Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the tracks turns right at the woods , walk ahead to the gap in the hedge where the path joins the Ridgeway ( 639 032 ) . |
| 2 | Guruji looks inquiringly at the companions . |
| 3 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 4 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 5 | If one looks back at the text-books and review papers written about psychobiology during t , his period one finds that they were largely preoccupied with topics like motivation and emotion . |
| 6 | He glances back at the stones of the air shaft . |
| 7 | The little hamlet of San Felice lies virtually at the gates of Siena . |
| 8 | BLUE PLANET 's sensational photography explores continents and oceans , and looks too at the forces that influence our environment : storms , volcanoes , earthquakes , typhoons and , perhaps the most powerful of all , Mankind . |
| 9 | When I ask our guide who lives there , he glances disapprovingly at the slums . |
| 10 | While other poets busily peer about them , acknowledging the given world , Porter looks inwards at the figures described by his imagination . |
| 11 | Corrosion within heating systems gradually eats away at the insides of steel radiators to form iron oxides — the brown or black sludge that is so familiar to any d-i-y plumber . |
| 12 | The tour kicks off at the Arches Theatre , Glasgow on May 10 . |
| 13 | There 's a great physicality to it , like when Lee 's bro Neil biffs away at the drums during ‘ Failure ’ . |
| 14 | Metazoans are virtually absent except in some of the lakes where fresh water seeps in at the edges . |
| 15 | A leader without a party to go to , he nods and winks his way through the set crammed with seaside singalongs , while brother Scott grins cheesily at the girls during a knockabout ‘ Theme From The New Avengers ’ . |
| 16 | A leader without a party to go to , he nods and winks his way through the set crammed with seaside singalongs , while brother Scott grins cheesily at the girls during a knockabout ‘ Theme From The New Avengers ’ . |
| 17 | Havelock Ellis said , ‘ A worm gnaws periodically at the roots of women 's life . ’ |
| 18 | no one sits out at the tables |
| 19 | The path peters out at the falls and you either backtrack or tackle the heather hedgehog upwards to escape the gorge . |
| 20 | McDunn 's mouth twists down at the edges ; he sucks through his teeth , and for some reason I feel encouraged . |
| 21 | However , one major difference has been that the mind of an individual develops with time and becomes better at the tasks it undertakes , whereas computers , with certain limited exceptions , perform at the same level of ability until replaced by a better machine or a better program . |
| 22 | competition from the new commodity , the new technology , the new source of supply , the new type of organization … competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms ( and possibly even entire national economies ) but it their foundations and their very lives . |
| 23 | It comes in at the nerve-ends and is translated into chemical and electrical reactions . |
| 24 | ‘ You can also find that grass dies back at the edges of the slot . ’ |