Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv prt] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier she had listened intently as a statement by Cheshires commanding officer Lt Col Bob Stewart read out at the hearing told how L/Cpl Edwards ' killer had not been traced . |
| 2 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 3 | The princess , in a royal purple suit-dress , pushed on in front to sign the visitors ' book while the prince wandered off at the end , leaving his wife in his wake . |
| 4 | Inside were two fairly small square rooms , one each side of the front door , with a roomy kitchen built on at the back . |
| 5 | Her words tailed off at the expression in his eyes . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've never eaten them , ’ Richard gazed up at the man , his clear chestnut eyes , starry with their thick lashes , open wide as he judged the amount of pathos necessary to achieve his aim . |
| 7 | Sylvie gazed out at the eternity of blue and took a long , deep breath . |
| 8 | Both Pen and Ferdinando rushed in immediately the carriage drew up at the door and wonderful was the reunion ; then within the hour the kindest of notes came from Mrs Browning begging her to find the time and energy to visit whenever she was able . |
| 9 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 10 | Still they waited , as the Scots came on at a canter . |
| 11 | A moment 's thought told him that this system worked only because two-thirds of the expected total of a Yeo Davis partnership came out at an amount well in excess of his salary , or that of any public servant of his age . |
| 12 | Richard squinted up at the sun then fell into step beside her . |
| 13 | The dog , after lapping a little water , went and sat down heavily beside him , eyes turned up at the portrait of itself thoughtfully , perhaps making a critical assessment of it . |
| 14 | Pauline 's wide , full mouth turned up at the corners . |
| 15 | ‘ He was going to hit you , ’ she said , and her mouth turned down at the corners . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | The marquis 's lips turned down at the corners . |
| 18 | Rocky nodded down at the girl between them . |
| 19 | Lucy glanced down at the book lying open on the desk . |
| 20 | And in the third part , " Tuami glanced back at the gap through the mountain and saw that it was full of golden light and the sun was sitting in it " . |
| 21 | Travis glanced up at the lowering sun . |
| 22 | The Blumenthalstrasse address turned out to be one of the shoeboxes , a five-storey block of flats with the staircase and lift-shaft stuck on at the side of a column of frosted-glass bricks . |
| 23 | Then Adams hit out at the dismissal of defenceman Mike Ware , saying : ‘ We 're told Mike went for a Fife player — he never hit him . |
| 24 | The expected violence broke out at the news of his death . |
| 25 | F worked out at a half . |
| 26 | Hennessy looked down at the slip of paper that he was being offered . |
| 27 | However , according to Dave Ball — who was European Marketing Director for Artisoft at the time but has now switched camps to take up the same role at Performance — the deal fell through at the end of last year . |
| 28 | Ruthven looked up at the birds wheeling and twisting against the blue sky . |
| 29 | Ajayi looked up at the door to the winding-stair expecting to see an attendant , but the voice had come from behind her , and she could see Quiss 's face starting to turn red , his eyes widening , the lines around them spreading out further . |
| 30 | The superintendent looked up at the SOCO , posing the question like a doctor checking the symptoms of a sickly patient . |