Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even by 1926 party contacts between the capital and Smolensk were to remain mostly at the written rather than at the human level . |
| 2 | Histamine given locally at the subcutaneous implantation site of the tumour ( 1 mg/kg/day ) increased the growth of MKN45G xenografts in nude mice . |
| 3 | The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall . |
| 4 | Howard almost laughs aloud at the young man 's distaste for the prospect . |
| 5 | He stood at the urinal and peed fiercely at the white ceramic wall , streaked with rusty tear-stains from the corroding pipes . |
| 6 | Twenty years earlier , R. A. Butler had shared the same fate , recalling the ‘ blood curdling demands ’ made annually at the Conservative Party Conference for the restoration of corporal punishment which had ‘ quite clouded ’ his time as Chairman of the Party . |
| 7 | Wage regulation applied only at the upper limit . |
| 8 | ‘ Our Association was formed in November 1981 when a group of concerned people got together at a public meeting in Llandrindod Wells . |
| 9 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 10 | IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC got together at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge'93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 11 | None of that small band of men who sat round smoking and drinking their beer or whisky could have had any idea , as they heard Jack vigorously defending the doctrine of hell in nine pages , that the publication of these religious speculations , pieced together at a busy time between giving lectures and examining , was to change his destiny forever . |
| 12 | ‘ Yeah , we 'll take you up on that , Dave , ’ Graham said then suddenly looked despairingly at the sealed container . |
| 13 | The Liberal Democrat vote sagged badly at the general election and they 'll be pleased still to hold seven council wards after this vote . |
| 14 | This course is designed to produce graduates conversant with the techniques of physics and chemistry and armed with the necessary mathematical skill to work effectively at the chemical/physical interface . |
| 15 | She leapt to her feet mopping furiously at the small wet patch on her skirt . |
| 16 | The air did n't feel sharply cold enough for snow , and Clare hoped it would n't rain ; she peered upward at the dull , grey sky . |
| 17 | She recalled that as a young girl she 'd often sucked slowly at a big lollipop to see how long she could make it last . |
| 18 | He was educated locally at the National School and later at Wesley College , Sheffield , before becoming apprenticed to a wool spinner , John Brigg . |
| 19 | And Anders , showing off his strength by tearing only at the thick material of Nina 's suit . |
| 20 | If one looks only at the outer signs , one may see a cantankerous , dotty old person , but in the soul something very different may be perceived . |
| 21 | One might think that this unpredictability would n't matter too much if it occurred only at the big bang ; after all , that was ten or twenty billion years ago . |
| 22 | Everyone dined together at a plain wooden table more suited to the kitchen or servants ' quarters than the guests ' dining room , and the fare was similarly lacking in charm . |
| 23 | We were appearing together at a literary lunch in Cleethorpes — he was promoting the latest edition of his diaries — and someone was playing the organ whilst we were eating . |
| 24 | In principle , this made profitable the speculative holding of stocks of goods whose price rose only at the average rate . |
| 25 | The banquet began with the usual mumbo-jumbo , except the cardinal dined alone at the high table under a rich cloth of state , his fat body almost hidden by platters of heaped delicacies , whilst all around him stood serving men to refill his goblet , replenish napkins or offer a fresh knife . |
| 26 | His lips sucked eagerly at the golden liquid . |
| 27 | And she saw old Billy , his toothless gums mumbling away at the mashed-up food she spooned into his mouth . |
| 28 | The Himalayas , whose rise began maybe 50 million years ago , are still climbing heavenwards at an average rate of seven millimetres per year , double the speed of their advance ten million years ago , though such rates are by no means constant . |
| 29 | Across the oceans , Sotheby 's continues to plug away at the Japanese market with its Print sale in Tokyo , now bolstered by a few nihonga ( Japanese-style ) paintings . |
| 30 | THE recovery in the housing market has come just at the right time for CALA , the Scottish house-builder , which saw interim losses nearly double to £2.85 million . |