Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adj] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A moment always comes when we have looked too long at a landscape … |
| 2 | He had looked very grave at the thought of all those rotting star fruit , those superannuated pies and fizzing yoghurts . |
| 3 | Her blouse was scooped so low at the front that it left her shoulders and upper arms bare . |
| 4 | She had felt so confident at the outset in her ability to keep track of time , but now it was beginning to desert her . |
| 5 | There would be enormous difficulties in trying to operate a general rule that had not been made sufficiently specific at a proper point beforehand . |
| 6 | This double characterisation was made more hilarious at the first performances when the bossy one was danced by Helpmann , and later the taller MacMillan , with wonderfully extended développés , and the shyer one by Ashton with dainty attempts to be correct at all costs . |
| 7 | Morris had once done as much at a Labour Party conference in Blackpool . |
| 8 | Robbie bristled indignantly , the more so because she had felt strangely bereft at the thought of being without his company . |
| 9 | My friend and I were made very welcome at the centre — the staff , atmosphere and facilities were excellent , as was the food . |
| 10 | Oh Mrs , she said she 'd be , she would do them but she 'd felt absolutely terrified at the prospect because she had a a few years ago cos Gerry never had trousers with turn ups . |
| 11 | The judge rejected the defendants ' argument that the information was made publicly available at the race meeting and that they were accordingly free to publish it . |
| 12 | You have n't got as much at the front as I have . |
| 13 | The House of Windsor has become highly adept at the business of its own survival . |
| 14 | Erm indeed over the last two or three years the borough council 's become extremely concerned at the deteriorating economic situation within the district and particularly around Harrogate itself . |
| 15 | In much of the writing on the dependent elderly , the assumption has been made that retirement has become more common at an earlier age because of a reduction in the demand for elderly workers . |
| 16 | If you have become fairly proficient at the nose-in hover , you may find that this figure is easier to perform by standing with your back to the wind and taking off and landing in the nose-in position . |
| 17 | They comprise those who , having looked hard at the evidence , have become increasingly alarmed at the pace and the direction of the legal and institutional changes which are taking place and which culminated in the Maastricht notion of Union citizenship . |
| 18 | The veterans have become increasingly alarmed at the incidence of illness — especially cancers amongst the 20,000 who were present at the tests . |
| 19 | She looked back over that stormy summer and was surprised to see each scene , even the ones that had seemed rather painful at the time , shining with an almost holy silver light . |
| 20 | It had all seemed so different at the start of the campaign . |
| 21 | Moreover , answers for small loans were concentrated very much at the short-repayment-period end of the scale , while answers for large loans were spread more evenly across the whole range of options from 6 to 36 months . |
| 22 | Like many other academic initiatives , it seems to have gone largely unnoticed at the time , and its historical importance has been perhaps exaggerated by those who live between the covers of books , yet it illustrates that in Germany freedom is considered primarily as freedom from an occupying power , from external political domination . |
| 23 | That photographic plates stored away uninspected at the end of an experiment only acquire a definite image when someone opens the drawer to have a look at them ? |
| 24 | The top is a bra-style with a scooped neckline and a low back ; the matching pants have an easy , roll-down top and are cut fairly high at the sides to make your legs look longer . |
| 25 | Short , structured style cut very short at the sides with longer top layers |
| 26 | Indeed , Gregory almost admitted as much at the end of the Histories when he asked his successors in the bishopric of Tours to preserve his works intact , allowing no alteration to them , except their versification . |
| 27 | West Indies ; England therefore finished well clear at the top of the table , with 11 points to West Indies ' 7 and Australia 's 6 . |
| 28 | Asthma is usually thought of as a disease of young people , yet most of the patients had been aged over 55 at the time of death , a significant number being elderly ( figure ) . |
| 29 | In the area of closest scrutiny only 14 per cent of males ( 45/311 ) and 19 per cent of females ( 75/390 ) aged over ten at the time of the 1861 census were living in the same house as the one they had inhabited in 1851 ; but many of them had moved only a short distance . |
| 30 | Perhaps he had drunk too much at the Grapes . |