Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett stared past her at the timbered house . |
| 2 | As one wag said to me at the time , ‘ Only R is different ’ . |
| 3 | Yeah but you say to her that they 're always on about how s Shrimpy ca n't do anything for himself , and it 's between Emma , it 's not between it was al even Scott said to me at the beginning oh it 's not between me , it 's nothing to do with me , it 's between Emma and Scott . |
| 4 | She closed her eyes as the memory rushed back vividly into her mind again , and a feeling of panic rose through her at the thought that a fierce spark of that madness might be living on within her as she approached the middle of her life . |
| 5 | One man has died and another was seriously injured when a fifteen tonne machine fell on them at a factory in Gloucestershire . |
| 6 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 7 | A shudder ran through him at the touch of her fingers and he drew her closer , crushing her against the powerful length of his body so that she could feel his heart thundering against her breast . |
| 8 | A shudder ran through her at the thought of meeting Luke Calder again and she turned away , making a great performance of picking up her handbag . |
| 9 | Loneliness stole across him at the strangest times . |
| 10 | Carrie looked about her at the crackling fire and a fair semblance of tidiness in the kitchen . |
| 11 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 12 | A man died when a wall collapsed on him at a farm in Gloucestershire . |
| 13 | A SCHOOLBOY was killed when a wall collapsed on him at the weekend . |
| 14 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 15 | Blanche looked round her at the wallpapered walls and the flounced pink curtains and said , ‘ How very nice . |
| 16 | Poindexter discoursed on it at the hearings , tamping his pipe , with the aid of the sort of brightly-coloured maps usually found in school atlases . |
| 17 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 18 | Shirley Valentine fitted the bill and Paula appeared in it at the Playhouse . |
| 19 | Kate looked around her at the busy incident room . |
| 20 | Then she took him out to supper to celebrate , Philip and Pat joining in , and the evening became one of those when the participants have to pause , to say to themselves : Yes , this is me , it really is me Happiness sat with them at the table in the Seashell Fish'n'Chips ; they could not stop smiling , or Jim from laughing and sighing . |
| 21 | The Frenchman sat opposite me at the large farmhouse table chatting away for all he was worth and after the meal he puffed away at his pipe as if he had n't a care in the world . |
| 22 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 23 | Karr looked about him at the carnage , then turned , facing Ebert . |
| 24 | William whistled to me at a distance , and Val said ‘ do n't do that , you 'll start an avalanche ’ . |
| 25 | Unexpected excitement flickered inside her at the thought . |
| 26 | Behind they heard the death screams of the abandoned mules , and their steeds accelerated even more whilst the grey ghosts of Murtach 's wolves darted beside them at an impossible speed . |
| 27 | As he strapped the cleansing blade to his left arm , a thrill of carnal excitement shuddered through him at the prospect of another kill , as the bloodlust took full possession of him , banishing the last vestiges of sanity from his sick mind . |
| 28 | The problem started for me at the end of a tough week when we played Leeds on the Sunday , then Everton in the Coca-Cola Cup on the Wednesday and Tottenham on Saturday . |
| 29 | A tiny shaft of surprise jolted through him at the realisation that , this time , he had imputed courage to Isabel 's stoic control instead of calculated coldness . |
| 30 | Maria sat beside them at the table . |