Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course . |
| 2 | Pauline 's wide , full mouth turned up at the corners . |
| 3 | ‘ He was going to hit you , ’ she said , and her mouth turned down at the corners . |
| 4 | ‘ We got rid of an old woman and replaced him with a younger one , ’ Fergus said , mouth turned down at the corners , staring over his whisky tumbler and across the room to where his wife was talking to Antonia . |
| 5 | She was frowning , deep lines appearing between her eyebrows , mouth drawn down at the edges so that instead of a classically good-looking slim English Rose in her late twenties , she looked faded , years older than her real age , and shrewish . |
| 6 | Carrie looked at him and saw his mouth turning down at the corners . |
| 7 | Her mind gnawed away at the questions . |
| 8 | McDunn 's mouth twists down at the edges ; he sucks through his teeth , and for some reason I feel encouraged . |
| 9 | Her mouth picked up at the corners and she just had to laugh . |
| 10 | If fixing outside the recess , you will need to add a minimum of 10cm ( 4in ) to the width of the reveal to prevent light seeping through at the sides of the blind . |
| 11 | In time , however , she rose and moved off to sample the hedgerow , stretching her long , white neck to nibble delicately at the tips of the hawthorn . |
| 12 | You got a very good committee , dedicated committee erm who , you see the young trainees were sent to the technical colleges and you see , erm some of them did go on if they graduated to Stanford Hall , but I mean those that went to technical college , we used to have to get the committee to sit in at the examinations . |
| 13 | I cast one longing glance up at the cliffs of Coire Ardair , where the sun was glancing off the icy tips of gleaming rock , and I knew that next time I 'd get the sucker . |
| 14 | Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows . |
| 15 | Speaking to journalists , the former deputy Labour leader on Liverpool council hit out at the police decision to press ahead with the action against him . |
| 16 | We huddled in its dark ruinous rooms sipping bitter tea while gusts of sand blew in at the doorways . |
| 17 | No one noticed for a month , until the contamination showed up at the filters on the primary water circuit . |
| 18 | Rain lashed noisily at the windows . |
| 19 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 20 | The teacher turned up at the police station at eight the next morning to tell me she was taking responsibility for my daughter . |
| 21 | They were standing there , eating crisps , their minds blank , when suddenly a smart green mini pulled up at the steps before them . |
| 22 | The arms positioned alongside the body turn in at the elbows with the hands over the groin . |
| 23 | The mongrel tore savagely at the newspapers and the rat fled further down the alley , desperate for sanctuary . |
| 24 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 25 | Halfway down we caught up with them outside the Trift Hotel and sat together in the sunshine on the veranda looking up at the peaks , eating spaghetti and drinking beer . |
| 26 | Metazoans are virtually absent except in some of the lakes where fresh water seeps in at the edges . |
| 27 | DEREK HATTON , the former Labour politician cleared yesterday of plotting to defraud Liverpool city council , last night hit out at the police decision to press ahead with the action against him . |
| 28 | Health service falling apart at the seams , and this the moment when , instead of attacking this awful government , a number of Labour politicians have decided to attack us , the trade unions who founded the party , and loyally supported the party through thick and thin . |
| 29 | Those still in the queue peered inquisitively at the contents jumbled loosely together in brown paper wrapping . |
| 30 | Benjamin paused and we all stared at the young woman now sitting back in her chair looking up at the rafters , tapping the table top and humming a tune to herself . |