Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [adj] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they made the bead taste bitter , by dipping it in alcohol , or quinine , or the pungent methylanthranilate , then the chick would peck once , show disgust by shaking its head vigorously and wiping its beak on the floor of its pen , and then back away , refusing to peck at a similar but dry bead offered any time from a few seconds to a few days subsequently . |
| 2 | From there the single line emerged onto the road , and along one side of it the train to West Cork would puff and blow at a brisk but not incautious pace , its smoke staining the leaves of the roadside trees , the guard ringing his bell almost without stop until they were approaching Carrigrohane and could reasonably expect to be out of range of busy pedestrians , excited children , and messenger boys on bicycles plaguing the engine-driver by trying to outspeed him . |
| 3 | Rain and Oliver called at the flat but the fingerprints man had still not been . |
| 4 | Lucille smiled at the dutiful but pleasing compliment . |
| 5 | Seb hammered at the door and tugged at the bell-pull but without anyone answering . |
| 6 | It 's very good to compare how people see you , because if for example , your score came out we 'll say at a hundred but you work mainly with adapters , the innovators who were up here , they 're going to think that you 're an adapter . |