Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [conj] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clinton sat down beside the slop bucket and smiled at the two men . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His eye fell on it for the first time as it sprang onto the marble plinth and clutched at the neck of the vase to steady itself . |
| 4 | In this chapter , I have tried to assess the provisions of WFP in the light of the financial management agenda that existed at the end of 1988. 1 have endeavoured to look at the principles behind its proposals , rather than the detailed systems requirements necessary to make them work . |
| 5 | He took out a clasp knife and sawed at the nut . |
| 6 | Hundreds of people were there and I only saw the Queen at the beginning when she came out with Prince Philip and the Queen Mother and stood at the head of the terrace whilst a band played the National Anthem . |
| 7 | He followed her , but stopped in the living room doorway and looked at the room . |
| 8 | Mrs Blakey , recognizing that something was wrong , rapped sharply on the landing window and beckoned at the children . |
| 9 | He 'd auctioned his wine cellar and chuckled at the £28,000 it made . |
| 10 | Outside , the garden was empty ; but Ruth found Adam where she 'd expected , under the big chestnut tree that grew at the end of the lane . |
| 11 | He shivered at the ‘ yip , yip ’ of a fox carried by the cool night wind and jumped at the screech of the huge bats which flickered up and down the castle walls . |
| 12 | Dickinson half-rose and screamed at the man but the plane lumbered on seeming to spread itself with deliberate stupidity right across his path . |
| 13 | Still on his knees , Grant raised the shotgun and , ignoring the protest from his injured bicep , worked the cocking mechanism and fired at the nightmarish , clawing figure before him . |
| 14 | So we cashed an endowment policy and called at the Cleveland Garage where we bought a gleaming black and chrome palace on wheels , a Standard Vanguard , for £240 . |
| 15 | She went over to the vegetable patch and looked at the earth for a while . |
| 16 | As a small boy , growing up in Liverpool , I stood at the Pier Head and marvelled at the huge Atlantic liners berthed at the world 's largest floating landing-stage . |
| 17 | The synthetic probe ( T 2 AG 3 ) 4 was produced on an Applied Biosystem DNA synthesizer and labeled at the 5' end with ( γ 32 P ) ATP by using T4 polynucleotide kinase under the conditions recommended by the enzyme supplier ( Bethesda Research Laboratories ) . |
| 18 | He picked up the glass case and looked at the bird reflectively . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But regarding wages and hours they were all taken by the executive council and debated at the national joint committee with the employers . |
| 21 | Princess Anne herself is a former three-day event world champion and competed at the l976 Montreal Olympics . |
| 22 | Her distraught South African fiance Cuan Cronje had planned to accompany the two women on their safari trip but cancelled at the last minute . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | With a small grim smile of satisfaction , he went back to the utility room and looked at the power switches . |
| 25 | Peggy sat down at the kitchen table and looked at the mail . |
| 26 | She slammed back the driving seat and looked at the unfamiliar dashboard with all its foreign signals . |
| 27 | Everything was Nordic or Russian except the Lehar group that came at the end . |
| 28 | He tore open the cupboard door and peered at the tiny porthole of glass on the front of the central heating boiler . |
| 29 | He placed a few coins by his empty coffee cup and waved at the waiter . |