Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For several minutes Morse looked down at the turbid , turgid river ; and his thoughts were as restless as the waters below him . |
| 2 | Programme assistant Ian Edgar stood in at the last minute . |
| 3 | As we entered the kitchen Pat looked up at the roof and the large gaping hole caused by a shell that had passed through two floors then smashed through the kitchen door , ending up in the garden . |
| 4 | Miss Honey looked carefully at the tiny girl with dark hair and a round serious face sitting in the second row . |
| 5 | The Rifleman stared at his enemy just as many of the crowd in the entrance hall stared up at the blood-soaked Rifleman . |
| 6 | The most surprising observation is that the spring bloom occurred almost at the same time in the Tromsø area and at Spitzbergen , approximately 10° further north . |
| 7 | These seating arrangements thus provided a visual reflection and reinforcement of the social divisions within the parish ; when Richard Gough set out at the end of the seventeenth century to write the history of his parish of Myddle in Shropshire , he decided that the most natural way to organize his account was to consider in turn the occupants of each pew in Myddle church . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the infinitely more cred KEN LIVINGSTONE cropped up at the Africa Centre for SUEDE 's sweaty showcase . |
| 9 | PAT Clinton hit back at the critics who jeered him after he retained his WBO flyweight title in Glasgow on Saturday . |
| 10 | While Miss Turner left halfway through to go on to another show , Miss Collins popped backstage at the end to congratulate the actress . |
| 11 | Mrs. Mounce looked down at the suitcase . |
| 12 | Gilberto Nieddu spat thoughtfully at the pigeons on the roof below . |
| 13 | Ross Aldridge looked back at the six deer . |
| 14 | Guitarist Simon Walker left right at the end of recording and so , as of a few weeks ago , we have a brand-new House Of Love guitarist — ex-Woodentop Simon Mawby , fresh from playing funky Chic-style stuff behind Jimmy Somerville , and now in the unenviable position of trying to learn the new album while compressing three guitar parts into one in order to play it live . |
| 15 | Dr Neil looked down at the bent blue-black head , and some idea of the enormous concession she was making to him struck home . |
| 16 | Li Shai Tung stared back at the boy for a moment , then looked down , chilled by what Ben had said . |
| 17 | ’ Li Shai Tung stared back at the hologram a moment longer , then , sighing , he plucked the scented sticks from the offering bowl , and threw them aside . |
| 18 | Li Shai Tung looked back at the pictures above the bed with new understanding . |
| 19 | He believes that such vast and unexpected escapes of sub-global meltwater might have occurred a number of times as the ice sheets broke up at the end the Ice Age . |
| 20 | technical management training aimed mainly at the farmer or manager . |
| 21 | With close to 100 entries , there were more Dexters than entries in all the other dairy breeds added together at the show . |
| 22 | It has a phosphor screen on the inside of the front glass face plate , and an electron gun tucked away at the bottom back corner . |
| 23 | THE WINTER RAINS arrived promptly at the end of January . |
| 24 | Aunt Margaret looked down at the round top of Victoria 's head with warm and tender eyes , her birdy head cocked on one side . |
| 25 | He was alert , poised on the balls of his feet , the submachine carbine held easily at the port , but ready for use if need be . |
| 26 | UNITED opened the scoring after only seven minutes when Robert Ritchie shot home at the back post after good work by new boy Keith Shields . |
| 27 | Mr Blair hit out at the bombers for giving such ‘ inadequate warnings . ’ |
| 28 | Lloyd beamed and a couple of the Dennison brothers laughed dutifully at the in-joke which went over me . |
| 29 | Mr Stokill looked approvingly at the finished job . |
| 30 | Grandson Richard stared down at the nome on his shoulder . |