Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train . |
| 2 | The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation . |
| 3 | They looked red and sore and his mouth seemed to droop at the corners . |
| 4 | The tweed-coated figure continued to stare at the page of the book to the left of his plate , ignoring his companion . |
| 5 | When Luke called her heart seemed to expand at the look of admiration that slipped over his face as his gaze took in her simple cream suit in thick , crunchy lace , the severe black camisole she wore beneath it , but he merely murmured , ‘ Punctual as always . |
| 6 | The recession has exacerbated this problem to such an extent that the Metropolitan Police has a Fraud Squad division detailed to look at the issue . |
| 7 | Holly heard him shift on his bunk and the mattress seemed to belch at the movement . |
| 8 | In a recent incident a vehicle failed to stop at the junction and damaged Curwen House the building on Gubberford Lane almost opposite the end of Tithe Barn Lane . |
| 9 | A tiny weeny hint of a plan began to tinkle at the back of my brain like a triangle at the back of an orchestra . |
| 10 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |
| 11 | His Mum turned to look at the car that had crushed the arrow bits . |
| 12 | Breeze turned to glance at the man who had just entered the shop , and saw that it was Roger Kenyon . |
| 13 | The orientation of sCD2 is chosen relative to a cell surface assumed to lie at the bottom of the illustration in the plane normal to the vertical . |
| 14 | And when she thought it was about to finish , the whip began to flick at the pegs . |
| 15 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 16 | A car skidded into the hedge to avoid it ; another lorry managed to stop at the end of four long streaks of scorched rubber on the wet road . |
| 17 | Serfdom seemed to lie at the root of many of their own frustrations , to preclude progress , be it economic , social , or political . |
| 18 | My baby had to remain at the nursing home , as I had no one to look after him , and he was not admitted into hospital because of whooping-cough in the nursery there . |
| 19 | My learned friend and I thought that if your Lordship wanted to look at the documentation so that your Lordship is familiar with some of the documentation which is going to be referred to in the evidence , er simply to enable your Lordship to be er a little more familiar with the nature of content of some of the documentation then the crucial documents are those of pages one seven eight to four two five , bundle B. |
| 20 | Such was my astonishment that I stopped kicking the offending mouse and at the first opportunity went to look at the hedgerow . |
| 21 | The man moved to stand at the top of the stairs , barring their way , and then he recognized the young man . |
| 22 | The little man began to kick at the tentacle in fury . |
| 23 | In many cases the actual amount of information given in the recalls was minimal , limited to whether a subject had to wait at the junction and whether there was other traffic around at the time . |
| 24 | The man continued to hack at the body , right down to the bone and intestines . |
| 25 | Read what the movement 's spokesman had to say at the time . |
| 26 | We must have looked pathetic because the man paused , looking at us , then he turned to Dad and said if Dad promised to call at the office he would n't report the matter . |
| 27 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 28 | Very slowly an idea began to form at the back of his mind . |
| 29 | I 'd like to go on and lo dad went to look at the cathedral . |
| 30 | Reshuffling its North America operations is , ZDS officials say , ‘ part of an effort to make the firm more responsive to the personal computer Unix-based market worldwide … the company had to start at the heart of the problem the bureaucracy in the company . ’ |