Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lecturer visiting a student on teaching practice tells of being mistaken for a parent and being kept standing in a cold corridor while behind a closed door the head shouted and screamed at a tearful child . |
| 2 | As Charlie approached the Whitechapel Road , he stopped and stared at the frantic bustle taking place all around him . |
| 3 | Agrippa stopped and looked at a lonely bird shrieking above us as if it was a devil let loose to wander this lonely wilderness . |
| 4 | She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence . |
| 5 | I stopped and looked at the big house . |
| 6 | They stopped and wondered at the crude little pageant parked outside the cottage , stroking its paintwork and prying into the winches and traps . |
| 7 | When she had the hackles high on her shoulders , when she whined and scratched at the back door , then the house was watched . |
| 8 | While in Amritsar he visited and prayed at the Golden Temple , Sikhism 's most hallowed shrine which had been the subject in 1984 of an Army assault [ see pp. 33223-24 ] , in a gesture of reconciliation . |
| 9 | Managers came and went at an alarming rate ; there was Board Room take-over ; gates began to dwindle and the Palace were candidates for relegation from well before Christmas . |
| 10 | Modigliani , of course , spotted her at once and came and sat at the next table . |
| 11 | Nevertheless they mounted and rode at a good trot up the great road towards the north . |
| 12 | Behind them twenty-eight rank and file Lionisers exclaimed and marvelled at the quaint harbour beneath them , their thoughts torn between Dickens and murder . |
| 13 | Se the Whitbread Hop Farm 's colourful history unfold in this authentic insight into the lives and times of the people who lived and worked at the Beltring Farm — A nostalgic experience not to be missed ! ! |
| 14 | In May 1990 the privatization of 28 heavily indebted industrial companies was announced ; another 21 would be liquidated and 200 industrial companies controlled by Greek banks would be sold or liquidated at the next stage of privatization . |
| 15 | He turned and looked at the slender woman cowering in her chair . |
| 16 | Nicholson turned and looked at the other man contemptuously . |
| 17 | She turned and looked at the distant figure of Dorcas and her eyes narrowed . |
| 18 | The child stared towards it as if in recognition of something held in memory ; then she turned and looked at the old woman , who was sitting on the couch unlacing her boots , and she said , ‘ You have a garden . ’ |
| 19 | Cranston turned and glanced at the other hospitaller . |
| 20 | When I made no response he turned and gazed at the far line of coral reef that was marked by a fret of white breaking water . |
| 21 | Last weekend they huffed and puffed at the unbeaten league leaders Wasps and were within one try of blowing them down . |
| 22 | While she phoned the switchboard and requested that they page the cardiographer , Michael Barrington the orthopaedic SR arrived and glanced at the shattered stubs of the young man 's femurs . |
| 23 | Benjamin nodded and stared at the dying flames of the fire . |
| 24 | Vi nodded and smiled at the young soldier and the pale-faced young girl who stood beside him . |
| 25 | Idly she unravelled the muddle of paths , wandering past low , stunted railings , and dwarf ‘ Keep off the grass ’ signs sprouting from the balding turf ; past desolate putting greens ; past tightly-shuttered refreshment kiosks ; past the narrow lanes marked ‘ Men ’ and Women' that commenced at a modest distance from each other and wound through dark shrubbery to merge in a single , dripping tomb , divided by a wall . |
| 26 | Performance information can be viewed in real time or collected and archived at a single location to be used later for systems and capacity planning . |
| 27 | I enjoyed and suffered at the same time . ’ |
| 28 | We all worked and lived at the same place and it seemed pretty cool to me at the time , but it started to become more and more negative until it got to the point where I wanted to leave … and I realised that they would n't let me ! |
| 29 | In a fit of feverish activity Gould proceeded to publish a series of lectures and papers as quickly as he could possibly produce them ; on 25 August he exhibited and named at the Zoological Society six new species of kangaroo and presented his information on the bowerbirds ; on 8 September he read a paper at a scientific meeting on the extraordinary brush turkey , or Alectura , among a selection of others ; on 13 October he gave an account of the Ocellated leipoa ; on 10 November he exhibited at the Society 50 of his new Australian birds , which he characterised in subsequent meetings ; and so on , until he had presented all his new trophies from both the bird and animal kingdoms to the awestruck Zoological members . |
| 30 | Dhani presided and served at the same time . |