Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level . |
| 2 | Yes , I c I was fortunate to be able to carry on at the same place . |
| 3 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
| 4 | It should have calmed her , gazing down at the burbling river , should have helped her to think about the problem uppermost in her mind ; but it was impossible to concentrate , knowing that he was close by . |
| 5 | He paused only the once , gazing down at the burnt meat that had been his friend and comrade for so long . |
| 6 | Not by someone else stepping in at the last moment . |
| 7 | Behind this board ( called a pathfinder ) is the start boat which motors along at the same speed as the board . |
| 8 | In the classical theory of general relativity one can not predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity . |
| 9 | Eddie was staring at her with eyes as hard as granite but all she said was , ‘ You 'll have to go in at the front door . |
| 10 | No need for us all to go in at the deep end . ’ |
| 11 | They gazed down at the innocent football being kicked back and forth against the wall outside , the thwack of the ball booming in the street amongst the traffic noise . |
| 12 | The oriental gazed down at the broken body of his defeated enemy . |
| 13 | In an uncomfortable silence Nathaniel Sherman and the others gazed down at the dead buffalo cow . |
| 14 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 15 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 16 | Dealers were expected to get these cards filled in at the same time as fulfilling their quotas of business , but nobody had time . |
| 17 | ‘ The ambition is certainly not to go along at the existing size , growing by 5 per cent a year . |
| 18 | They reached Airman 's Grave and paused together beside its perimeter wall , gazing in at the poignant tribute to one victim of a long-ago conflict , though not as long-ago , it occurred to Derek , as the conflict which had recently extended its crabbed old hand to touch their lives . |
| 19 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 20 | ‘ Less aggro signing on at the Social Security . ’ |
| 21 | That tradition lives on at the Banzai Pipeline , not so much the Wembley Stadium of surfing as its Coliseum . |
| 22 | Witcher gaped down at the smoking hob in his chest . |
| 23 | He said , ‘ I 'm going to pull in at the next layby . |
| 24 | Outside two young men peered in at the lighted women with their bottles and Jonquil 's cans of Carlsberg . |
| 25 | She peered down at the dark water in the basin below . |
| 26 | ‘ Mummy will be cross , ’ she murmured , wrinkling her nose as she peered down at the long tear . |
| 27 | Then she paused and peered down at the writhing thread . |
| 28 | ‘ They 're going to come in at the far end . ’ |
| 29 | Those who must let them enter do not like the work , for they fear what sidles in at the same time — the jealousies , the old rows and the suspicion of old fraud . |
| 30 | Wycliffe had been booked in at the one hotel which remained open through the year . |