Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 2 | A man who was vaguely familiar was seated at the desk , his hair was grey and his eyes peered short-sightedly at the books before him . |
| 3 | Pauline 's wide , full mouth turned up at the corners . |
| 4 | ‘ He was going to hit you , ’ she said , and her mouth turned down at the corners . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Nor is it simply a matter of politics that most of the democratic dissident-led parties fared poorly at the polls . |
| 7 | The marquis 's lips turned down at the corners . |
| 8 | Ruthven looked up at the birds wheeling and twisting against the blue sky . |
| 9 | Hawkins looked briefly at the signals again . |
| 10 | Bernice looked again at the bones . |
| 11 | And from the depths of the pool little yellow frogs stared up at the nomes . |
| 12 | Her mind gnawed away at the questions . |
| 13 | Her mouth picked up at the corners and she just had to laugh . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Lever pointed out at the mountains . |
| 16 | Zen gazed up at the shelves loaded with rows of books as uniform as bricks . |
| 17 | According to Presswatch , Scottish companies fared better at the hands of the London press than their English counterparts , with an average score of 198 among the 27 companies monitored . |
| 18 | Maggie glanced over at the Lawlers who were about a dozen feet from her . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We huddled in its dark ruinous rooms sipping bitter tea while gusts of sand blew in at the doorways . |
| 21 | Gilberto Nieddu spat thoughtfully at the pigeons on the roof below . |
| 22 | In like manner , but without the risk , Bloomsbury chipped away at the standards inherited from Victorians . |
| 23 | No one noticed for a month , until the contamination showed up at the filters on the primary water circuit . |
| 24 | Rain lashed noisily at the windows . |
| 25 | The teacher turned up at the police station at eight the next morning to tell me she was taking responsibility for my daughter . |
| 26 | However , on the eve of today 's clash with Coventry at Highbury , which could result in Arsenal going top , Graham hit back at the fans who have attacked Dixon . |
| 27 | They were standing there , eating crisps , their minds blank , when suddenly a smart green mini pulled up at the steps before them . |
| 28 | The doves flew in at the mouths and made their nests inside . |
| 29 | Li Shai Tung looked back at the pictures above the bed with new understanding . |
| 30 | Braithwaite looked disapprovingly at the rows of bottles . |