Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at the [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her fingers plucked at the air until Thérèse reached out and held them in her own . |
| 2 | On their way to the Lion d'Or , where they were to meet Jack , Iris and Melissa passed old women knitting and gossiping in doorways or leaning out of windows , young women sauntering along with babies in perambulators , and leather-clad youths astride shiny motorbikes parked at the kerbside while they chatted up their mini-skirted girls . |
| 3 | He glanced down at her , his dark eyes crinkling at the corners as he smiled in a way that made her heart turn a tiny somersault . |
| 4 | There was a delay between the time the ring started to glow and the point at which the glowing reached its peak , because light from the near side of the ring arrived at the earth while light from the far side was still on its way . |
| 5 | And then we as the form teacher sits why ca n't the kids look at the reports as well ? |
| 6 | Ian Hollingsbee worked at the hospital before it closed 4 years ago . |
| 7 | She stretched out her hand to click on the bedside light , checked her watch , then lay back , panic subsiding , her eyes staring at the ceiling while the terrible immediacy of the dream began to fade , recognized for what it was , an old spectre returning after all these years , conjured up by the events of the night and by the reiteration of the word ‘ murder ’ which , since the Whistler had begun Iris work , seemed to murmur sonorously on the very air . |
| 8 | The reporter signed off , and Kathleen stared at the screen as Jack 's image was replaced by the film that had been running . |
| 9 | No oranges will taste the same as those we ate on t hose Saturday mornings , saving the peel to throw at the screen when Roy Rogers brought out his guitar to serenade Dale Evans across a Texas campfire that was flickering in an enchanted cave in a Manchester street . |
| 10 | It only improved in the last years of the nineteenth century with the company 's realization of a profitable traffic in middle-class commuters living at the seaside while working in Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 11 | His rustiness showed at the point when he was asked to accelerate . |
| 12 | Unaware of her scrutiny , Penry lay full length , guernsey and shoes discarded , his long , bare feet crossed at the ankles as they hung over the arm of the sofa . |
| 13 | Danielle hammered at the door until a face peeped out of the window . |
| 14 | Leicester 's injury crisis came at the double when defender Richard Smith was carried off a minute after the break — and another trainee Neil |
| 15 | It is not defined how an opportunity should be used , nor can the head or the teacher know at the outset whether any development or new insight will emerge . |
| 16 | Rima looked at the sun as it hung above the mountain tops . |
| 17 | There you are look the fast the r the number changes to yellow and the colours come at the bottom when you normal |
| 18 | Lina , her mother Dolores , and old Abuelo stood at the door as the congregation filed in , gossiping and excited , as the band played and the organist competed with it . |
| 19 | The operator will keep this beam aimed at the target while the missile , which has sensitive detectors at its back end , will steer down the centre of the beam . |
| 20 | A curtain of dripping water spat at the bonnet as the darkness of the tunnel engulfed us , the sound of the engine louder now and a sense of finality as the rock walls closed about us . |
| 21 | I also suggested that Britons should be urged not to ask for a chance to look at the remains until the situation improves . |
| 22 | Seb arrived at the cottage as the half-gipsy girl was leaving and asked her what she had said to Anna . |
| 23 | But Neath 's recent revival continued at the Gnoll when they ran in six tries and effectively ended Bridgend 's hopes of winning the Division One title . |
| 24 | I 'll probably have to do me tour of the quayside to start at the beginning where we went |
| 25 | Another intriguing question is whether people congregated at the Cocks because it was a crossroads or because a public house there provided warmth . |
| 26 | Figure 5 b shows how the system of Fig. 5 a would appear to an observer located at the Sun if the line-of-sight makes an angle of 16° with the major axis of the bar : this is the configuration that gives the best agreement with the data . |
| 27 | Thérèse flew at the washing-up while Léonie clattered coffee and tisane on to the silver tray and took it through into the white salon . |
| 28 | The woman looked at the graves as though she would like to open them . |
| 29 | Huy nagged at the problem until , unable to solve it , he became drowsy . |
| 30 | Kevin looked at the policeman as he leaned to accept the proffered match which he was shielding with his fingers . |