Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 2 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 3 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 4 | As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course . |
| 5 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 6 | Peter Suvarov smiled , his eyes crinkling up at the corners and his bitter mouth relaxing , and handed her a handkerchief . |
| 7 | Pauline 's wide , full mouth turned up at the corners . |
| 8 | ‘ He was going to hit you , ’ she said , and her mouth turned down at the corners . |
| 9 | ‘ We got rid of an old woman and replaced him with a younger one , ’ Fergus said , mouth turned down at the corners , staring over his whisky tumbler and across the room to where his wife was talking to Antonia . |
| 10 | She was frowning , deep lines appearing between her eyebrows , mouth drawn down at the edges so that instead of a classically good-looking slim English Rose in her late twenties , she looked faded , years older than her real age , and shrewish . |
| 11 | Carrie looked at him and saw his mouth turning down at the corners . |
| 12 | The marquis 's lips turned down at the corners . |
| 13 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |
| 14 | Ruthven looked up at the birds wheeling and twisting against the blue sky . |
| 15 | And from the depths of the pool little yellow frogs stared up at the nomes . |
| 16 | McDunn 's mouth twists down at the edges ; he sucks through his teeth , and for some reason I feel encouraged . |
| 17 | Her mouth picked up at the corners and she just had to laugh . |
| 18 | If fixing outside the recess , you will need to add a minimum of 10cm ( 4in ) to the width of the reveal to prevent light seeping through at the sides of the blind . |
| 19 | Currently , records back to 1986 are on the system , and retrospective cataloguing will be carried out from data picked up at the loans desk when books are issued , so that we will have records for all material in current use . |
| 20 | Lever pointed out at the mountains . |
| 21 | Zen gazed up at the shelves loaded with rows of books as uniform as bricks . |
| 22 | You got a very good committee , dedicated committee erm who , you see the young trainees were sent to the technical colleges and you see , erm some of them did go on if they graduated to Stanford Hall , but I mean those that went to technical college , we used to have to get the committee to sit in at the examinations . |
| 23 | I cast one longing glance up at the cliffs of Coire Ardair , where the sun was glancing off the icy tips of gleaming rock , and I knew that next time I 'd get the sucker . |
| 24 | But more complex emotions creep in at the fringes of the tale , where the grandfather 's ostracism of the man his daughter loves leads to several fraught emotional scenes . |
| 25 | Maggie glanced over at the Lawlers who were about a dozen feet from her . |
| 26 | Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows . |
| 27 | Speaking to journalists , the former deputy Labour leader on Liverpool council hit out at the police decision to press ahead with the action against him . |
| 28 | We huddled in its dark ruinous rooms sipping bitter tea while gusts of sand blew in at the doorways . |
| 29 | No one noticed for a month , until the contamination showed up at the filters on the primary water circuit . |
| 30 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |