Example sentences of "and [vb past] at a " in BNC.
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1 | I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard . |
2 | Nevertheless they mounted and rode at a good trot up the great road towards the north . |
3 | Victoria turned over in her sleep and cooed at a dream . |
4 | The deepest area is a central depression some 2500km long and 1500km wide , surrounding the North Pole and oriented at a right angle to Greenland ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
5 | A hand was clapped roughly over her mouth , and she was almost lifted up by the arms and moved at a run back into the house , where Mrs Prynn was waiting in her nightcap and gown , with the trap door into the cellar open and the key in her hand . |
6 | We all take drugs in some form or another , some are legal , you can buy them over the counter or your G P may prescribe , those are illegal , but still widely available and used at a price . |
7 | He took up a fork and prodded at a dish of small silvery fish marinated in olive oil , garlic and wine vinegar . |
8 | There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot . |
9 | and woke at a slant . |
10 | He took the wheel after that and drove at a furious speed back to San José , where he turned right on to the Pan-Am . |
11 | The labelled cells were washed with medium and resuspended at a concentration of 1×10 5 cells/ml . |
12 | Turning to football , the West Indies have done nothing on an international scale , though the game is popular and played at a domestic level . |
13 | She did n't look at him now , but stared at her plate , and nibbled at a piece of fresh bread as a way of avoiding conversation . |
14 | In 1984 , radio astronomers from Columbia University identified electro-magnetic vortices in our Milky Way and arrived at a similar conclusion to the theories of Alfven and Perratt . |
15 | So off I went … and arrived at a country house with a large garden . |
16 | We stayed for three days , and then we took the night boat to Belgium , and arrived at a tall , fine school building in the centre of Brussels . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | By the early 1970s the CNAA had established and reviewed policies ; framed a pattern of degrees and made the revisions which resulted , for example , in the adoption of the degree and degree with honours , branching from a common foundation , to replace the essentially two-track ordinary and honours structure ; and arrived at a broad and growing diversity of subject areas to validate , with a potential to make a major contribution in additional areas . |
19 | On that basis Mr took the cost of one professional carer as twenty three thousand eight hundred and six pounds a year , he multiplied by three point five and arrived at a figure of eighty three thousand three hundred and twenty one pounds . |
20 | We turned on a pre-arranged course and climbed at a predetermined rate of feed per minute at a certain airspeed . |
21 | I unscrewed the cap and sniffed at a minute drop of liquid — it was odourless . |
22 | He got out and knocked at a window . |
23 | When he was certain they were not being followed he darted down a narrow , stinking court and knocked at a door . |
24 | Even Isay unbent a little , and grinned at a raven-haired wench when she made a lewd pluck at his staff . |
25 | Jonathan returned to his desk and tinkered at a console . |
26 | In desperation she ran down the stairs and called at a neighbour ( whose young son happily was at home ) . |
27 | He cried out and grabbed at a nearby wall to steady himself . |
28 | He , too , was a writer and worked at a brewery — as Havel had done — keeping his thoughts to himself . |
29 | Similarly , inadequate information about the siting of the jetty at Rothera meant that it had to be redesigned and repositioned at a relatively late stage , at an additional cost of £2 million . |
30 | and urinated at a festival , |