Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , it promised to look again at the case of Canford Heath in Dorset , where a recent court judgement upheld the decision by Poole Borough Council to build houses on the heath in the face of vociferous opposition from conservation groups , led by the World Wide Fund for Nature [ see ED no . |
| 2 | It was too cold to stand and stare , and the wind kept buffeting us dangerously each time we tried to gaze across at the Ocean . |
| 3 | As they passed Guido and Ronni 's table , just for an instant Guido turned and seemed to smile directly at the girl . |
| 4 | Saturday was the one day on which he seemed to arrive early at the Herald office , but she doubted whether he would have got there yet . |
| 5 | No one else seemed to think so at the time . |
| 6 | Henry Mayhew described how the costers preferred tasty cable-cord trousers , ‘ made to fit tightly at the knee and swell gradually until they reached the boot , which they nearly cover ’ . |
| 7 | She turned to smile benevolently at the scurrying passengers behind her . |
| 8 | I do not wish you to violate your oath of secrecy or your conscience but , ’ and he tuned to look eagerly at the Bishop , ‘ with His Lordship 's permission , I would like to take you aside and quietly ask you one question ? |
| 9 | One hacker 's wife remarked : ‘ The whole thing started when he began to work late at the office , and I began to think that there was another woman . |
| 10 | Then it moved closer and began to scratch frantically at the foot of the bin . |
| 11 | After all , he had managed to dismantle the magical aspects of my eidesis and now he began to chew away at the very grist of what he termed my ‘ delusionary apparatus ’ . |
| 12 | Last spring Nelson Mandela was released and the USSR began to split apart at the seams . |
| 13 | Luke began to mop clumsily at the pool of milk with a teacloth . |
| 14 | For the first time in many months she contemplated the uncontemplatable , and thought that it might not be so with him , even though her heart began to thud uncomfortably at the very idea . |
| 15 | Barely a week into the tour , Johnny Marr was feeling the strain : ‘ I feel like I 'm in The Rolling Stones or any other rock band , ’ he said as the gruelling schedule began to etch away at the excitement generated by that first night . |
| 16 | The acid began to eat away at the edge of her tunic , the bottom strands of her curly hair . |
| 17 | She hung it up carefully on a big wooden coat hanger and began to brush hard at the dried mud . |
| 18 | Basuki , of Indonesia , had held two points for a 4–0 lead in the decider but the fourth seed began to miss forehands and Van Lottum began to attack more at the net . |
| 19 | He found his sword and started to chop methodically at the doomed arms . |
| 20 | He strode into the hall and started to peer expertly at the walls and ceiling . |
| 21 | He pulled , and managed to bend forwards at the waist like an oarsman . |
| 22 | THE list of processes thought to occur abiotically at the Earth 's surface has been shrinking on a yearly basis . |
| 23 | Its regulated , preventive surveillance features , in practice meant ‘ moving on ’ those civilians who dared to stand idly at the street corner . |
| 24 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 25 | She smiled ruefully , then continued to wave frantically at the approaching train . |
| 26 | the other one , but even though it opens outwards , a bit comes in and a bit comes out and so he had to chip away at the |
| 27 | I had to think of her seeing the copy of my cock on Monday , I had to think of her first thinking , ‘ Golly , what a nut ’ , and then finding she had to stare uncontrollably at the specific image of my cock , boyoing , had to file that image away in a secret file folder where she filed away all my asterisk memos , and that some night working late , she 'd reach her long arms down to that drawer and bring out the asterisk file and go through the pages , asterisk after asterisk , until she found my cock . |
| 28 | He was educated at a boarding school in Littlehampton , but had to leave abruptly at the age of sixteen for financial reasons when his father died suddenly of pneumonia . |
| 29 | Eurotunnel , where fears of another refinancing continued to eat away at the share price , and MEPC stood out as the only Footsie stocks to fall , off 1 at 402p and 2 at 286p respectively . |
| 30 | He almost missed the turning off the taxiway to the runway and had to brake hard at the last minute . |