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 | I stopped momentarily to look at the old ‘ cenotaph ’ or what remained of it . |
| 5 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 6 | Then his weight lifted and she opened her dazed eyes , confused , as he moved away to sit at the edge of the bed . |
| 7 | There was one other issue which the CEGB tried hard to avoid at the Hinkley C Inquiry . |
| 8 | She used ter sing at the Star in Abbey Street , ’ Broomhead informed him . |
| 9 | You 'd better start at the beginning . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd better start at the beginning , and it 's a long story . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd better begin at the beginning . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Filmer came alone to sit at an untenanted table , ordering eggs and coffee from Oliver without looking at him . |
| 14 | He seemed greatly cheered at the prospect of my arrival and held out his glass . |
| 15 | I mean to me the boss of of our bench , there was probably twenty people on the bench , to me the boss of that it was n't what you call a particularly good job but she 'd always worked at the and of course when when went on War work er th those that were still there they got the better jobs you see , to organize us that had n't been , worked there before . |
| 16 | Indeed , we 'd often hooted at a poster of a diminutive Den , aged six , which bore the words : ‘ He 's six , he sings , he syncopates . ’ |
| 17 | He came across to look at the image open on my lectern : a wild man covered in shaggy green fur was fighting a little hon with a club . |
| 18 | When at last I looked up we 'd almost arrived at the village . |
| 19 | Rachel froze on the bottom stair , heart stopping , and her head turned slowly to look at the pretty amah . |
| 20 | The goldfinches pecked neatly and precisely : The snow buntings burrowed energetically , discarding dead stalks and leaves with a quick flick of the head ; then dug deeper to get at the hidden seeds , their busy movements leaving visible impressions . |
| 21 | Instead , he turned away to stare at the picture of her mother which was on the chest of drawers . |
| 22 | ‘ It goes on to explain how the geneticists and the neurochemists — neurotransmitters and all that — are in on the act = ’ His red eyes searched mine once more , then turned away to stare at the solitary lamp . |
| 23 | But Becky often skipped away to listen at the back . |
| 24 | Jinny felt her breath stop as her eyes swivelled automatically to look at the Hare-woman . |
| 25 | Others walked away to look at the island , and two men stayed to watch the boat . |
| 26 | Following the demonstration that children could achieve various levels of skill in referential communication tasks , attention became increasingly directed at the reasons for the relatively limited success of preschool and early primary school children at these tasks . |
| 27 | Mrs Beavis looked plumply overflowing at the table . |
| 28 | I felt strangely repelled at the thought of eating meat . |
| 29 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 30 | She , and could , found she could not fly and laid there looking at the sky . |