Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heavy chainmail was gone ; he wore a long dark blue tunic , embroidered with silver thread and loosely belted at the waist . |
| 2 | On his way down to take part in an official inspection , Wycliffe had monitored reports on his car radio and so arrived at the scene of crime before his headquarters had got a team together . |
| 3 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 4 | He did not seem to like it very much either , but he was perfectly good-natured and only jibbed at the dressing up . |
| 5 | The USSR won decisively against all their serious rivals , Yugoslavia , the US and England , in the first five rounds and only slackened at the end when the gold medals were assured . |
| 6 | Charles complained of ‘ astigmatism ’ , and exaggeratedly squinted at the matrices , removing and putting back his glasses continually . |
| 7 | He brought with him a bottle of his own herbal remedy for fevers and scarcely looked at the baby before worrying about his fee . |
| 8 | Lucy Downes was in , and soon stood at the door : an attractive , slim , fair-haired woman in her early thirties , dressed in a summerish cotton suit of pale green , with a light-beige mackintosh over her left arm . |
| 9 | At a certain point , evidently prearranged , for he did n't consult Nenna and hardly glanced at the banks , Richard put about , switched off the engine and hauled it on board . |
| 10 | Andy Culshaw , the other trumpeter , studied at the Birmingham School of Music , while tubist Richard Sandland hails from Tamworth and also studied at the Royal College of Music . |
| 11 | He hit a hat-trick at Brighton last year and also scored at the Goldstone Ground , as a second-half substitute , earlier this season . |
| 12 | Sub-Prior Herluin , on his way to dine with Abbot Radulfus and the distinguished company at his lodging , and pleasantly gratified at the invitation , was confronted in mid-court with a meek petitioner in the shape of Tutilo , all duty and service , asking leave of absence to visit the Lady Donata at Longner . |
| 13 | The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 . |
| 14 | It 's gone into us , and we 've done it 's here that 's looked at it properly , and walked through the trees and even looked at every marking in the trees that were gon na come down . |
| 15 | ‘ Dead , ’ said Floy softly , and then looked at the Trees . |
| 16 | Robyn looked down at the black bin-liner in her hands , looked up to where he sat , registered the determined , quietly angry expression on his face and then looked at the fountain . |
| 17 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 18 | The arm hovered before the bookcase and then darted at a book end and retrieved a bound diary . |
| 19 | The car reversed into one warden , and then drove at the other , who had to jump onto the bonnet to avoid being hurt . |
| 20 | These are usually concealed and then flashed at the last moment , giving the prospective predator the impression that it is approaching a much larger animal and one that is staring straight at it in a defiant manner . |
| 21 | People gathered in groups outside the burger place ; others went to buy cigarettes from the Indian shop on the corner and then stood at the bus stop . |
| 22 | She rang his office , and then panicked at the secretary 's voice , and put the receiver down without speaking . |
| 23 | She went into the kitchen and tidied up , and then sat at the front window , watching people pass , hunched in her own disillusionment . |
| 24 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 25 | During his first two weeks in France he read no English newspaper and barely glanced at a French one . |
| 26 | Suddenly I felt homesick , even before I left , and quietly raged at the royal bastard 's devious plans . |
| 27 | ‘ Ah ! j'adore ça ’ , he said and never looked at a single picture . |
| 28 | Bolton , still smarting from a controversial refereeing decision that denied them a penalty and , they believe , victory at the County Ground at Swindon , had their opponents well and truly cornered at the start . |
| 29 | It ai n't just her face being all bashed up and that — it 's the way she did n't say nothing , but just stared at the floor . |
| 30 | For the first time the pupils did not work in six groups but just sat at the tables as they chose . |