Example sentences of "[vb past] again at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She peered again at the water below and fought with the nausea and the dizziness and the fear . |
| 2 | He tried again at the corner and got a smooth rounded canter . |
| 3 | His spirits sank again at the prospect and although he went out to Ruislip where his former battalion now had its headquarters , and although he was received by Colonel Bumford , his spirits were at zero three days later when Charity spoke to him on the telephone . |
| 4 | His face clouded again at the thought . |
| 5 | He drew the sword out and prodded again at the wizard , who was rigid with terror and guilt . |
| 6 | What 's more , he had also learned that he must ignore the first playing of the tune , and wait 15 minutes until it played again at the end of the programme — the dog would look up quizzically at the sound of the familiar music but stay still , apparently too smart to respond to an obvious false alarm . |
| 7 | Assisted by Southgate and two sleepy-eyed , half-dressed servants we hammered again at the door until it buckled , creaking and groaning , before snapping back , breaking the lock . |
| 8 | We arrived again at the street where we had heard the news of the assassination attempt . |
| 9 | We marvelled again at the scenery of West Spitsbergen , its sharply tipped mountains of dark rock , the glacier-filled valleys between and the tiny strips of life-giving vegetation which made it possible for some birds and animals to exist . |
| 10 | If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive , it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine , and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings , far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission . |
| 11 | Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool . |
| 12 | He glanced again at the wallet . |
| 13 | A little later , she glanced again at the book and said : ‘ A side of life I know nothing about . |
| 14 | Every few minutes she glanced again at the postcard . |
| 15 | Peskova bowed , then glanced again at the albino . |
| 16 | In the living room she sat by the fire and glanced again at the envelope . |
| 17 | So it was that about half an hour later the telephone rang again at the vicarage . |
| 18 | Rincewind looked again at the dragon before him . |
| 19 | She looked again at the hopper 's clock . |
| 20 | They re-climbed the steps to the granite flags and there Karl turned and looked again at the statue , his face still sunken and sour . |
| 21 | He looked again at the church and remembered Father Reynard 's sermon . |
| 22 | She looked again at the bottle , standing like a soldier on the wooden bench . |
| 23 | Bernice looked again at the bones . |
| 24 | As she looked again at the faces of her family she was ready to burst into tears and almost did so but Erika , moving lightly into the kitchen , said : ‘ Fräulein Silber thinks that I should stay with her next week . ’ |
| 25 | Tony looked again at the poster — felt it drawing him to the past — the glamour of showbusiness , with its stage-door Johnnies and exciting , feminine showgirls . |
| 26 | Karl looked across the street to where , among the cargo boats , the French and British Embassies hung out their flags , then looked again at the battleship . |
| 27 | He looked again at the scatter of markers , hoping that some system of lines might appear , some focal point . |
| 28 | He looked again at the newspaper account of the adjourned inquest that his father had saved for him . |
| 29 | When Julia looked again at the judge she could see the family likeness . |
| 30 | He looked again at the menu and chose a Dom Perignon . |