Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysts are forecasting that Zeneca will make taxable profits of about £500 million in the current year , with ICI expected to come in at around £250 million . |
| 2 | At times like that , you call on your mates , and Kenny Everett kindly got us out of a spot of trouble there and agreed to come on at short notice . |
| 3 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 4 | She tried to grin back at him , but suddenly , unaccountably , her teeth were chattering and she gave an enormous , involuntary shudder . |
| 5 | Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey . |
| 6 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 7 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |
| 8 | I tried grinning up at him . |
| 9 | She would have been quite content simply to stare at the house for hours , and she was still sitting there when Alain opened her door and bent to look in at her . |
| 10 | Broussac , on our way home , stopped to jeer in at the lighted windows of Master Ferrebourg 's office . |
| 11 | She tried to look down at her feet , and could only just see them . |
| 12 | At a wall corner I stopped to look back at Thwaite 's collection of stone houses shimmering in the dale . |
| 13 | They stopped to look back at him . |
| 14 | ‘ Although Tara never is really dark , ’ said Caspar as they stopped to look back at the great shining edifice outlined against the sky . |
| 15 | She strained to look up at him . |
| 16 | Then my money ran out and I stopped going out at all . |
| 17 | The normal daily routine involved getting up at around 6am and stopping for a long lunch at midday in order to avoid the most intense heat . |
| 18 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 19 | Boxing Day morning was grey and overcast but the rain promised to hold off at least until the evening . |
| 20 | Two guys tried to break in at three in the morning , and they woke the neighbours . ’ |
| 21 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've lost four games , but have n't been playing that badly , whereas last season we got turned over at Aston Villa and Everton . |
| 23 | She seemed to light up at the idea . |
| 24 | Her son twisted to grin up at her from beneath his white cotton sunhat . |
| 25 | However , I made my position very clear to the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus sports hack , Mark Crowe , when he came sniffing round at the funeral . |
| 26 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
| 27 | He recalled his first day in the area , when he 'd stopped off at Conon Bridge to browse around a sporting store and listen to the gossip . |
| 28 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 29 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |
| 30 | The way he 'd looked down at her breasts so suddenly in that lift … oh , God , it made her tremble with heat and excitement just to remember it . |