Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hampshire who 's been er umpiring at point now trots back to square leg because the point area is becoming rather heavily populated at the moment with a very square gully and er an even squarer point , cover point . |
| 2 | It is a fitting conclusion that God , who has so clearly guided at every stage , should set his seal on the marriage in the deep love of Isaac for Rebekah . |
| 3 | It has so far overcome at the political level the doctrinal and organizational divisions between protestants . |
| 4 | Excellent though Johnson has so far proven at the explorer 's notes , Boswell threatens to outdo him regarding Raasay . |
| 5 | Hyperactive and overactive young children often can not concentrate long enough to sit at the table and so teaching this is a very important part of learning to control them generally . |
| 6 | The pattern of attacks has not really changed at all ; the Iraqis go for the Iranian oil tankers on the shuttle from Kharg Island to Larak Island , and the Iranians then retaliate with a burst of rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun fire against almost any vessel unaccompanied by a warship . |
| 7 | But any ( unmoving ) object placed between the half-silvered mirror and the screen will now occupy a larger area of the image and therefore appear either to have grown larger , as if swelling , or to have come closer to the camera , even though it has not actually moved at all . |
| 8 | I was wearing a large theatrical ring with an enormous ‘ emerald ’ surrounded by paste diamonds and he bent more closely to look at it . |
| 9 | Would n't you just love it if you knew guys jerked off just looking at you ? ’ |
| 10 | He flicked his own eyes towards the rear seat , and his heart leapt as the black man 's eyes narrowed slightly then glanced at the figure in the back . |
| 11 | Tom Shone , writing in the Sunday Times , was also struck far from dumb by Mr Meades ' novel : ‘ This novel bristles , like a Swiss army knife , with an array of pre-emptive critical barbs , with the result that there 's no abuse you can hurl at it which it has n't already hurled at itself . |
| 12 | Starting at the top of the bank , cut out a rough sloping path to bottom , slightly above intended step levels , using scale drawing to let you know how deep to dig at any point |
| 13 | Marcus went white and jerked round sharply to look at the figure behind him . |
| 14 | Yeah hold on just looking at something right , three little ducks |
| 15 | If you have decided not only to start at the starboard end , but also to tack onto port as soon as possible , then a different set of priorities apply . |
| 16 | I do n't think I 'd ever really looked at him , to be honest . |
| 17 | I left the industry in the early Seventies and came back here to work at the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry . |
| 18 | The 1350s had seen relatively little fighting at an ‘ official ’ level , but the decade had witnessed the growth , in both numbers and size , of bodies of soldiers who , although sometimes finding local employment , more often than not roamed the countryside in search of adventure and the easy pickings of war . |
| 19 | he came round here swearing at |
| 20 | And there are people , places , history in this country I 'd never even guessed at , though I sometimes feel I know them anyway . ’ |
| 21 | She 'd never really looked at it before ; it was too old and familiar . |
| 22 | From Wiggen there is a postbus service to Marbach and Schangnau ( Official Timetable No 460. 50 ) and this also continues along the road which turns off sharply left at Schangnau , leading along the bank of the Emme to Bumbach and Kemmeriboden . |
| 23 | Well , she 'd lost her bonus now , she observed ruefully to herself as the tall dark stranger turned once more to look at her and remarked in a scathing tone of voice , ‘ I would say that , considering the state your car 's in , about the only thing it 's good for is to be used as a battering-ram . ’ |
| 24 | A former actor , Cooke started work on the book after growing ever more frustrated at the lack of decent roles . |
| 25 | At [ another ] desk sat Winston doing similar lists in red ink , sipping whisky and soda , getting redder and redder , rising and going out often to glare at the machine himself , hunching his shoulders , bowing his head like a bull about to charge . ’ |
| 26 | She turned back quickly to look at him . |
| 27 | She turned back twice to look at him , but he did not turn round at all . |
| 28 | Then you usually lie there just staring at the ceiling , thinking about everything that could go wrong . |
| 29 | I mean now there 's a couple of people quibbling about actually paying at the that we did . |
| 30 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |