Example sentences of "[adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ PC. 2. ] leered intimidatingly at the guy , who had no comment to make . |
| 2 | I do not wish you to violate your oath of secrecy or your conscience but , ’ and he tuned to look eagerly at the Bishop , ‘ with His Lordship 's permission , I would like to take you aside and quietly ask you one question ? |
| 3 | Although he kept looking up eagerly at the sky , it was obvious that he could see nothing . |
| 4 | Now he sat up in bed and looked eagerly at the different handwritings . |
| 5 | His lips sucked eagerly at the golden liquid . |
| 6 | Was he clutching too eagerly at every such evidence ? |
| 7 | She looked up eagerly at the sound of footsteps , but then , as she saw the two women , with an almost human expression of disappointment she turned her head away and with a heavy sigh lowered her head to her paws . |
| 8 | Back in the Harp , Irishmen stared eagerly at her photo . |
| 9 | I imagine it perhaps starting as one , and then escalating , as Serafin waits , smiling eagerly at her pupil , and Summerchild hunts back through his life for the required circumstances , covering his retreat with bursts of fire as he goes . |
| 10 | The young boy still stood like a soldier , holding the reins of the horses , his eyes looking eagerly at the piles of steaming dung obligingly dropped by both Philomel and Cranston 's mount . |
| 11 | Either that or the better-heeled locals enjoy female singers wailing purposefully at their table and moving away only when handed money . |
| 12 | During its service life it served in Egypt , Aden and Nairobi as well as in the UK ( eg at No 204 AFS , Driffield ) . |
| 13 | Wigglers with a high K value can produce a spontaneous spectrum rich in harmonics , and stimulated emission can be induced — eg at the third or fifth harmonic . |
| 14 | There were also difficulties for staff who undertook priority work for such matters as public enquiries , and required access at times when the Registry was closed , eg at lunchtime and hours outside the normal working day . |
| 15 | To maintain the continuity of movement on the screen from shot to shot , the girl 's walk along the path should be recorded from camera positions which are all within the ‘ 180 degree zone ’ on the same side of the path , eg at A and B. If shot 2 is taken from C , the audience becomes confused as the girl appears to have reversed her direction compared with shot 1 . |
| 16 | The frequency of a particular kind of syntactic structure ( say a relative clause ) will probably be less important than the fact that that structure tends to occur in a particular position in the sentence ( eg at the end , or at the middle ) . |
| 17 | 2 A noun qualified by the genitive , eg at a yard 's distance . |
| 18 | Our costs are : 1 ) secretarial and postage — the distribution of information to members ; 2 ) production and distribution of publicity material , eg at bike events ; 3 ) subscriptions to organisations working in Scotland for the interests of cycling ; 4 ) travel expenses to our Council meetings , which are held four times a year . |
| 19 | Our costs are : 1 ) secretarial and postage — the distribution of information to members ; 2 ) production and distribution of publicity material , eg at bike events ; 3 ) subscriptions to organisations working in Scotland for the interests of cycling ; 4 ) travel expenses to our Council meetings , which are held four times a year . |
| 20 | Our costs are : 1 ) secretarial and postage — the distribution of information to members ; 2 ) production and distribution of publicity material , eg at bike events ; 3 ) subscriptions to organisations working in Scotland for the interests of cycling ; 4 ) travel expenses to our Council meetings , which are held four times a year . |
| 21 | Production and distribution of publicity material ( eg at bike events ) ; |
| 22 | It is usual to make specific provision for service of such notices , eg at the last known home address of a partner , in a way that will afford evidence that it has been duly given ( eg by registered delivery , entry in the firm 's post book etc ) . |
| 23 | In these anti-avoidance provisions , the relevant test for a " UK customer " is that he is normally resident in the UK and they can therefore apply even if he is physically outside the UK at the relevant time ( eg at the non-UK office concerned ) . |
| 24 | Yawning ponderously , he put Clytemnestra outside the back door and while he waited for her , stood staring emptily at the cloudless , star-filled sky . |
| 25 | Months later , when Marie had departed , Louis is said to have paused nostalgically at Brouage on his way to Paris after marrying the Spanish Infanta at St Jean-de-Luz . |
| 26 | Everyone was chuckling nostalgically at the thought of the Magistrate , who was very likely dead by now . |
| 27 | At a time when forces were inexorably at work in Britain itself to produce the bureaucratic form of government we know today , there flourished in the empire a governing ethos which , with its emphasis on character rather than training in its practitioners , its primitive notions of justice , its exaltation of the autonomous agent unhindered by outside control , its demand for loving awe from the governed , was unmistakably the product of an earlier age . |
| 28 | Actually , she opened with Mozart 's scena Misera , dove son which tested her somewhat at the top of the stave , but there followed arias from Manon , Don Pasquale and La Forza del Destino which she gave with commanding conviction , variety and characterisation . |
| 29 | His immediate superior and his superintendent had departed ten minutes before for a conference at Lewes and he was more than somewhat at a loss . |
| 30 | Foreign policy tended to be the area where Churchill kept full Cabinet somewhat at arm 's length , as Anthony Seldon notes : |