Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he went on gazing at Thérèse , voluptuous in flowered chintz and blue ribbons . |
| 2 | The type of batteries most favoured at present are either 1.5 volt AA pen-lights or the 9 volt PP3s . |
| 3 | Mr. Steed was duly registered at H.M. |
| 4 | She says that it 's good to have somewhere to swim at lunchtimes . |
| 5 | Not only did he go on to lose at Waterloo : he suffered the final indignity of living and dying in a house called The Briars on St Helena , far down in the South Atlantic . |
| 6 | Generally , all the clues for problem solving are there , if a little disguised at times , but it 's unlikely you will get too stuck on the easy setting . |
| 7 | Hearing people have significantly better recall for items which they vocally repeat at presentation , while deaf people find it more difficult to recall items when they have to overtly repeat the sign when it is presented . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , it is not always these States which exert the most influence at ICAO divisional meetings where the policies are worked out by the national delegates that attend . |
| 9 | For those who would rather stay at home |
| 10 | Many of the world 's travellers would rather stay at home . |
| 11 | The steady rise in quality of the materials produced and developed at Dudley Teachers ' Centre , for instance , is an excellent example ; the centre has an enthusiastic warden and much of the work has developed under the stimulus of an outstanding educational adviser , but the content of the materials has been developed by local teachers with admirable results ( mostly limited at present to print-form ) . |
| 12 | I got wet thro ’ and was kindly and hospitably treated at Mrs. Fletcher 's sisters … ’ |
| 13 | The industry received a subsidy , optimistically calculated at £10 million , but in fact costing £23 million , to keep wages and profits at their existing level . |
| 14 | Obviously there are certain key factors to any sort of reasonable living space : walls and ceiling will have to be decorated along with all the woodwork ; windows and floors have to be treated in some way ; there must be light both to see by and to enhance the space ; there should be something to sit on and probably to eat from and almost certainly somewhere to work at times . |
| 15 | For those in search of the true state of this extraordinary art , there is no better guide than the massive , three-volume Handbook , written by the cream of the US artificial intelligentsia and skilfully edited at Ed Feigenbaum 's AI citadel at Stanford University . |
| 16 | The necessary contact could partly be maintained by means of meetings and round-table discussions of the kind so successfully organised at Uig for the Arkleton Trust , but it would be desirable to give it some more concrete , institutional form as well . |
| 17 | They were in the ecclesiastical tradition which would have prevailed in the north if Wilfrid had not been forcibly installed at York by Theodore in place of Chad . |
| 18 | There can not be many lyric-writers who have begun their careers in the theatre by dancing Scheherazade in a strip-club in Los Angeles , gone on to appear at La Scala , Milan and then to play the title-role in Mother Company . |
| 19 | In gratitude for what I thought God had given me , a second chance , I ignored Leon 's boredom as I talked him through the files — just as I was ignoring Muriel 's messages to call her — and I ignored his rarely appearing at meetings with agricultural reps and men from the Milk Marketing Board ; ignored his non-involvement with any of the humdrum things essential to the running of a place like Sleet . |
| 20 | He went on to work at Birmingham , Bristol and Luton , as he progressed to other jobs within the operations department . |
| 21 | Such papers are widely dispersed at present , in specialist clinical , radiological , pathological , and epidemiological journals . |
| 22 | They 've come so far , they were giving daily displays at Crufts recently : they spend 16 weeks learning to recognise an alarm clock . |
| 23 | M27 is the most dwarfing stock ; trees reach only 5–6ft at maturity . |
| 24 | This was an activity not much favoured at Verdun , as it invariably attracted a tornado of enemy fire . |
| 25 | A local dental surgeon , Mr. Williams , was kind enough to attend at Dr. Prior 's request and he administered the gas gratuitously . |
| 26 | I can only laugh at Rachel now . |
| 27 | It is a system which not merely connived at nepotism , it depended upon it . |
| 28 | Plover Hide is one of thirteen hides , all situated at sites regarded as particularly rewarding from a bird watcher 's point-of-view . |
| 29 | ‘ I think you 'd better stay at home , ’ Otley cautioned . |
| 30 | The former UK Prime Minister Edward Heath , conducting a humanitarian mission for which he was much criticized at home on the grounds of the possible propaganda opportunities which it might afford to the Iraqi leadership , secured the release of some 40 British nationals who arrived at Gatwick airport early on Oct. 24 ( two children , several women , and some of the men on the list of the elderly and sick which he had presented to Saddam Hussein at lengthy talks on Oct. 21 ) . |