Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] at the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | In other words , the real cost of employing labour rose at the same rate as productivity — over 3 per cent a year ( figure 8.3 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is interesting to note how even euphemisms , symbolizing but not presenting marked terms , can be the more amusing for the conspiracy between scriptwriter , actors and audience in recognizing the term signified at the same time as superficially recognizing that its use is a taboo not to be broken . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Her eyes flared at the stinging insult , only too aware that he outstripped her professionally . |
| 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 | Mrs. Hennessy looked at the open suitcase . |
| 20 | Leicestershire lay at the very heart of open-field England . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Gaveston looked at the young page boy standing near him , a goblet of wine in his small white hands . |
| 23 | Grimma stared at the huge face . |
| 24 | Breathing heavily Emilia stared at the younger woman as though bereft of all hope that she might be understood . |
| 25 | The hammer fell at the lower estimate of DM250,000 ( £625,000 ; $1 million ) for El Lissitzky 's mixed media work from the ‘ Proun ’ series ; it fell at DM110,000 ( £44,000 ; $70,400 ) , exceeding the reserve , for Sandor Bortnyik 's Cubist watercolour of a newspaper reader . |
| 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 . |