowing that he was close by . |
| 3 | He paused only the once , gazing down at the burnt meat that had been his friend and comrade for so long . |
| 4 | The Spencer Tracy lookalike beamed down at the Anti-Rex . |
| 5 | In the classical theory of general relativity one can not predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity . |
| 6 | Eddie was staring at her with eyes as hard as granite but all she said was , ‘ You 'll have to go in at the front door . |
| 7 | No need for us all to go in at the deep end . ’ |
| 8 | They gazed down at the innocent football being kicked back and forth against the wall outside , the thwack of the ball booming in the street amongst the traffic noise . |
| 9 | Allowing herself a moment of pity , Theodora gazed down at the vulnerable sleeping figure . |
| 10 | The oriental gazed down at the broken body of his defeated enemy . |
| 11 | In an uncomfortable silence Nathaniel Sherman and the others gazed down at the dead buffalo cow . |
| 12 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 13 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 14 | ‘ The ambition is certainly not to go along at the existing size , growing by 5 per cent a year . |
| 15 | They reached Airman 's Grave and paused together beside its perimeter wall , gazing in at the poignant tribute to one victim of a long-ago conflict , though not as long-ago , it occurred to Derek , as the conflict which had recently extended its crabbed old hand to touch their lives . |
| 16 | The avenues explored in applying neural computing to these three applications and the results from these have been reported on at the regular monthly Club meetings . |
| 17 | ‘ Less aggro signing on at the Social Security . ’ |
| 18 | That tradition lives on at the Banzai Pipeline , not so much the Wembley Stadium of surfing as its Coliseum . |
| 19 | Witcher gaped down at the smoking hob in his chest . |
| 20 | Jonathan gaped down at the neat little hole in his chest . |
| 21 | Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ? |
| 22 | Outside two young men peered in at the lighted women with their bottles and Jonquil 's cans of Carlsberg . |
| 23 | She peered down at the dark water in the basin below . |
| 24 | ‘ Mummy will be cross , ’ she murmured , wrinkling her nose as she peered down at the long tear . |
| 25 | Then she paused and peered down at the writhing thread . |
| 26 | ‘ They 're going to come in at the far end . ’ |
| 27 | True to his word , Tom Warner had located an immense 8-wheeled transcontinental locomotive , not yet cooled down at the divisional changing point , assembled a crew of engineer and fireman , loaded the engine with coal and water , and attached the engine to the Divisional Superintendent 's own private railway coach . |
| 28 | Let's jump in at the deep end — literally . |
| 29 | The controls were voted in at the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ( CCMLR ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Mind you , they never actually say when , and you did rather get dropped in at the deep end . |