Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of staring blankly out at the world , or nervously striking at the fence , as some of the eagles did , he trekked back and forth in a figure of eight over an area that was only one tiny part of his caged area . |
| 2 | His manager , Simon , who was also Cyril 's elder brother , had persuaded him to lower his sights — or rather to aim at a different and better target . |
| 3 | HAVING REACHED the point of flying your model around in circuits , rather like a fixed-wing model , you will sooner or later-probably sooner-arrive at a point where you are unsure of the model 's exact position or attitude . |
| 4 | A man she had never seen before or since came at night . |
| 5 | This , therefore , I can not but earnestly repeat , — Break their wills betimes ; begin this great work before they can run alone before they can speak plain , or perhaps speak at all . |
| 6 | What we 're gon na do now , it 's just coming up to twenty past three , so we 'll take a tea break and then after tea we 'll come back and we 'll spend about an hour or so looking at identifying trainees . |
| 7 | Arghatun was shouting at the warriors who were grouped around the clearing , and twenty or so ran at once to one of the carts and pulled out a mass of folded fabric . |
| 8 | An hour or so working at 150 feet is hard work . |
| 9 | mid next week and then give you a day or so to look at it . |
| 10 | Forms which are not attached to the coast or only attached at one end seem to orientate themselves , some at right angles to the resultant like attached forms and some parallel to the resultant for reasons which remain uncertain . |
| 11 | Mary Lovell , who has arranged the meeting , said that as well as fund raising a support group would identify patients in the area , find people willing to sit with a patient at their home to give carers a break , and provide volunteers to drive people to the hospice or generally help at the hospice . |
| 12 | Steve Chapman says they run courses for beginners and he would advise youngsters to learn properly … they can go on and progress or just stay at whatever level they want … a lot depends on budget … |
| 13 | The radial shields are distinct separated or just touching at their distal ends , and irregularly triangular nearly as wide as broad . |
| 14 | There is also the danger with sending a letter that people may misread it — or just look at it and not read it properly . |
| 15 | If time permits , a detour is well worth the effort to sample , or just look at , some of the finest gritstone routes in the area . |
| 16 | Plodding upwards , looking straight ahead of me or hardly looking at all , I was conscious suddenly of something on either side , looked to the right and the left . |
| 17 | At school leaving age , parents who had previously been able to cope with a child attending or possibly boarding at a special school are faced with the continuing prospect of full time life with their mentally handicapped son or daughter who may be unable to find a place in a training centre or enter full time education . |
| 18 | Turnover in the country 's 67,450 pubs is static or slightly declining at around £16.6 billion a year . |
| 19 | Even their reports , which before the war would have been held together by close logic and the normal sense of what was being said , are now things of numbered paragraphs ( the British Library report cited earlier has sections with triple numbers , such as 9.6.1. and even the conclusions of chapters have introductions ) with no style or overall understanding at all . |
| 20 | Or does it mean that you have somehow glimpsed the anguish in me , or even guessed at the cause ? |
| 21 | Another suggestion was that the electrolysis caused the liquid level to drop as more of the liquid turned into gas ; this exposed the top of the palladium above the liquid surface and gas began to leak out , releasing in a rush the considerable energy that had been stored with the trapped deuterium , sending the temperature up above the melting point ( 1554 degrees Celsius ) or even boiling at 3000 degrees . |
| 22 | At the same time , however , it should be recognized that not all parties retain their vitality , or even survive at all , that new parties emerge , and may quickly become powerful , as happened with the socialist parties in Europe , and that parties may change their character and their policies without necessarily changing their names . |
| 23 | If they stop and pause they may well urinate or even defecate at that spot , which is likely to be not only illegal , but also . |
| 24 | This went directly against Stirling 's concept of the role of his men , which had still not been clearly understood or even accepted at headquarters . |
| 25 | This was quite conscious on my part , but I was too proud to mention it to anyone or even to hint at any such thing . |
| 26 | Without moving or even looking at his new escort , Jimmy said : ‘ If he wants to start a fight in here , I 'm ready to oblige . ’ |
| 27 | Or even looking at it very closely . |
| 28 | I did not know enough about painting to recognise it , or even guess at its value , but in the present-day crazy art market even a relatively modern painting might well be very valuable , and this one was apparently worth the trouble and risk that Ewen Mackay had taken . |
| 29 | Diana 's refusal to speak to , or even look at her husband has outraged hosts . |
| 30 | The way she looked at them was odd , because there was no story here as yet , no drama whose next development or twist of plot or big scene we were all awaiting ; remember , they had not yet met or even looked at each other . |