Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a wall corner I stopped to look back at Thwaite 's collection of stone houses shimmering in the dale . |
| 2 | I learnt to sit formally at table and to eat three inedible courses of stodge with an incomprehensible array of surplus cutlery ; to whisper when I spoke as I was considered ‘ too loud ’ ; and to stop gesturing with my hands or to touch in conversation , as people inevitably shrank away from me . |
| 3 | The life-size image of the old man seemed to look down at Li Shai Tung , its dark eyes magnificent , its whole form filled with power . |
| 4 | England U-21 16pts Scotland U-21 19 SCOTLAND , better behind the scrum and with the country 's top points-scorer , deserved to win yesterday at McCracken Park , Newcastle . |
| 5 | He seemed to do better at Arse and had a good season when we won the league . |
| 6 | It always seemed to rain more at night . |
| 7 | Mrs Butler came to live here at Fewcott House after a month 's stay in hospital . |
| 8 | After commencing retraining , the ex POWs , like most soldiers on a home posting , endeavoured to get home at weekends . |
| 9 | some of them forgot to come back at night . |
| 10 | It happened as the manager arrived to open up at Cotswold Newsmarket on Priory Road in Cheltenham . |
| 11 | ‘ This is lovely , ’ she said sincerely , and turned to smile up at Penry Vaughan . |
| 12 | Then he turned to smile grimly at Tallis , adding quietly but audibly , ‘ And I do n't want that little killer anywhere in slingshot range . |
| 13 | When he turned to look intently at Jean Powers she felt a twinge of jealousy ; his arm , brushing momentarily against hers , made her tingle all over . |
| 14 | At the door his father turned to wink familiarly at Madeleine . |
| 15 | Thirty of them had been drinking so heavily that they forgot to get off at Peterborough to catch their connection to Harwich . |
| 16 | They are supervised in the early days , encouraged to speak up at meetings , and they also attend training programmes which are provided for all the care assistants . |
| 17 | So , just before his seventeenth birthday , a thin , gangly boy , but ( as Lionel Luyt remarked ) completely unselfconscious , with a nose still red from his operation , John Cranko began to work full-time at ballet . |
| 18 | The mothers and children were out of sight now , reduced to no more than faint yelps from among the council houses built on rising ground above the green , and there was no-one else about , and would not be , until the men began to come home at dusk . |
| 19 | Mum began to look more at ease . |
| 20 | After some weeks without Red Cross parcels , people began to arrive early at meals so that they could size up and take the largest of the scrupulously rationed helpings of potatoes , or the thickest of the apparently identical slices of bread . |
| 21 | LEICESTER manager Brian Little , tipped to take over at Roker Park should struggling Sunderland sack Malcolm Crosby , saw his teenage striker Julian Joachim hand his beleaguered rival another huge setback , writes David Alexander . |
| 22 | They began to show regularly at Helen Lessore 's Beaux Arts Gallery and also appeared in international exhibitions . |
| 23 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 24 | At the beginning of 1991 , we decided to look again at Cost of Quality and how it was being used in C&P . |
| 25 | After a long day sitting in the coach , I decided to get out at Millcote , leave my luggage at the hotel , and walk across the fields to Thornfield . |
| 26 | ‘ Get stuck into each other , you two , ’ shouted Trentham , but although Charlie started to jab away at Tommy 's chest he made no attempt to inflict any real pain . |
| 27 | Andover pool was now the centre of southern skating , after a coup at Andover a few decided to stop off at Farnborough and were very surprised by the level skating by the locals . |
| 28 | With a crack regiment drawn from the other end of his line , de Bazelaire decided to throw in at dawn on the 8th one of those swift counter-attacks . |
| 29 | The shares were floated on the Stock Market in 1987 at an equivalent 45p and yesterday managed to level out at 260p . |
| 30 | Quite affluent , the newcomers entertained , although Mr Thompson managed to get away at nights , robbing houses across London . |