Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 5-2 fav had drawn upsides The Vatman Cometh when that rival capsized at the final obstacle . |
| 2 | Old Den stood at the opposite side of the grave with Tommy Drennan , each with a cord ready to help lay Celia and Dermot Murphy to rest . |
| 3 | Another birdie came at the short sixth , a downhill putt of 8ft , but a bogey five at the ninth , taking him out in 36 , undermined any move up the leaderboard . |
| 4 | A major exhibition of Tibetan art opened at the Royal Academy on 18 September as reports are coming out of Tibet that the Chinese have recently completed the ‘ restoration ’ of the Dalai Lama 's Potala Palace and the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa . |
| 5 | After a few minutes a little flame blossomed at the far corner . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For a moment unguarded amusement tugged at the stern line of that mouth , and lit something in the haunting depth of those eyes . |
| 8 | A white sink shone at the far end , some sort of covered porcelain bucket underneath it . |
| 9 | In the dark of the year the little penguin gazed at the wild lights of Aurora 's Dancers whirling above her . |
| 10 | A sneering face gazed at the caged men . |
| 11 | The fat Nubian nodded at the little girl from the south , who primped and giggled . |
| 12 | Alice sought out Mary and they watched appreciatively as the two strong , tall , graceful , beautifully built young men whirled each other about , endured two dog falls — draws — and only after several lengthy spasms of athletic tussling arrived at the deciding fall . |
| 13 | ‘ As the sexy songbird marvelled at the underwater wildlife , the huge maneater moved in to make a meal of the talented star , ’ reported the Sport . |
| 14 | A tall man waited at the stable entrance of the lodging house where Lucille Castineau had rented two attic rooms . |
| 15 | A large man and a small boy appeared at the other end of the platform : she hobbled on her heels , humping her heavy suitcase , towards them . |
| 16 | Stewart 's only birdie came at the short fourth , where her ball agonisingly finished on the lip of the hole . |
| 17 | Using this technique required one camera pointed at the live set , another pointed at an easel bearing a large , mounted photograph a caption slide . |
| 18 | A pack of stray dogs on the far bank tore at the sodden carcase of a dead sheep . |
| 19 | Indeed it had and the Nonconformist minister stood at the very centre of the Nonconformist world we are discussing . |
| 20 | But the previously all-conquering pack creaked at the set pieces , where the much-improved Irish achieved parity . |
| 21 | Foster , whose own career started at the tender age of 3 , discovered 9-year-old Adam in a New York classroom : ‘ It was him wanting to be something that drew me , ’ she says . |
| 22 | The same thing happened at the Dental Hospital at the RVH during the day . |
| 23 | Less than 12 months after Steve Pate was pulled out of the Ryder Cup singles on medical grounds much the same thing happened at the recent PGA Cup match at Kildare . |
| 24 | The Upper Mill stood at the western end of the village , and was always a corn mill . |
| 25 | The other girl giggled at the threatening note in Rory 's voice . |
| 26 | There was no sound from within the cell , though the prisoner 's little lamp was lighted , its faint glow showed at the high , barred window . |
| 27 | The young woman glanced at the scrying glass . |
| 28 | The orchestra played louder — the young man sniffed at the white carnation in his buttonhole and wrinkled his nose in an upper-class fashion . |
| 29 | Blue raincoat pointed at the open door , then went back to the car . |
| 30 | One further return to Carolingian precedent occurred at the very end of Louis VII 's reign , when coinage from the king 's mints and bearing his image began to circulate outside the royal demesne for the first time since the late ninth century . |