Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Honey looked at the plain plump person with the smug suet-pudding face who was sitting across the room . |
| 2 | Nicosia : The Cisco index closed at a new high of 185.6 , a gain of 2.1 points on the week . |
| 3 | Miss Hazelwood sat at a high centre desk , seemingly reading a book . |
| 4 | Mrs. Hennessy looked at the open suitcase . |
| 5 | Richard Langton stared at the young girl before him . |
| 6 | If I understood him correctly , this is an aspect of what David Parkin described at the 1973 Association of Social Anthropologists Conference as Personal Anthropology . |
| 7 | When Ruth and Miss Beard arrived at the rear door of the house , the carriage was already waiting . |
| 8 | After Better Books Ginsberg read at the Architectural Association , and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Dover Street . |
| 9 | Kathleen Lavender stared at the three envelopes , two white , one brown , one long , two small . |
| 10 | Neil Sissons studied at the Royal College of Music , before becoming organ scholar of Worcester College , Oxford . |
| 11 | Lucy Telford drove at a steady pace , her mind occupied by the task set for her by Aunt Bertha . |
| 12 | Also new for is a range-topping automatic version of the Vento VR priced at a competitive £20 , |
| 13 | Colonel Moore had left his card and the next morning , at a careful eleven o'clock , Colonel Hope called at the rented villa on the lakeside . |
| 14 | Stefanos Manos remained at the National Economy Ministry , but now assumed responsibility for Finance also , in a move to facilitate the process of economic reform . |
| 15 | There is talk of a billion dollar stabilisation fund for Poland and a large bridging loan for Hungary , to be organised jointly by Western banks , the EC and the IMF , together with aid of other kinds — all this on top of the billion dollar package inaugurated at the economic summit in Paris in July . |
| 16 | Li Shai Tung stared at the urbane , highly-sophisticated man standing at his side and laughed briefly , bemused that Shepherd could see himself in that brutal portrait . |
| 17 | Then US Open champion Pete Sampras fell at the same hurdle to Thierry Champion . |
| 18 | En route from the crush bar Joshua paused at the palatial Gents . |
| 19 | ELISABETH DANZIGER STOOD AT THE OPEN window and watched the gulls swoop round the house , fly straight out to sea and then drop suddenly for prey . |
| 20 | Even Ken Lomax and Ray Shepherd seemed at a vast distance from them . |
| 21 | While the symbols of civilization processed with full panoply of State through the streets of London , out on the eastern marshes the North Sea nudged at the coastal defences which had been hastily shored up after the calamity just four months before . |
| 22 | Several hours after their withdrawal , the 11 soldiers and Dr Mardell arrived at the Serbian town of Banja Koviljaca . |
| 23 | Her butterfly cap sat at a saucy angle on her black hair . |
| 24 | Alison Rubenstein discovered at an early age that if you want to get on in the world and have a good career , hard work is not enough — qualifications can also be a great help . |
| 25 | At half past two this afternoon Mr Cruikshanks injected at the crural arteries 5 pints of Oil of Turpentine mixed with Venice Turpentine and Vermillion . |
| 26 | In the kitchen Mrs Blakey comforted her and Mr Blakey sat at the scrubbed table stirring sugar into a cup of tea . |
| 27 | Sister Rosario looked at the pinched face of Maura Ryan and her heart went out to the child . |
| 28 | The first skirmish over the national security issue came at a closed hearing on Jan. 11 when it was reported that the prosecution had accused the lawyer of one of Noriega 's co-defendants of improperly disclosing classified information when making an earlier request for access to National Security Council records . |
| 29 | DNA was isolated from the reaction mixtures and checked for its susceptibility to cleavage by restriction endonuclease Eco RII , which fails to cleave CC A / T GG sites methylated at the inner cytosine residue . |
| 30 | Mr Christopher said at a joint news conference in Damascus with Syria 's foreign minister , Farouq al-Shara , after talks with President Hafez al-Assad : ‘ President Assad emphasised his commitment to the process of direct negotiations that were launched in Madrid and welcomed the US role as a full partner in the process . ’ |