Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] [adv] at " in BNC.

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1 Maxim turned his red-rimmed eyes at George winced with pain even at the feeble car light and shut them again .
2 There was a strong case for saving Thoresby for the nation , but unfortunately its future came into question just at the moment when all thoughts were focused on Brodsworth , near Doncaster , another Victorian house with an even more complete set of contents .
3 As he had expected , the sentry came to attention automatically at the suddenly terse voice .
4 An official , four soldiers , four children and two adults were injured as a truck driven by two Goajira Indians drove at speed directly at the presidential motorcade .
5 The Society also communicated with solicitors directly at regional level and on a variety of courses and conferences .
6 The first Arctic fox I had ever seen watched me as I arrived at Gullfoss late at night , then turned and headed off with its huge tail laid out behind it .
7 NORTHERN Ireland 's largest ever careers and higher education convention got under way today at Methodist College , Belfast .
8 Then he landed in Oxford just at the right time to go out to the factory and it was open , and you had to get your car as soon as you could and see that everything was all right .
9 We went to school together at St Clement Danes , an all-boys grammar school in West London , at the tail end of the period in which secondary education was split by the 11-plus into grammar schools for those who passed and secondary schools for the rest .
10 He looked at McCann then at Morton .
11 Alexander Vass smiled without compassion across at her .
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