Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The occasion of a partner leaving or joining the firm should always be taken as the opportunity to update the provisions of the agreement and , since each single provision is properly looked at in the context of the entire document , it is the whole agreement which should then be reconsidered and not simply isolated clauses . |
| 2 | Down below , thieves , assassins , trolls and merchants all realised at about the same moment that they were in a room made treacherous of foothold by gold coins and containing something , among the suddenly menacing shapes in the semi-darkness , that was absolutely horrible . |
| 3 | The symptoms , only hinted at by a headache earlier that could easily have been nothing , and by mild swelling that was normal in hot weather , had intensified with frightening suddenness , and Belinda was in no doubt about what it meant . |
| 4 | But I think I would have become more comfortable with myself anyway — it 's just the times catching up with me , my success , and feeling better about myself all came at about the same time . ’ |
| 5 | The two groups of villagers engage in a rough and tumble battle , and a peaceful settlement was only arrived at by the intervention of the schoolmasters from both villages . |
| 6 | The room is at its best looked at as a whole . |
| 7 | Charles Muses , a Columbia University Doctor of Philosophy , is convinced that there are forms of living substance far more subtle than our relatively crude polarised ( i.e. electron/proton ) matter form already hinted at in the mysterious physical effectiveness of the so-called ‘ vacuum state ’ as revealed by Quantum Physics . |
| 8 | The results are fabulous , as already hinted at by the current 45 ‘ Drive That Fast ’ , a grippingly gentle , coolly frantic , scarily mellow passage that fittingly knocks 'em over at CBGB 's . |
| 9 | Then I 'm going to the British Embassy and get a copy of the Daily Telegraph and I do n't care if it 's weeks old and I 'm going to read something I never normally look at like the nature notes if they have them . |
| 10 | They always passed at about the same time , right after midnight , and it was something he liked to watch , the way other people watch sunsets or the ocean . |
| 11 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 12 | The content of courses varies widely , and is usually arrived at by the demands of the service . |
| 13 | ( i ) Without external evidence of date , the period of a mosaic is always arrived at by an extrapolation from the style of other pavements . |
| 14 | I would have thought that for Morecambe they 're probably looking at like a thousand eleven hundred people if , you know |
| 15 | These topics are often looked at in an historical context : changes in the patterning of family life with industrialization and urbanization are examined . |
| 16 | Aberdeenshire grain farmers who last autumn stiffened themselves to trade wheat against the back stop of just £95 a tonne for product sold to the EC Commission for intervention , are now looking at at an ex-farm price of £140 a tonne . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , a diagnosis of psychosomatic illness is often arrived at by a much shorter and less strenuous route than this , particularly with female patients , who tend to be perceived as more ‘ nervy ’ . |
| 18 | In India , dowry deaths — the murder of a wife for a disappointing dowry — are not uncommon and almost invariably connived at by the legal system . |
| 19 | Jabbed by elbows , trodden on , even spat at by an old man , Constance slowly pushed through the crowd , cleaved for her by her unknown protector . |
| 20 | If Peter Greenaway 's camera is anything but a participating human representative , Gilbert 's is nothing else , addressed , ogled , and even winked at by the heroine . |
| 21 | " Significant progress " was reportedly made , resulting in a " broadening of the consensus " earlier arrived at by the UN Security Council . |
| 22 | The starting point for each of them is to ascertain from the appropriate table of retail price indices covering the period between service of writ and trial what would have been the equivalent of those damages in the money of the day at the date of service of writ , reckoned in pounds sterling at the higher value that they then stood at at the very beginning of the period for which simple interest is to be given . |
| 23 | There was not much else to look at in the room . |
| 24 | If somebody who has been actually shot at by a nuclear weapon is so goddamned complacent about it all , and so pig ignorant of the implications of the happening , what hope have we got that public opinion ( the silent majority ) will be sufficiently stirred to stop our power intoxicated leaders from brandishing their nuclear swords ? |
| 25 | My study is the perfect place for an author , especially if he does n't , as I do n't , object to being occasionally peered at through the windows by curious visitors . |
| 26 | He lost himself in its possibilities , its immensity , he went far out , and came back dazed , stunned by horizons , often with sketches he had done in a hurry and afterwards flew at with the axe of a black crayon , or a pen loaded with black ink , hacking at them fiercely , savagely , to kill off the sentimental and picturesque that was so much in vogue . |
| 27 | That is , the " manifest dream 's " apparently irrelevant and unpredictable content was actually deemed to have been systematically arrived at from a " latent dream " , whose implicit content had been the subject of some extensive dreamwork . |