Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Broussac , on our way home , stopped to jeer in at the lighted windows of Master Ferrebourg 's office .
3 ‘ Although Tara never is really dark , ’ said Caspar as they stopped to look back at the great shining edifice outlined against the sky .
4 Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease .
5 She seemed to light up at the idea .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 And as Cram prepared to jump in at the deep end with a clash against Olympic 10,000m champion Khalid Skah in the BUPA International Festival of Running , race organiser Brendan Foster tipped his pal to rekindle memories of his glory days in his new event .
9 Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand .
10 For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would
11 Lorton wondered if he 'd chickened out at the last moment .
12 Alexei seemed to look down at the folder in his hand .
13 Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end .
14 She was cracking those damn peppermints in her back teeth to disguise the fact she 'd called in at the Oyster Bar on her way up . ’
15 ‘ We 're in luck , ’ said Jonna , as Ned came panting in at the doorway with an armful of heavily-foliaged twigs .
16 That opinion is absolutely in line with that expressed by the people of Kincardine and Deeside who thoroughly rejected opting out at the ballot box .
17 Next moment the swirling fog in the alley was suddenly lit to a brilliant white by the head lamps of the car which came roaring in at the far end .
18 Spalding and Miss Robinson were sent to the lift , told to get out at the second floor , turn right , and go to the rooms numbered 207 and 208 .
19 After all the signals of rejection she 'd sent out at the apartment — despite Marlin , despite the dangerous streets , despite the hour , despite their bitter history — she 'd come , bearing the gift of her body to his bed .
20 He was still suffering from jet-lag but opted to plunge in at the deep end against Monaghan .
21 The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below .
22 They turned to look up at the hastily nailed boards that had replaced the shattered windows .
23 All turned to look back at the door as the footsteps approached on the flagstones .
24 He covered seventy yards to gain the partial cover of the shrubbery , flung himself amongst the undergrowth , and turned to look back at the chateau .
25 They turned to look back at the emptiness they had crossed .
26 The leaves on the thorn trees were almost open , and when we turned to look back at the distance we 'd climbed , there were clusters of vivid green that trailed down the hillside and encompassed the village like waterweed .
27 I turned to look back at the softly gleaming , parallel surfaces converging towards an oblong of dimly lit structures , an oblong much taller and narrower than any doorway .
28 Involuntarily Wycliffe turned to look back at the house on stilts , but it was hidden by a bulge in the slope of the hill …
29 Graham grinned looking over at the two Art School girls , who were now sitting on the floor on the other side of the room , talking to each other .
30 When he craned to stare down at the crowds in the great square below the palace , his head moved so that it rested upon the parapet like a decoration .
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