Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at " in BNC.

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1 THE ULTIMATE teen movie , a sharp-edged black comedy which mercilessly swipes at adolescent angst , peer pressure , consumerism , and that old favourite , the generation gap .
2 The meal was finished , his father had returned to the newspaper , rather deflated at his family 's lack of appreciation of his vice-presidency , and his mother had finished her ice cream and was rising from the table .
3 This galloping course will suit his action and he is not badly treated at the weights on his best form .
4 It was a pathetic spectacle and to be honest I must confess to being more than a little annoyed at being trapped in a railway carriage and forced to listen to this poor soul lurching nearer to a grave in the gutter .
5 The type of batteries most favoured at present are either 1.5 volt AA pen-lights or the 9 volt PP3s .
6 Mr. Steed was duly registered at H.M.
7 She says that it 's good to have somewhere to swim at lunchtimes .
8 In 1987/88 , 80% of all modules were completed with full success — and 75% of the candidates successfully completed at least one module and therefore received a National Certificate .
9 ‘ Certificates issued ’ refers to the number of RETs issued to candidates who had successfully completed at least one module during the session .
10 This duly arrived and the five hour Test Programme has just been successfully completed at the farm strip at Weston Underwood where Midge is presently ‘ stationed ’ She has company too — her stable mate is a Tiger Moth : G-AMHF .
11 I think she is a little irritated at needing to be worried .
12 The Bishops of Rochester now mostly lived at their Palace at Rochester or Lambeth , the houses at Halling and Trottescliffe being allowed to decay owing to the expense of maintaining them .
13 A neatly printed card , discreetly placed at the hem of the embroidery , told that the contents of the case had been donated by Jurgen Danziger , in 1933 .
14 Golden lads and lasses had just breakfasted on golden toast , a little blackened at the edge in some cases , spread with golden shred or golden syrup .
15 The eggs were clear and had a diameter of between 0.6 and 0.9mm and mostly floated at the water surface .
16 At night , while John 's impatient body sleeps , I listen to the waves loosely slapping at the side of the stilled ship .
17 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 .
18 In much of this material there was little attempt to relate such antipathy and prejudice to a consistent and coherent theory of behaviour , but the assumption and arguments on which it was based can be seen as the origins of a racial nationalist ideology which was to be more rigorously formulated at a later date .
19 ‘ State Department officials were unavailable for comment , ’ the New York Times reported , thereby hinting at the source of the leak , but if the story had been aired as a trial balloon , it failed to lift off .
20 ‘ Zooming out ’ of what 's going on and commenting on it , without apportioning blame , may help defuse tension : ‘ Things seem to be getting a little heated at the moment . ’
21 Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties .
22 Any titbits would be humbly placed at my feet .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 I would rather stay at a good bed & breakfast than in several five-star hotels I could name .
26 For those who would rather stay at home
27 Many of the world 's travellers would rather stay at home .
28 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 ) .
29 There is little doubt that the coalition was returned to power mainly on Unionist votes , although this was not widely recognized at the time ; the Unionists had never won so many votes before , and it was perhaps natural to attribute their success to their new asset .
30 The European Community ( EC ) , for example , actually came into existence largely through an acute perception of French national interests by Jean Monnet , who was mainly responsible for creating the European Coal and Steel Community — the precursor of the Common Market — as a means of protecting French industry and especially French steel makers from their more efficient German competitors ; and it is widely recognized at the present time that national interests continue to play a major part in the debates and decisions of the Community .
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