Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Welsh- Pearson , the company he set up in 1915 , remained small , making only three or four films a year , thus resisting the pressures for mass production that prevailed at the larger studios . |
| 2 | She sat there , her feet on tiptoe , just reaching the black and white floor , and gazed at the glazed bumps of the linen towel hanging from a hook on the back of the door , the little wash-basin shaped like a scallop shell , the black and white edging of the tiles above . |
| 3 | He walked into the lobby without a word , entered the kitchen and gazed at the four prisoners . |
| 4 | Victoria , oddly quenched , sat at Aunt Margaret 's feet and gazed at the shifting patterns in the fire , singing to herself a wordless , keening song . |
| 5 | Helen leaned over my shoulder and gazed at the long lines of boy scouts , girl guides , ex-servicemen , with half the population of the town packed on the pavements , watching . |
| 6 | The main problem with MI6 at the time was that all the senior people were amateurs who had joined MI6 only because they had gone to the right school , wore the right sort of tie and dined at the right clubs . |
| 7 | Sims took out a jeweller 's eyeglass and peered at the tiny negatives . |
| 8 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 9 | ‘ No , your Grace , for when he mustered what force he had left and drove at the Welsh knights , he could both ride and fight , and so did , and well . |
| 10 | Petion saw her go from the corner of his eye , and fired at the crouching figures on the freighter 's deck with grim determination . |
| 11 | Delaney shook Lawton by the hand , and nodded at the other faces , regarding them levelly . |
| 12 | While she phoned the switchboard and requested that they page the cardiographer , Michael Barrington the orthopaedic SR arrived and glanced at the shattered stubs of the young man 's femurs . |
| 13 | Bridhe looked at her shrewdly , and glanced at the other women . |
| 14 | Pam sat up , her face flushed with happiness and an almost girlish embarrassment , and grinned at the two men who had just entered . |
| 15 | The Indian stood in the doorway , a duffle bag looped over one shoulder , and looked at the two phones on the desk . |
| 16 | Kiah and Rilla sat down on the expensive green and black chairs and looked at the expensive flowers on the tables . |
| 17 | Now the reason why we 've gone through all these horrible equations right , and looked at the adaptive expectations model and the partial adjustment model is because both of these two things are incorporated into single res erm a single supply response model that was developed by Nerlove Nur Nerlove in nineteen fifty eight old model but very very popular , right . |
| 18 | She shook her head to dispel the shadows and looked at the four children sitting listlessly on the couch . |
| 19 | ’ For five minutes the two engineers moved around in the steam and smoke , and looked at the big engines . |
| 20 | But for the present I ca n't — ’ He broke off , and looked at the three dates again . |
| 21 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 22 | She tipped her head back and stared at the tumbling nymphs and satyrs that danced across it , trailing garlands of flowers . |
| 23 | Benjamin nodded and stared at the dying flames of the fire . |
| 24 | The girls looked a little less sulky and stared at the two townees . |
| 25 | Afterwards , I sat on his lap while he drank some of that funny-smelling liquid and stared at the moving pictures in the corner . |
| 26 | Walter Carew raised his head and stared at the grey tendrils of smoke climbing up from the brown barren waste . |
| 27 | She knelt down and stared at the smaller words below it . |
| 28 | Calatin sat back in his chair and stared at the three strangers in his house and said , ‘ Oh dear , you 're not going into the Far Future ? ’ |
| 29 | She laughed and laughed at The Merry Wives of Windsor . |
| 30 | She shuddered as the switchback roared overhead , but stood watching as a small train meandered through a series of paths , and laughed at the joyful screams of the children on the dodgems . |