Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [coord] [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 He took out a clasp knife and sawed at the nut .
5 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 .
6 He followed her , but stopped in the living room doorway and looked at the room .
7 Mrs Blakey , recognizing that something was wrong , rapped sharply on the landing window and beckoned at the children .
8 He 'd auctioned his wine cellar and chuckled at the £28,000 it made .
9 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 .
10 Dickinson half-rose and screamed at the man but the plane lumbered on seeming to spread itself with deliberate stupidity right across his path .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 She went over to the vegetable patch and looked at the earth for a while .
14 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 .
15 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 ) .
16 He picked up the glass case and looked at the bird reflectively .
17 But regarding wages and hours they were all taken by the executive council and debated at the national joint committee with the employers .
18 Princess Anne herself is a former three-day event world champion and competed at the l976 Montreal Olympics .
19 Her distraught South African fiance Cuan Cronje had planned to accompany the two women on their safari trip but cancelled at the last minute .
20 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 .
21 With a small grim smile of satisfaction , he went back to the utility room and looked at the power switches .
22 Peggy sat down at the kitchen table and looked at the mail .
23 She slammed back the driving seat and looked at the unfamiliar dashboard with all its foreign signals .
24 He tore open the cupboard door and peered at the tiny porthole of glass on the front of the central heating boiler .
25 He placed a few coins by his empty coffee cup and waved at the waiter .
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