Example sentences of "at [pron] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humanism considered the most powerful or most noble within society to be the best readers and directed writing at them not exclusively because writers looked to this class for generous rewards or for some snobbish appeal . |
| 2 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 3 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 4 | With a shout , I ran at them as hard as I could . |
| 5 | I put my tongue out at them as far as it would go . |
| 6 | Mr Flood the butcher had looked at them very strangely as they walked up the street . |
| 7 | Each time she heard her name the girl stared at them more anxiously than ever , as if she wanted to speak , to excuse herself , but was too exhausted . |
| 8 | That the Corporation do maintain a good and efficient School , whereof a Free School , at which not less than 30 boys are to be educated , shall form apart . |
| 9 | He looked at her more closely as she poured the stale brownish water from the vase down the sink . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh my ! ’ said Bob , looking at her more seriously than his voice would have suggested , ‘ you have changed your tune . |
| 11 | The case trotted on at something slightly better than the conventional pace of litigation in this country and arrived at a point where each side had to ‘ discover ’ to the other all relevant documents relating to the matter . |
| 12 | He smiled at her again later when she was up at the bar ordering a second round for her and Natasha , as he and his friends were standing further along the bar . |
| 13 | They stopped just beyond the steps of the food office and , all the irritation seeming to flow from him , he looked at her meekly now as he said , ‘ I may not see you again for weeks . |
| 14 | She established herself firmly in her parents ' house once again , with the addition of her daughter , and decided that , as she did not appear at her very best when moving due to her injury , she would remain on a sofa all the time . |
| 15 | He glanced up at her almost respectfully as he poured himself some tea . |
| 16 | He released her , his fingers still loosely in the escaped strands of her hair , staring at her as blankly as if she were some phantom being from another incarnation , a mythical seductress beamed unexpectedly into the passenger seat of his car . |
| 17 | But she seemed to have got over her momentary embarrassment , so he smiled at her as warmly as he could , and she went away to eat her solitary lunch in the small bed-sitting-room alongside the nursery , which was the only part of the Unit that was n't monitored with cameras and tape recorders . |
| 18 | And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge . |
| 19 | ‘ Then I 'll need to work at it even harder than I am at the moment . ’ |
| 20 | If it is to save us , we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death . |
| 21 | Back with his own cast , he was determined to keep them at it as long as possible , fulfilling his own need for manic activity . |