Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today I had three of them in the back of Armstrong , the ideal vehicle for such a job as a cab was unlikely to get moved along or clamped at a delicate , or indelicate , moment . |
| 2 | Surrounding himself with local knowledge was a form of entrenchment ; if you dig in and stare at a hill you can often persuade yourself you know what 's going on behind it . |
| 3 | For actually glancing down and looking at a clock |
| 4 | Something on the ground caught his eye and he bent down and looked at a small print in the soft earth . |
| 5 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
| 6 | Part-ex and all the rest of it , did the deal , negotiated , and said right what we want to do , is Saturday morning , she thinks she 's going to come down and look at a decent second-hand one , and I want you to take the part , take the brand new car off and all the rest of it , and then say take that one for a test drive , which is mine , all taxed up and gassed up and all the rest of it , and we 'll disappear in the moonlight . |
| 7 | One fan sang along and plucked at an imaginary guitar , but he turned out to be the roadie . |
| 8 | But Moose have got steadily better as they 've gone along and arrived at a winsome pop style not a million miles from Lloyd Cole . |
| 9 | Being a good and persuasive talker is a must for this work as you may have to get up and speak at a sales conference or at an agency presentation . |
| 10 | I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard . |
| 11 | They took the escalator up and settled at a table overlooking the fountain . |
| 12 | Julia Verity was looking to start a business by buying a house in Henley , doing it up and selling at a profit . |
| 13 | They would therefore be bunched up and arrive at a faster rate . |
| 14 | He got out and knocked at a window . |
| 15 | He cried out and grabbed at a nearby wall to steady himself . |
| 16 | All these readings were taken back and analysed at a fully equipped laboratory in Taunton . |
| 17 | And it think that — I mean I like to have , if you go back and look at a Rolling Stone when I was doing it , there are pages in there , I would say one third of all the pages in there , you would not even want to print today . |
| 18 | It is inevitable that tyres like that will blow out when travelling at a high speed . |