Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The weir at Melrose Cauld on the Tweed has been rebuilt to a dangerous design and is no longer considered safe to shoot at any point .
2 It made me feel funny looking at that hair , and I did n't like it .
3 Seaward there was nothing but a pearly opalescence which , though it seemed likely to vanish at any moment , effectively blocked out sea and sky .
4 Why had her aunt seen fit to ring at that moment ?
5 The trash , getting ready to protest at this change in plans and then his jaw dropping at his first sight of Lucy ; getting into the cab with him , knowing what she was doing but somehow feeling that she was watching it all from somewhere else .
6 The lectures which he delivered in America on this visit are not of crucial critical significance and , like other addresses of the same period , they are chiefly remarkable for the fact that he felt able to talk at some length about himself and his work — as if he realized that audiences came to see him , rather than hear anything he might care to say .
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