Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] at the [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It all began when Wade was swimming with dolphins , imitating their movement in an undulation that began at the head and rippled along his body to his fins . |
| 2 | The scullions sweated and ducked at the spits and bake-ovens built around the exercise ground for the clan to feast . |
| 3 | But suddenly it turned and galloped at the house and to my horror it leapt gigantically up and straight at me with bared teeth . |
| 4 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 5 | Her daughters were also charming with their big dark eyes and exuberantly glossy hair and breasts rising like pomegranates , and they giggled in amazed delight when Perdita swore and yelled at the grooms and even screamed at their father . |
| 6 | So she sat down again and looked at the clock and she could n't believe what she was seeing : fifteen minutes past ten ! |
| 7 | Now , we 've used this technique in invasive bladder cancer , and we 've quantified the micro-vascularity in a group of invasive cancers and looked at the prognosis and metastasis . |
| 8 | In common with some of my colleagues , I scanned the introduction and looked at the pictures and summary of the article Principle component analysis ( PCA ) ( Chem . |
| 9 | After the lunch , they all sat on the verandah and looked at the grass and listened to the wood pigeons and warblers . |
| 10 | Fourteen years ago Barbara Wootton identified a problem for social workers when she surveyed their job advertising , and looked at the jargon and specialised language which described the task applicants would perform . |
| 11 | Dickinson half-rose and screamed at the man but the plane lumbered on seeming to spread itself with deliberate stupidity right across his path . |
| 12 | Feeling the whole blueness shutting in on her , walls running with cyan drops whose stench was acrid and bile , she wrenched and wrenched at the straps and at last the curving bottle came free . |
| 13 | From time to time Osman turned and gesticulated at the stretcher and every time he did so a cry of anger rose from the crowd . |
| 14 | He knew that she stopped and stared at the sea or the sky far too much these days . |
| 15 | He lay on his back , as on so many previous nights , and stared at the ceiling and thought . |
| 16 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 17 | The madman shook his head and stared at the bear but Athelstan saw him blink away the tears which pricked his madcap eyes . |
| 18 | Athelstan ground his teeth and glared at the coroner but Sir John smiled sweetly back as if innocent of any devious stratagem . |
| 19 | European General Director Clancy McGillicuddy coughed and spluttered at the innuendo and the local European Managing Directors were n't exactly overjoyed . |
| 20 | It went pop , and Signe leaned forward into the candlelight so that all the customers could see her , and sipped at the champagne and narrowed her eyes at me in a gesture of passion that she had seen in some bad film . |
| 21 | Bernice lifted her face to the warming rays of an impossible sun , and wondered at the beauty and mystery of the universe . |