Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His strong face , lined by age and illness , framed a pair of kindly eyes that softened at the sight of her . |
| 2 | They achieved this by combining two different methods : a longitudinal study , following the same children for four years from before they were able in read until they had been at school for two or three years ; and a training programme that looked at the effect of giving pre-school children specific training in categorising sounds . |
| 3 | The plateau we crossed before the final pyramid was hostile , the snow wind-beaten to a hard , glittering crust that squeaked at the approach of our boots and then gave a satisfying crunch as we went through it . |
| 4 | Marian made a bed of dry bracken for Hugh while Allen lit a fire and fetched water from a brook that ran at the foot of the bank on its way to swell the nightmare of the Swamp . |
| 5 | Marian made a bed of dry bracken for Hugh while Allen lit a fire and fetched water from a brook that ran at the foot of the bank on its way to swell the nightmare of the Swamp . |
| 6 | Stone House is the silent grave of an active industry that died at the turn of the present century . |
| 7 | The innocence that prevailed at the School concerning sexual matters was symbolised by the fig leaves which had been attached to the plaster casts of male nudes and which eventually the girls removed . |
| 8 | Once away from the railhead , however , the army was back in the age of Napoleon and moved at the pace of horse and man . |
| 9 | Benedict took the card and glanced at the name . |
| 10 | He opened his eyes and glanced at the clock beside his bed . |
| 11 | Ronni opened her eyes and stared at the moon , feeling her poor heart quiver inside her . |
| 12 | Nell raised her eyes and looked at the rest of the body ; and caught her breath . |
| 13 | She shut her eyes and tugged at the rope , sending the boat soaring high up over the scruffy , stinking little fair and the bare-headed people and the wide , comfortable , pleasure-loving river . |
| 14 | Ronni looked into his eyes and smiled at the compliment , inwardly shuddering as he took her in his arms and proceeded to lead her in time to the music . |
| 15 | He went and got his overcoat and put it on over his pyjamas and sat at the table smoking a cigarette . |
| 16 | Dönitz adjusted his glasses , took the first sheet of paper from the file , opened his mouth and bawled at the microphone as though it was the furthest sailor on the longest parade ground in the Third Reich . |
| 17 | Aaron sat on the roof and stared at the sky . |
| 18 | Hari made tea and sat at the table , her hands curled around the warmth of the cup . |
| 19 | He followed her , but stopped in the living room doorway and looked at the room . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The dominant cultures have very often not understood their ways , have gaped at their nakedness and laughed at the rituals they do not understand . |
| 22 | She sat in her study and stared at the telephone . |
| 23 | In 1880 he became a deacon of the Episcopal Church in Scotland ; in 1881 he was ordained priest and served at the church of St John the Evangelist , Edinburgh . |
| 24 | ‘ They still could not make the dogs let go and so they got in their car and drove at the dogs with headlights flashing , ’ said a Scotland Yard spokesman . |
| 25 | He went up on the left of me , sliced back in front of my car and dived at the inside of Niki from way too far back … |
| 26 | Then she got the photographs out of her handbag and looked at the view of the swimming-pool . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Maybe he needed some moral support : I jumped up onto the fence and glared at the woman . |
| 29 | He put a supporting arm round Farquhar 's shoulders and grinned at the men rowing only hard enough to hold the ship steady . |
| 30 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |