Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rook , picking at a dead rabbit 's eyes , hesitated before he lumbered up and flew away . |
| 2 | The membrane broke open and he found himself looking at a little horse 's head lying upon a pair of stretched out forelegs , a perfect little head with shell-like curling nostrils and a narrow white blaze , and wet , flattened-down ears . |
| 3 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
| 4 | When the dielectric loss factor is measured at a characteristic frequency ο max and a given temperature , it passes through a maximum when a relaxation occurs , and the dipole relaxation time , can be obtained . |
| 5 | Dot slid down from the high bed and sat on the carpet and looked at a wooden dolls ' house , a painted rocking horse , but she did n't touch . |
| 6 | A formal decision was likely to be taken at a foreign ministers ' meeting in June . |
| 7 | We both know about farming — we even met at a Young Farmers ' dance ! |
| 8 | If you wait five years it gets slightly steeper so the force to you becomes that and so on and so forth , forty five fifty and you can see at fifty five if you want to retire at a certain age er what 's the age that you actually want to retire ? |
| 9 | Paul gets deeply drunk at a New Year 's Eve party , where those friends who already have children get wheezily maudlin and dilate on the sheer cost of small kids versus the sheer joy of small kids ; while those who do n't have kids elbow him constantly , calling him a bit of a sharp-shooter , a devil , a sperm-bank , a prong , a peopler of nations and an irresponsible git . |
| 10 | The Kingscote mosaic itself , like those of rooms 5 , 11 and 14 at Chedworth , could lie at a stylistic crossroads ' . |
| 11 | She now teaches at a local girls ' school where she finds the all-female staff ‘ extremely supportive of each other ’ . |