Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee became so unnerved at the thought that the club premises might be under threat that when I said I knew how to deal with these bounders , but it could only be as chairman , they swallowed it hook , line and sinker . |
| 2 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 3 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |
| 4 | Swam down to sniff at the trembling . |
| 5 | He bent down to stare at the floor . |
| 6 | After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human . |
| 7 | With a parting gift of prawns and fish from a friendly fisherman , we headed over to look at the islands of bum and Eigg on the way to Ardnamurchan . |
| 8 | I stopped momentarily to look at the old ‘ cenotaph ’ or what remained of it . |
| 9 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 10 | But she came to the kitchen when summoned to help , and she tried not to grumble at the repetitive nature of the work and the talk . |
| 11 | Luce made a sweeping gesture with one arm and tried not to wince at the pain . |
| 12 | She tried not to smile at the wording , and then she handed it back . |
| 13 | He tried not to look at the screens . |
| 14 | She tried not to look at the easy , mutual affection of Finn , Francie and the dumb woman . |
| 15 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 16 | She tried not to look at the glass on the pink marble top of the wash-stand , empty , a sticky red stain at the bottom . |
| 17 | Then his weight lifted and she opened her dazed eyes , confused , as he moved away to sit at the edge of the bed . |
| 18 | Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room . |
| 19 | On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying . |
| 20 | To my left the shallow ridge that formed an edge of the valley rose up to finish at a shallow bump . |
| 21 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 22 | There was one other issue which the CEGB tried hard to avoid at the Hinkley C Inquiry . |
| 23 | Ken Corduroy drove round to the Harrisons ' with an ingenious pool-cleaning device , a mechanical object that swam round scrubbing at the walls , he had ordered for them from England . |
| 24 | We visited the Legion 's museum the following day and wandered round looking at the different flags of the units which had fought all over the world for 150 years . |
| 25 | She used ter sing at the Star in Abbey Street , ’ Broomhead informed him . |
| 26 | You 'd better start at the beginning . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd better start at the beginning , and it 's a long story . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd better begin at the beginning . |
| 29 | Perhaps that was overstating what had happened out there , but , for first time in months , she 'd suddenly felt at the mercy of the audience , aware of every whisper , every stare . |
| 30 | Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table . |