Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Candy 's cornflower-blue eyes widened incredulously at the sacrilege . |
| 2 | Silver-gilt hair flowed behind her , clear eyes looked out at the world and her fresh skin was tinted with delicate colour . |
| 3 | According to the foreign journalists camped out at the Intercontinental Hotel for weeks hoping for a simple soundbite from El Presidente , he was not seeing anyone . |
| 4 | The old car went well at the start of the season , but attention to detail was wanting . |
| 5 | The old guard hit back at the newly formed , broad-based Union of Democratic Forces , which is organising tomorrow 's demonstrations . |
| 6 | According to Presswatch , Scottish companies fared better at the hands of the London press than their English counterparts , with an average score of 198 among the 27 companies monitored . |
| 7 | French firms arrived late at the foreign-investment auction and paid high prices as a result . |
| 8 | The old woman looked round at the child and smiled , suddenly touched . |
| 9 | Philip of Valois 's claim , however , had the virtues of clarity and logic , whereas Edward 's claim , as French lawyers pointed out at the time and French historians have not hesitated to remark since , rested on the unsatisfactory assumption that a woman could transmit a right which she could not exercise . |
| 10 | The weatherbeaten old man squinted up at the handsome young giant who stood grinning down at him . |
| 11 | Opponents of sales see them as reducing a vital social resource built up at the ratepayers ' expense , while proponents see sales to long-standing tenants as almost a recourse to ‘ natural justice ’ , although there are also the political overtones of the desire of Conservative politicians to build up a property-owning base to their vote . |
| 12 | First the social worker went in at the old man 's request , and tried to persuade the daughter and son-in-law to leave . |
| 13 | Nor is it simply a matter of politics that most of the democratic dissident-led parties fared poorly at the polls . |
| 14 | But throughout the verbal onslaught of 152 days of intense and heated debate , one simple question remained firmly at the top of the agenda : whether nuclear power would be cheaper than other potential sources of electricity . |
| 15 | Their self-appointed guide waved expansively at the huge panels of glass on the other side of the hall . |
| 16 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 17 | One delicate hand plucked fretfully at the sheet . |
| 18 | Little Amaru looked down at the street and kicked a can with his red gumboots . |
| 19 | BBC English plans a revised edition of the BBC English Dictionary every year but first the paperback edition ( itself revised ) , appears this month with the encyclopedic entries listed separately at the back . |
| 20 | My muddled mind smiled vaguely at the idea of Moses turning down such a long-running client . |
| 21 | It consisted of the straight robe mentioned above , with an elaborate flounced and layered over-skirt tied on at the waist . |
| 22 | It remains a subject of some curiosity that this apparently exceptional event occurred just at the time that the Greenpeace boat was moored offshore . |
| 23 | Barbara Lohman of the Points of Light Foundation ( a non-profit organisation set up at the instigation of the White House ) says that today 's volunteers are ‘ not turned on by the martyrdom thing . ’ |
| 24 | A few Tory Members laughed heartily at the right hon. Gentleman 's contribution to our understanding , but the reality is that if the European fighter aircraft programme falls through , there will be redundancies among the most skilled sector of our manufacturing work force . |
| 25 | The little plane came down at the old airport , south of the town . |
| 26 | If the atmosphere at Sandringham was uncomfortable , at Park House it became unbearable as Diana 's little world fell apart at the seams . |
| 27 | Last night Mr Taylor 's neighbours and his local Tory MP hit out at the sentences . |
| 28 | She followed to the corner of the schoolroom , and there stood watching in silence as Tutilo mounted , and the little cavalcade filed out at the gate and turned along the Foregate . |
| 29 | The following Tuesday , the chairman of the Tory party stood up at the Tory party conference and said , ’ We are going to wipe out Labour at the next general election . ’ |
| 30 | And the tall tree arched over at the top in a graceful curve like a shepherd 's crook , as if it were looking down to admire itself . |