Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] at [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whitlock shouted at the two policemen on the motorcycles to get the photographers back a few feet to give Mobuto a chance to get out of the limousine . |
| 2 | David photographed at the Grammy Awards of 1975 with John Lennon , Yoko Ono and Roberta Flack |
| 3 | Donna glanced at the other visitors , noticing how diverse an audience were drawn to such a building . |
| 4 | Inside the car , Donna glanced at the two envelopes then slipped them into her handbag . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Madge looked at the four children clustered in the hallway . |
| 7 | Dot looked at the other children 's beds . |
| 8 | The Harman study looked at the ninety-six cases which had been decided by the Registered Homes Tribunal between 1985 and 1989 . |
| 9 | Two fierce eyes glared at the terror-stricken sailors . |
| 10 | As the insects met a sticky death on her windscreen and brambles and gorse bushes clawed at the bright sides of her hired Fiat , she wondered if she should have stayed at home and if she would ever , in fact , see ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 11 | Loretta peered at the bare facts of Puddephat 's life . |
| 12 | The girl lingered at a secondhand clothes shop and was looking at grubby petticoats displayed on iron rods by the doorway , when a young man dressed in a shabby tail coat and check trousers came along and paused beside her . |
| 13 | Only the boy looked at the two men sledging a length of iron on the outside anvil . |
| 14 | Léonie stared at the two shops and came to a decision . |
| 15 | Their later work looked at the smoking habits and health of doctors and led to the crucial evidence that those who stopped smoking eventually lost their increased risk of lung cancer . |
| 16 | Anabelle stared at the hysterical creatures . |
| 17 | A clear difference between Smith and Gould on the question of trade union influence emerged at the two men 's rival press conferences on Tuesday . |
| 18 | Scathach tugged at the crude bridles of the three horses and the beasts , terrified by the transition from tranquillity to rage and protesting loudly , stepped through . |
| 19 | He did n't say anything about ( well-documented ) insults Yeugh directed at the distinguished internationals for no apparent reason — like telling Eddie Gray ‘ if you were a racehorse you 'd have been shot years ago ’ in front of the team — or indeed any of the other eccentric behaviour of the man that got him fired . |
| 20 | Mouse looked at the grimy mattresses , and went over to the tap . |
| 21 | It was one of the tributes marking what would have been his fiftieth birthday , and as Paul Woodley now reports from New York , friends of the singer gathered at the United Nations to play the song as an anthem of peace . |
| 22 | Christina arranged dinner with Celia , then picked some mimosa and bright-lavender periwinkle flowers for the dining-table , which she was arranging when Stephen appeared at the french windows of the dining-room , looming out of the lengthening shadows as dusk turned quickly into night . |
| 23 | The recoil tore at the ripped muscles in his right arm and shoulder . |
| 24 | Labour fingers jabbed at the Liberal Democrats , while Tory order papers were waved in the air . |
| 25 | Withel stared at the boiling flames , unnerved . |
| 26 | And the tailor looked at the watching animals for advice , and they all stared benignly back . |
| 27 | Furthermore , it might be argued from Case 131/86 United Kingdom v. Council , where the Court looked at the preparatory measures to the legislation in question in order to determine whether it was genuinely intended to be agricultural legislation , that the Court might investigate whether there had been a genuine consideration of the question of subsidiarity . |
| 28 | Shelley looked at the happy faces of her companions , and knew they wanted to be alone , however sweet they were being . |
| 29 | Miranda looked at the other mice . |
| 30 | Miranda looked at the imposing exteriors and the bleak interiors of the nursing and residential homes . |