Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They came ashore at the small fishing ports of Mo i Rana and Bodö ; their headquarters group landing from their parent ship HMS Royal Ulsterman on 13 May 1940 . |
| 32 | Zack drove always at the proper speed , his companions upright and silent in their seats . |
| 33 | Sometimes you make a mistake , and you are not a Bisu at all , but simply what they " — he gestured resignedly at the howling spectators — " call us all anyway , just " lady boys " ! " |
| 34 | How he must have stared through the grid at freedom , and squinted hopelessly at the waxed wingnuts securing the gate of his oubliette . |
| 35 | He gestured vaguely at the upper reaches of seats . |
| 36 | 43 Lionel Mapelson , photographed backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House , New York . |
| 37 | He poked warily at the dark mound . |
| 38 | The depressing news for the Iron Lady who ruled Britain for 11 years is that nine out of ten can not recall the day she quit , according to research revealed yesterday at the British Psychological Society 's London conference . |
| 39 | England 's bid succeeded yesterday at the European Table Tennis Union Congress in Stuttgart , beating off a strong challenge from Croatia . |
| 40 | He nodded politely at the astonished face that Glyn turned on him and moved to the door . |
| 41 | The accident happened when the van turned right at the Great Stainton crossroads towards Newton Aycliffe and was hit by a car driven by Paul Scott , 40 , of St Edmund 's Green , Sedgefield . |
| 42 | Below the rear central lamp , which shone into the interior , is the curved transverse tambour ; once erroneously thought to have been a sword-case , it opened only at the left hand end , outside the carriage , and its true purpose is obscure . |
| 43 | Her voice faded away at the sardonic gleam in his eyes . |
| 44 | She clattered back to her office and pounded away at the audio letters for an hour and a half , broken only by a trip to the kitchen for coffee . |
| 45 | The election arrived just at the right time . |
| 46 | With a nail brush she scrubbed persistently at the frosted glass of the small window , where something black ( dirt ? or some kind of growth ? ) spread all along the indented patterns on the glass . |
| 47 | THE SENDER of the letter threatening Luca Cumani with violence unless he saddles the heavily backed Shellac in Saturday 's Cambridgeshire will have been appeased , temporarily at least , by the fact that the colt was one of 42 horses declared yesterday at the five-day stage for the race , writes John Cobb . |
| 48 | He frowned angrily at the old gentleman , and asked sharply , |
| 49 | French firms arrived late at the foreign-investment auction and paid high prices as a result . |
| 50 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 51 | Perhaps the best one of all happened again at the good old reception desk at the BBC , but this time not to me . |
| 52 | Blessed light showed faintly at the second-floor landing , coming from an open door . |
| 53 | A man climbed to the top and gazed helplessly at the curved expanse of the copper-sheathed dome . |
| 54 | A small boy armed with a stick tried to beat off two hungry-looking dogs which sniffed suspiciously at the dead beggar 's bloody feet . |
| 55 | Horses , gun-dogs and books filled his day , and many a regicide glanced wrathfully at the nonchalant figure of the tall Englishman strolling unconcernedly in the highways and byways of Belgrade . |
| 56 | In order for UK businesses to make their voice heard properly at the right level , UK industry must be aware , more than ever before , of the process of Community law-making . |
| 57 | Rostov reached for the flat permahide envelope which contained his orders and for a moment he brushed absently at the crisp new admiral 's stripe on his sleeve . |
| 58 | Faldo still enjoyed a three-stroke cushion , but the pumped-up Australian resembled an executioner as he hacked away at the Open champion 's lead . |
| 59 | The husband glanced desperately at the front door . |
| 60 | In a mad impulsive movement , which Molly later insisted was self defence , she jabbed desperately at the oncoming fish . |