Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In principle , this made profitable the speculative holding of stocks of goods whose price rose only at the average rate . |
| 32 | The windows of the car were open and they hummed along at a steady cruising speed meeting very little traffic . |
| 33 | The steel tracks ground along at a steady rate , flattening glorious highly-finned autos , scattering pedestrians and levelling lampposts . |
| 34 | The banquet began with the usual mumbo-jumbo , except the cardinal dined alone at the high table under a rich cloth of state , his fat body almost hidden by platters of heaped delicacies , whilst all around him stood serving men to refill his goblet , replenish napkins or offer a fresh knife . |
| 35 | His lips sucked eagerly at the golden liquid . |
| 36 | Vologsky grasped desperately at the floating straw . |
| 37 | Here she found Mrs Geary , kindly smoothing Twomey 's hair with her hand , while he boned away at an elegant shoe . |
| 38 | Then it moved away at a brisk trot , the small and incredibly ugly imp that was perching on its lid watching the scenery with interest . |
| 39 | As Bull watched , an elderly man with his glasses hanging from one ear bent backwards at a strange angle , as if he was made of rubber , and slid off his seat . |
| 40 | In 1961 , Arnold Claisse became President , a post he held most successfully for 10 years , during which the niggles about the bondholding autocracy increased and first surfaced formally at the 1970 Annual General Meeting . |
| 41 | His eyes narrowed dangerously at the undisguised sarcasm in her voice |
| 42 | PENSIONERS protesting outside Manchester 's town hall where about 3,000 rallied yesterday at a Grey Power conference . |
| 43 | PENSIONERS protesting outside Manchester 's town hall where about 3,000 rallied yesterday at a Grey Power conference . |
| 44 | Caroline and the rest of the group , who were raising funds for the BBC 's annual children in Need appeal , stopped off at a Turkish restaurant during their tour of four restaurants in Aberdeen . |
| 45 | We stopped off at a few cafes on the way so that we could stretch our legs . |
| 46 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 47 | Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night . |
| 48 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 49 | Miguel must have rung the policía , because their car drew up at the same time as Miguel 's jeep . |
| 50 | Sit on a stool and massage one foot at a time by placing it on your thigh , knee bent up at a right angle . |
| 51 | He peered carefully at the slim frail woman who stood so resolutely out on the porch . |
| 52 | The cop peered up at the towering fire escape for several seconds , then , satisfied it was deserted , he walked across the alley to the opposite wall . |
| 53 | Over to the west , the allied fires petered out at the same point ; yet Thiercelin fancied he could hear the rumble of distant movement . |
| 54 | At the top a glass cocktail bar slowly revolved , and drinkers exclaimed gaily at the changing spectacle of industrial buildings under construction . |
| 55 | Chuck hesitated and peered out at the teeming streets of Cholon , which they were entering . |
| 56 | Individuals doing their own thing does not work , as Jacques Chirac found out at a 1988 Paris rally . |
| 57 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
| 58 | As a member of the Advanced Volunteer Foundation , Gail was one of 750 Canadians who helped out at the fourth annual International Amateur Athletic Foundation indoor track and field meeting . |
| 59 | Karl , his head turned steadily to his right , peered intently at the run-down flats and battered buildings and factories lining small side-streets , each and every one of which ended in that apparently insignificant , almost unobtrusive wall of grey concrete blocks . |
| 60 | She peered around at the various exhibits , squinting into the sun . |