Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Doyle peered at the crumpled figure .
2 That I have much more of this world 's goods than Garry will ever have could n't help you to that decision , could it ? ’ he said , and her heart sank at the cynical twist to his mouth and his bitter tone .
3 Nervously Meredith gazed at the open water ahead and then back at Venice , the minarets and bell-towers , the tall palaces just a distant unfocused blur in the morning mist .
4 The superintendent gazed at the blank TV screen before suddenly turning to Franks , her eyes drained of laughter .
5 Her eyes gazed at the yellow light on the ceiling .
6 Nellie asked at the front door .
7 Corbett gazed at the distant line of trees .
8 Bernice shouted at the giggling body beneath her .
9 Yuan 's eyes flickered at the vocative title ‘ sei-sen ’ — ‘ sword bearer ’ .
10 He smiled without humour when Frankie sucked at the soap-filled cloth in order to sluice the taste of rancid beck-water from his mouth .
11 David photographed at the Grammy Awards of 1975 with John Lennon , Yoko Ono and Roberta Flack
12 It was from this starting-point that the structuralists arrived at the radical view that all meaning in every sphere of human activity consists of closed systems wholly independent of the material world .
13 Ronni was still fizzing with indignation — how dared he make fun of her ? — when , sure enough , a car arrived at the front door , laden with dishes dovered in tin foil .
14 Her eyes flared at the stinging insult , only too aware that he outstripped her professionally .
15 Donna glanced at the other visitors , noticing how diverse an audience were drawn to such a building .
16 Becky yelled at the flustered marquis :
17 Meredith grinned at the outrageous exaggeration .
18 The 5-2 fav had drawn upsides The Vatman Cometh when that rival capsized at the final obstacle .
19 Whether it was Millie 's infuriated strength that caused the woman 's grasp on the scissors to slacken , or that she changed her tactics and meant to direct the scissors towards the child 's face , could n't be known , but Millie grabbed at the open blades and , managing to twist them round , consciously or by accident drove one of the blades into the nun 's arm .
20 Mrs. Hennessy looked at the open suitcase .
21 Leicestershire lay at the very heart of open-field England .
22 Dot looked at the other children 's beds .
23 Unfortunately , at that precise second , the makeshift platform gave way and Bobby disappeared at the very height of his rhetoric with the chairman , the union secretary , the workers ’ deputy and the four constables who by now had infiltrated the platform party .
24 Gaveston looked at the young page boy standing near him , a goblet of wine in his small white hands .
25 Grimma stared at the huge face .
26 This retrospective casenote study looked at the early course of schizophrenia in Asians , Afro-Caribbeans , and Whites presenting for admission with a first psychotic episode , to All Saints Hospital , Birmingham ( n= 137 ) over a 24 month period .
27 Jahsaxa Penumbra hissed at the helpless form of her recaptured employee .
28 At eleven o'clock the big Volvo appeared at the far end of the hangar and drove slowly towards him , coming to a stop with its engine running forty feet away .
29 After a few minutes a little flame blossomed at the far corner .
30 Despite the fact that representatives of both Korea and Taiwan appeared at the public hearing on the issue to argue their case , Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is expected to grant the request for certification .
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