Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at each [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 's taking solids , she wo n't want much at each meal . |
| 2 | To detect any contamination of samples before breaking the code , negative controls of sterile water were included with the samples in a ratio of one negative control per three samples and treated identically at each stage . |
| 3 | A few checks will soon show which tags ( if any ) connect together at each position of the switch . |
| 4 | So I gave myself just half an hour to get to the theatre and prepare for curtain up — and phoned home at each interval . |
| 5 | Chuck peered intently at each girl they passed , but without exception they avoided his gaze . |
| 6 | At these moments he looks closely at each inch of her face , like a valuer frowningly examining some precious object . |
| 7 | Pick an open , clear piece of water and close your eyes for small intervals which you gradually make longer at each attempt . |
| 8 | In an hour they were all ready and stood in the parlour looking humorously at each other in their best shirts of white linen and clean breeches . |
| 9 | You can SCAN , which involves just looking quickly at each page , to pick out anything which you recognise as being relevant to you , and which you can then read in detail ( scanning involves looking for keywords ) . |
| 10 | It was only as we were doing this and grinning inanely at each other that I noticed the red Transit van turning out of the other end of the street . |
| 11 | Radulfus maintained his judicial calm , and the earl 's broad brow was suave and benign , though there was no guessing what went on in the highly intelligent mind behind it ; but Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin sat very erect , stiff in the spine and with long , refined faces sharpened into steel , studiously not looking straight at each other , but maintaining each a bright gaze on distance , and the appearance of considering with magisterial detachment the situation that confronted them . |
| 12 | Cameron and Menzies were looking seriously at each other . |
| 13 | he or she does not need to look ponderously at each piece on the board to be sure whether it as a pawn or a king . |
| 14 | The iron-clad Monitor and Merrimack hammered away at each other in the American Civil War . |
| 15 | After that just forest , mile after mile of pines , the track worsening noticeably at each junction . |
| 16 | Look carefully at each elevation for cracks , damp , bulges or any kind of distress ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 17 | From April 1989 all participants , positive and negative for HIV , underwent physical examination and , in addition to serological tests , immunological tests were performed routinely at each visit . |
| 18 | The two men nodded warily at each other . |
| 19 | The men glanced quickly at each other . |
| 20 | Oblivious to the milling crush around them , they stood staring delightedly at each other . |
| 21 | Individuals feed and grow slowly , spending longer at each growth stage and ultimately producing fewer eggs . |
| 22 | And so the lines had been drawn for the battle that still raged , feminists and FAMILY glaring balefully at each other over the dying body of the welfare state . |
| 23 | She begins by saying , ‘ We all know that Sean and Michael had a bit of a barney today ’ ( Sean and Michael smile sheepishly at each other ) … ‘ and everyone else wanted to see … |
| 24 | The two men were now staring fixedly at each other . |
| 25 | The two boys looked uneasily at each other , but said nothing . |
| 26 | Bold and extrovert characters , they would sit on the bedroom balcony and shout raucously at each other , but they really are quite handsome birds . |
| 27 | Even the pair of plumed cockatoos that normally chattered away at each other in their wrought-iron enclosure were asleep on their perches . |
| 28 | They stared glumly at each other for a few moments , before Laura shrugged . |
| 29 | He continued up the hill , and she went on down ; but a few paces further on she stopped and looked back , and it was at that precise moment that it happened , because he had turned back as well and for a few moments they looked longingly at each other , each tongue-tied , but each sure , now , of the other 's feelings . |
| 30 | Christina joined in whilst James and Elaine looked helplessly at each other . |