Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film . |
| 2 | Of course I stayed overnight at the hotel and spent a good part of the following day placating the ruffled Emily , even though I felt sure she was not as disturbed as she made out . |
| 3 | In fact , it was the extra revenue she brought in at the baby end that enabled the charity to open up units for cervical cancer , and fund other research into unappealing but equally vital conditions . |
| 4 | ‘ Most people finding that the leather handbag they picked up at the school fete was , in fact , plastic would shrug it off if the proceeds of the sale were going to a good cause , ’ said Mr Richards . |
| 5 | Erm the tentative benefit you put in at the end of that you said is that okay and Maggie said yes erm the answer could be construed I , I thought in that basis well yes it 's okay so what whereas if you 'd 've said is that of interest to you |
| 6 | Using the fork like a pick she chipped away at the soil . |
| 7 | ‘ I think he is now a far better player than the youngster we threw in at the deep end against Wales last season . |
| 8 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |
| 9 | For a moment she stared down at the stains and the roses , and then she walked away . |
| 10 | For a moment she stood uncertainly at the entrance to the marquee , the simplicity of her dark long dress in elegant contrast to the exotic fancydress all around her . |
| 11 | ‘ With one eye you look out at the world ; with the other you look in at yourself ’ , was Modigliani 's explanation . |
| 12 | Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time . |
| 13 | The moment he walked in at the door he knew something was very wrong . |
| 14 | Rostov reached for the flat permahide envelope which contained his orders and for a moment he brushed absently at the crisp new admiral 's stripe on his sleeve . |
| 15 | The old man had set off too and as he caught up with the cart he looked up at the fuming totter . |
| 16 | ‘ But that night you turned up at the farmhouse , you said … ’ |
| 17 | Last night we looked back at the history of the MG , which appeared to have died a death when the factory at Abingdon closed in 1981 . |
| 18 | Pressing himself against the wall he looked down at the body . |
| 19 | George Birkitt got through with only one prompt , but his performance was spoiled by the smug smile he wore throughout at the star 's expense . |
| 20 | On the train I looked furtively at the lock on the carriage door and watched the railway embankment carefully as if assessing the effect of falling out onto it at speed . |
| 21 | Con Fenton 's cottage was less than half a mile away and on my way back to the surgery , on an impulse I pulled up at the door . |
| 22 | Next morning I looked in at the forge before leaving , and said goodbye to Joe , who was already hard at work . |
| 23 | In mounting anger she glared up at the taunting dark face , wondering how she could ever have thought his laughter attractive . |
| 24 | It 's at the top but the lift you pick up at the bottom now . |
| 25 | The more shit they throw over at the Jerries the better . |
| 26 | Sitting on my own behind them on the return journey I looked straight at the innocently sensuous lips of Isabella Rossellini , advertising a perfume near traffic lights . |
| 27 | With a nail brush she scrubbed persistently at the frosted glass of the small window , where something black ( dirt ? or some kind of growth ? ) spread all along the indented patterns on the glass . |
| 28 | As they reached the door she glanced down at the small flower bed which gardeners in the congregation were trying to cultivate with more optimism than success in the unrewarding soil at the side of the path . |
| 29 | Back in bed she sipped morosely at the whisky , grimacing slightly at its taste , then giggling wryly at her own reaction . |
| 30 | It was identical to the one worn by the man in the photo she had back at the hotel . |