Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] at [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Grand Trunk Canal promoted by him and his merchant associate Thomas Bently was set afoot in 1766 after the Duke of Bridgewater had already moved the line of his Runcorn cut to meet up at its northern end and complete the joining of the Trent and Mersey . |
| 2 | Most Civil Service departments , for instance , now allow their staff to work part-time at their current grades , with pro rata pay and benefits , such as pensions . |
| 3 | In spite of everything , they had managed to reach home at their usual time . |
| 4 | These are both the kind of information you should be able to pick up at your local field , in exactly the same form . |
| 5 | In fact , it sounds rather like the tone of a flat-out , old Fender Champ — not the kind of thing they 'd like to hear down at your local C&W club ! |
| 6 | Rachel jumped as though burnt , turning to stare down at his hard thigh , then saw the phone in his hand , her eyes shooting to his through her lashes . |
| 7 | She did n't see Travis lift his head to look down at her sleeping form , nor the strange little smile that twisted his lips before he lay down again , tucking her body closely into the warmth of his . |
| 8 | By then some of the hurt had lessened and he was able to look down at her scrawly handwriting and think : so she made it . |
| 9 | It requires teachers to look critically at their own present practice as well as being able to conceive of alternatives . |
| 10 | ‘ We will have to look further at our organisational structure . |
| 11 | But if hobbies like swimming , gardening and DIY fail to hold her attention she is threatening to help out at her local Citizens ' Advice Bureau . |
| 12 | Later , after a deliberately nostalgic and painful visit to St Juliot in March 1913 , he was able to look back at their early days together in ‘ At Castle Boterel ’ , ‘ Beeny Cliff ’ , ‘ The phantom horsewoman ’ , and eventually to come to terms , however imperfectly , with his memories . |
| 13 | Any such attempt has to look closely at their chastened but ultimately unchastenable hero , at his hostility , at his stylistic authority and command of the books he belongs to . |
| 14 | It means helping counsellees to look closely at their own emotions in order to decide whether they are necessary , or an on-going indulgence ( on the basis that certain people enjoy the ‘ benefits ’ of sympathy and concern , so actually make use of their social distress ) over which they could exercise more control if they wanted to do so . |
| 15 | They were forced to look again at their own system and make adjustments . |
| 16 | It would certainly encourage the brewers to look again at their commercial strategy . |
| 17 | Marie was half-way to Bella 's house when self-doubt began to gnaw away at her new-found confidence and her sense of purpose crumbled . |
| 18 | as if , in part , to fight back at their crushing fate , the Welsh families in those industrial valleys bred and grew and savoured their own with biblical fruitfulness and devotion . |
| 19 | I asked another teacher , ‘ Well , what do you think ? ’ she said ‘ You were wrong to shout back at her full stop ! |
| 20 | If you do decide to call in at your own NatWest branch , our staff will normally be able to complete all the formalities on the spot and to discuss any particular aspects of the project . |
| 21 | When I sat down I told Janina 's mother , expecting her to tutut approvingly at my astute virtue . |
| 22 | I remember driving harder , harder in order to arrive quickly at our favourite patch of ferns , while you sat by me innocently panting . |
| 23 | ‘ We are asking staff who have not been given another location to turn up at their nearest branch , where a desk and computer terminal will be provided for them . ’ |
| 24 | There are others ( amongst whom I am one ) who would argue that we need to give young children the opportunity to develop fully at their own pace and in their own individual ways . |
| 25 | Clara forbore to point out that cremation did result , precisely , in ashes , because she took , expertly , her mother 's meaning , which was that cremation was an unnatural practice and that bodies ought to rot quietly at their own leisure . |
| 26 | ‘ I promise you that we will have a long talk — and sort out everything between us , once and for all , ’ he murmured , burying his face in her blonde hair for a moment , before raising himself up on an elbow to gaze down at her lovely face . |
| 27 | His daughters , Eliza and Margaret , came to gaze dutifully at their stricken father . |