Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he continued , suddenly grinning at the tall old man as they walked between the levels of stoves and cookers and fires , Scullions ran about the place , carrying brooms and buckets and baskets full of hidden ingredients . |
| 2 | Better to look at the written key word , get your practice partner to repeat the descriptive sentences ( which will then be easy ) and go on to the next on the list . |
| 3 | As it was , Eden was perhaps helped at the ensuing East–West negotiations by Soviet uncertainty and worries over American intentions , not least because of their awareness of the continuing nuclear superiority of the United States . |
| 4 | In general , though , it was considered taboo — a place scientists should not tread — until the tide apparently turned at the 1986 international conference of human geneticists in Berlin , where participants openly discussed the possibilities . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , I expect so , dear , ’ her mother replied , quite obviously thrilled at the lovely long letter she had received from her adored son . |
| 6 | Rowntree 's poverty line was drawn up , however , on the assumption that food was ‘ all purchased at the lowest current prices . |
| 7 | She was not the only one with the same idea , because on arriving at Clarendon Road there was quite a sizeable crowd , just gazing at the still smouldering ruin of a terrace of five houses . |
| 8 | It is best made at the last possible moment , although it can be kept warm for a short time in a bowl set over a pan of hot water . |
| 9 | A Cabinet committee , expected to be chaired by the Prime Minister , will be set up soon to look at the broadest possible scope of environmental policy , taking in road traffic , housing , agriculture , the rural economy , energy , and industrial development , as well as the obvious ‘ green ’ areas of policy such as planning , waste disposal and pollution . |
| 10 | For just as the latter are then not receiving as much employment as they would normally like at the prevailing real wage rate , so the former are not providing as much as they would normally like . |
| 11 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 12 | Erm what do they normally have at the big hydroelectric works ? |
| 13 | Criticisms contained in various Auditor-General 's reports could be just as easily directed at the British public sector . |
| 14 | It was happening in Liverpool , where giggly Karen had just started at the local secondary mod , and in London , where Dennis Parsons was fast learning that the prime number is number one , and where Liza was studying art at the Slade . |
| 15 | The Baron was already standing at the open front door . |
| 16 | Although a stepping motor is magnetically saturated at the rated current , larger currents can still improve the motor torque and the corresponding rates of acceleration and deceleration . |
| 17 | Our last port of call is at Chequer 's Buttress ( E1 5b ) , which fittingly stands at the far right end of Froggatt Edge . |
| 18 | The contrast between gas-rich and gas-poor magmas is much more pronounced at the viscous granitic end of the scale . |
| 19 | According to an experiment carried out in 1897 , light always travels at the same constant velocity . |
| 20 | By now I had forgotten Vauban and was surreptitiously staring at the two seated figures . |
| 21 | With guidance the client will learn to climb the ladder gradually starting at the bottom one rung at a time . |
| 22 | Furthermore , and perhaps more importantly from the point of view of answering the sceptics , even though we can not directly get at the hidden real natures of things , perhaps our knowledge of appearances will enable us to do so indirectly . |
| 23 | Towards the top of the hill he made two bad jumping errors but these made little difference to his progress , and with Fifty Dollars More falling at the final open ditch only Combs Ditch looked to have any chance of getting in the way of a Dickinson clean sweep . |
| 24 | This was delightfully expressed at the national Roman Catholic pastoral Conference held in Liverpool in 1980 where Christians were described as ‘ Easter People ’ . |
| 25 | Many Americans who lived through the war years and remembered quite vividly the virtual hatred and perceived Japanese treachery fuelled during the war probably stiffened at the presented Japanese viewpoint but it remains , for the most part , historically accurate . |
| 26 | Both presented at the Second Annual General Meeting , October 1908 . |
| 27 | THE comedian Johnny Beattie was slightly perplexed at the recent annual dinner of the Benevolent Society of the Licensed Trade in Scotland . |
| 28 | Focus on Britain and Welcome to Britain are both aimed at the young European visitor to Britain and feature domestic situations of the kind an exchange-scheme student might meet . |
| 29 | Again prosecution is clearly aimed at the undeserving poor . |
| 30 | And erm he actually , he , he started off and , and was very nervous but the summing up of it was , was brilliant erm and I , I would n't put it across as well as what he did but the principle of it was that he , he suddenly turned round and said right I have now changed my job , right , you are now looking at the new managing director of Friends Provident , he says , and the first thing I am going to do is I 'm cutting all your wages to eighty five pounds a week , what are you going to do about it ? |