Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two species of butterfly fish have been observed to swim slowly backwards at the first hint of trouble , making their false eyes seem even more real . |
| 2 | Laura gasped breathlessly as he raised his dark head , gazing fondly up at the man she loved so much . |
| 3 | As Ross watched her gazing fondly down at the babies , whose heads were already covered with dark hair , and — so Laura had firmly informed him — were carbon copies of their father , he knew that he was an incredibly lucky man . |
| 4 | Thomas was motor-crazy , she thought , gazing fondly down at the small dungareed figure . |
| 5 | The tram schoogled away again , and Maggie gazed eagerly out at the passing scene . |
| 6 | ‘ You see — we did n't wake the children , after all , ’ Ross drawled , his eyes glinting with amusement as he gazed warmly down at the soft figure in his arms . |
| 7 | And as I say , in during the war years our rations , we were all treated so fairly at the Co-op I believe you know , we were really treated fairly . |
| 8 | It 's a shame , happening right here at the fête and all . |
| 9 | Tristan made a noncommittal gesture and his brother sank wearily down at the table . |
| 10 | Willie hung on to Tom 's left trouser leg and peered gingerly round at the mare as they walked past it . |
| 11 | A good result and a very necessary one because I think that helps you to pull away slightly at the top of the table ; before this match , Egham were in third place . |
| 12 | Moods may change easily from laughter to sadness ; they cry easily even at the thought of pain . |
| 13 | When one looks more closely at the individual creation myths one recognizes that the work will involve more than simple description of the myths themselves ; it will be necessary to go into the societies from which they sprang in at least sufficient detail for the myths to be appreciated in context . |
| 14 | His study Sally ( the lady sits at a table and looks straight ahead at the viewer ) possesses painterly values of real distinction . |
| 15 | Strangely , another sample of water divided in two and analysed both independently at the Glasgow Institute of Biochemistry and at the Water Board 's Dumfries laboratory showed two very different results . |
| 16 | Knees should be flexed comfortably , the racquet pointing towards your opponent , weight on the balls of the feet , and the body bent slightly forwards at the waist . |
| 17 | But when she brushed her hair out of her face and peered cautiously over at the bench Guy lay in the same position , completely unmoving . |
| 18 | ‘ You disappoint me , ’ he said under his breath , and Rachel 's heart beat even faster at the darkness in his voice . |
| 19 | A mysterious abdominal pain struck , presenting Mota breathing properly , and the queen of marathon running was seen by millions walking sadly away at the 27K stage , leaving the event open for Panfil . |
| 20 | Sociolinguistics is most successful in explaining sex differences when it looks very carefully at the conditions of particular communities ' lives and at what the people themselves consider the most important influences on their behaviour . |
| 21 | No study looks systematically either at the role of girls vis-à-vis masculine delinquency , or at the possible importance of girls ' groups in female deviancy . |
| 22 | The City and the County Councils have looked very seriously at the erm traffic study that the Oxford Preservation Trust commissioned , and they are working on it and working on ways of implementing it within the City centre . |
| 23 | It 's starts very quietly at the stage , there 's very little you know |
| 24 | It , it is n't being approached very vigorously at the moment , er in a general sense because of two things . |
| 25 | " Get outside this , " she said , slamming the tin mug of coffee in front of him , and sawing away energetically at the loaf . |
| 26 | And it 's Tommy who 's scored , the young Irishman has done so well at the heart of the defence for Shrewsbury , has got into the opposition penalty area and what about this for a score line ? |
| 27 | Did John Doe do much up at the Tilberthwaite Mines ? |
| 28 | If only the population could just manage , by random drift , to get itself over the knife-edge , it could coast down the slope to the Tit for Tat side , and everyone would do much better at the banker 's ( or ‘ nature 's ’ ) expense . |
| 29 | I dreamt last night that J.R.T. said " You need not worry ; you will be accepted all right at the Academy of Arts . " |
| 30 | That 's why I studied so hard at the Staff College . |