Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Soviet efforts to minimize the impact of his resignation internationally included a Congress resolution passed overwhelmingly at the end of the debate affirming the continuity of foreign policy .
2 The good thing about cruises is that you always have the ship 's staff to help you if you have a problem and there are always guided tours laid on at every port of call .
3 This is of flannel : the round part is plaited up to form the front , and a quilling of the bordering put on , a band of the same laid on at the back , and strings . ’
4 Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon .
5 They checked right at the start of the inquiry .
6 Wriggling in our seats we gazed dumbly at the teacher , as dogs will whose owner is eating a slice of cake ( Miss !
7 Settling himself in one of the big , shabby armchairs , Tug gazed suspiciously at the television screen and waited for a picture to appear .
8 He went back , took a hoe from inside the door of his house and stabbed furiously at the cabbage patch , trying to rearrange the furrows in neat order .
9 ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ?
10 Next morning Lucy found herself seated alone at the corner table , and when Jean brought her breakfast she learnt that Silas and Matt had left earlier to help the farm manager move cattle into different fields .
11 Her fingernail stabbed swiftly at the Harlequin .
12 No-one had said whose the other was , but from the tone of their glances Elizabeth guessed he was her husband 's — she glowed inside at the word .
13 The distinctive aroma of chocolate and liqueurs will entice you to view the delectable selection of hand made quality chocolates and fudge made daily at the village confectionery .
14 If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem .
15 These leaves are beautifully preserved in a flat-bedded and very highly fissile shale , laid down at the bottom of a fresh water lake .
16 However some water got in at the front .
17 Just er we lived down at the bottom of the village there .
18 Detective Chief Inspector John McLeish gazed doubtfully at the plate before him .
19 Something similar must have happened to Middleton 's crew because we met together at the station and took the train on the last lap to Cambridge .
20 Brother Cadfael was just emerging from the door of the infirmary in mid-morning , after replenishing Brother Edmund 's stores in the medicine cupboard , when they rode in at the gatehouse before his eyes .
21 From his precarious position on an ice field , Charsky gazed down at the valley , so unutterably remote .
22 He gazed down at the bunker , head bent and quiet , as though paying his respects .
23 She gazed down at the floor despondently .
24 Gina gazed down at the map unseeingly , her mind preoccupied with the unhappy little scene in her own living-room .
25 He walked up the hill near the farm and then reaching the summit gazed down at the farmhouse .
26 [ PC. 2. ] leered intimidatingly at the guy , who had no comment to make .
27 All trainees gazed admiringly at the man who was paid to teach them .
28 dissenting ) [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 790 allowing an appeal by the respondent , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society ( now the Woolwich Building Society ) , from the decision of Nolan J. [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 137 that the right to repayment to them by the revenue of sums of £42,426,421 , £2,856,821 and £11,714,969 paid by Woolwich pursuant to a demand by the revenue under the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 , which were subsequently held to have been ultra vires , arose only at the moment of the decision as to the invalidity of the Regulations and not from the time that the payments were made .
29 He took another sip of whisky and gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling .
30 The ducks gazed thoughtfully at the sky and flapped their wings , but not so much as a peep was uttered by any of them .
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