Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [coord] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Write your plans below and evaluate at the next C.P.S. |
| 2 | Robyn ground her teeth together and glared at him . |
| 3 | She closed her eyes grimly and pointed at the table . |
| 4 | As she taxied in to the small civilian terminal , Adam watched the three fighter planes ease their pointed noses skyward and climb at over thirty thousand feet a minute . |
| 5 | Mrs Stych opened her eyes slowly and looked at him as if he had gone mad . |
| 6 | For the first time we 've had to get our heads down and look at what we 're doing . |
| 7 | The kids at my new school all went round in little gangs , spoiling for a fight — nothing serious , just pushing other kids over and jeering at them . |
| 8 | One of his reasons for leaving the Navy had been his dislike of the social relations between officers and ratings — take three paces backwards and shout at them . |
| 9 | An office colleague to whom I had told my story , went to Lochinver by train and bus a few months later and stayed at the same cottage . |
| 10 | He stared down at his knees , then stretched his legs out and gazed at his calves and feet . |
| 11 | ‘ It was your — ’ He cut off his own words abruptly and stared at her woodenly as if frustrated because she was right . |
| 12 | So uncovered their eyes again and peered at the sun-god through their lashes . |
| 13 | She began to turn the pictures round and flap at the mantelpiece with a duster . |
| 14 | The museum man placed his fingertips together and nodded at Davide as he took trouble to explain , and the colour flowed back from Davide 's cheeks and he slipped the coin into his pocket , with its two faces that were neither mirror images of one another , nor replicas , but a false double , an inexact repeat . |
| 15 | Margaret of Carlisle , 47 , was widowed two years ago and knew at first hand the financial problems that can arise from the sudden death of a loved one and the trauma of finding that her partner was inadequately insured . |
| 16 | Inspect plants regularly and spray at the first signs of attack . |
| 17 | But Malcolm Brodie , who must have been 80 yards away and looking at the player 's back , could say the goal was quite rightly disallowed . |
| 18 | As they stepped out from behind the tree , a figure , walking rapidly and glancing back over his shoulder , stepped off the pavement a few yards up and came at them on a collision course . |
| 19 | I think he held the reins back and smiled at the camera ; so long since he did it . |
| 20 | Instead he took the opportunity to read the files again and look at extracts from the visual record — films taken throughout the eight years of Kim 's stay within the Recruitment Project . |
| 21 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 22 | An " unseen " exam paper allows different examiners to mark the same answers independently and to arrive at a fairly consistent and impartial assessment of the candidate 's overall performance and potential . |
| 23 | He seemed fascinated by his hands ; he was flexing the fingers rhythmically and gazing at them as if they could tell him something important about himself . |
| 24 | He pulled his hands away and stared at Lord Henry with wild eyes . |
| 25 | Philip opened his desk drawer to take the medals out and look at them again . |
| 26 | Julia felt too tired and afraid to speak , but she lifted her heavy eyelids again and looked at him . |