Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [coord] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clinton sat down beside the slop bucket and smiled at the two men . |
| 2 | I sat by the fire and read the file twice , then I went back into the kitchen , made myself some more tea and a chicken sandwich and sat at the table , eating the sandwich and thinking about things . |
| 3 | His eye fell on it for the first time as it sprang onto the marble plinth and clutched at the neck of the vase to steady itself . |
| 4 | He took out a clasp knife and sawed at the nut . |
| 5 | Hundreds of people were there and I only saw the Queen at the beginning when she came out with Prince Philip and the Queen Mother and stood at the head of the terrace whilst a band played the National Anthem . |
| 6 | He followed her , but stopped in the living room doorway and looked at the room . |
| 7 | Mrs Blakey , recognizing that something was wrong , rapped sharply on the landing window and beckoned at the children . |
| 8 | He 'd auctioned his wine cellar and chuckled at the £28,000 it made . |
| 9 | He shivered at the ‘ yip , yip ’ of a fox carried by the cool night wind and jumped at the screech of the huge bats which flickered up and down the castle walls . |
| 10 | Dickinson half-rose and screamed at the man but the plane lumbered on seeming to spread itself with deliberate stupidity right across his path . |
| 11 | I left them as I approached No. 6 Commando positions and stood at the side of the road and watched them all pass by . |
| 12 | Still on his knees , Grant raised the shotgun and , ignoring the protest from his injured bicep , worked the cocking mechanism and fired at the nightmarish , clawing figure before him . |
| 13 | Adam sat on the bank among the bulrushes and the great , pale , leathery hosta leaves and looked at the house with its canopy of roses and honeysuckle , the martins ' nest under the eaves , the long terrace with Zeus in his various avatars and his loves disporting themselves along the flint wall . |
| 14 | So we cashed an endowment policy and called at the Cleveland Garage where we bought a gleaming black and chrome palace on wheels , a Standard Vanguard , for £240 . |
| 15 | She went over to the vegetable patch and looked at the earth for a while . |
| 16 | He blew out his fat , purpled cheeks , dug his hands deep in his breeches pockets and looked at the sky with a martyred air . |
| 17 | As a small boy , growing up in Liverpool , I stood at the Pier Head and marvelled at the huge Atlantic liners berthed at the world 's largest floating landing-stage . |
| 18 | Fair-haired Jews from Moscow and Leningrad mingled with olive-skinned Georgians to read the Cyrillic slogans welcoming them and then sank down in rows of plastic chairs or gazed at the panoramic photograph of Jerusalem covering an entire wall . |
| 19 | The synthetic probe ( T 2 AG 3 ) 4 was produced on an Applied Biosystem DNA synthesizer and labeled at the 5' end with ( γ 32 P ) ATP by using T4 polynucleotide kinase under the conditions recommended by the enzyme supplier ( Bethesda Research Laboratories ) . |
| 20 | He pulled his wings back for speed , leaned into the wind to gain maximum drive and stooped down upon them , the air thunderous in his wings as , with talons thrust forward , he thumped the first straight to its death among the wet beach rocks and tore at the other viciously before it squawked and fled to safety in the shadows of the cliff . |
| 21 | He picked up the glass case and looked at the bird reflectively . |
| 22 | But regarding wages and hours they were all taken by the executive council and debated at the national joint committee with the employers . |
| 23 | Princess Anne herself is a former three-day event world champion and competed at the l976 Montreal Olympics . |
| 24 | Her distraught South African fiance Cuan Cronje had planned to accompany the two women on their safari trip but cancelled at the last minute . |
| 25 | The detective , whose name and rank have not been given , is a member of the Essex force and worked at the Brentwood office of the No 5 Regional Crime Squad , covering a large area of East Anglia and the South-east . |
| 26 | With a small grim smile of satisfaction , he went back to the utility room and looked at the power switches . |
| 27 | Peggy sat down at the kitchen table and looked at the mail . |
| 28 | She slammed back the driving seat and looked at the unfamiliar dashboard with all its foreign signals . |
| 29 | They went up the hot , winding back streets behind Des Voeux and ate at the California , a neon nightclub-restaurant . |
| 30 | He tore open the cupboard door and peered at the tiny porthole of glass on the front of the central heating boiler . |