Example sentences of "at [art] [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | At fire stations and first-aid posts and rest centres , men and women would look up at the sky just as she , Vi McKeown , was doing now . |
| 2 | Creggan stared at the eagle blankly as he continued , ‘ Do n't pretend you do n't know . |
| 3 | Then Rodriguez glanced at the door again as though seeking escape , but it was shut now . |
| 4 | It is n't and you do n't have to stab at the keyboard so as to press both keys at exactly the same time . |
| 5 | She arrived back at the village just as night was turning into day . |
| 6 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 7 | Mr Sunderland himself had driven her home in his car , and she had begged him to leave her at the gate so as not to alarm her family . |
| 8 | George Cowley arrived at the hospital just as Doyle 's now unconscious body was being wheeled into the emergency operating room . |
| 9 | The TARDIS arrived back at the hospital just as two Marines escorted Benny inside . |
| 10 | Doyle smiled at the stenographer again as she glanced up . |
| 11 | He pushed past an old woman in his haste to reach Donna , looking at the woman angrily as he nearly tripped over her suitcase . |
| 12 | Willie gazed at the shop dreamily as he crossed the road . |
| 13 | Furthermore they concluded that farmers had used this political power to prevent new employment in order to keep farm wages lower , and to keep rural council house building rates at a minimum so as to keep farm workers tied to their cottages . |