Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 2 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 3 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 4 | The ducks gazed thoughtfully at the sky and flapped their wings , but not so much as a peep was uttered by any of them . |
| 5 | Ingrid Heseltine , an EC civil servant , found the vacancies tucked away at the back of Euro documents , printed in French . |
| 6 | Do n't these people realise that dozens of reviewers are likely to spend several hours gazing blankly at the album sleeve as they try to come up with some natty simile to describe the musical contents therein ? |
| 7 | Iain looked up when Andrew came in but quickly returned his attention to the screen when he heard the volley of shots and his lips parted slightly at the crescendo of violence and glamour . |
| 8 | Her words tailed off at the expression in his eyes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A man who was vaguely familiar was seated at the desk , his hair was grey and his eyes peered short-sightedly at the books before him . |
| 11 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 12 | Could I just ask you , did those bodices do up at the back with hooks and eyes ? |
| 13 | What do the journalists type on at the Post ? ’ |
| 14 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 15 | Once you have all your lists of goals written somewhere at the front of your diary , you are ready to start . |
| 16 | The young boy still stood like a soldier , holding the reins of the horses , his eyes looking eagerly at the piles of steaming dung obligingly dropped by both Philomel and Cranston 's mount . |
| 17 | She pulled off her clothes and left them in a heap , then lay on top of the covers looking up at the ceiling . |
| 18 | Peter Suvarov smiled , his eyes crinkling up at the corners and his bitter mouth relaxing , and handed her a handkerchief . |
| 19 | The dog , after lapping a little water , went and sat down heavily beside him , eyes turned up at the portrait of itself thoughtfully , perhaps making a critical assessment of it . |
| 20 | Nor is it simply a matter of politics that most of the democratic dissident-led parties fared poorly at the polls . |
| 21 | Candy 's cornflower-blue eyes widened incredulously at the sacrilege . |
| 22 | The marquis 's lips turned down at the corners . |
| 23 | Should be a few goals going in at the Baseball Ground on Sunday … the central live match is Derby County against Oxford United … |
| 24 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |
| 25 | Hale 's eyes stare knowingly at the viewer , a human sacrifice to an alienated and consumerist culture . |
| 26 | Posidonius confessed that at first he had been disturbed by the spectacle of human heads nailed up at the entrance of the aristocratic Celtic houses , but afterwards " becoming used to it he could bear it with equanimity " ( Strabo 4.4.5 ) . |
| 27 | He was held in a reclining position by his seat-belt , with his head bent back and his mouth open , his eyes staring up at the roof of the car , his right arm hanging straight down , his left snagged on the gear-stick . |
| 28 | Slorne became still and took stance on the branch quite near to Creggan , her head tilting to one site , ant her eyes staring out at the sunset sky that rose massively now over the Cages . |
| 29 | Ajayi looked up at the door to the winding-stair expecting to see an attendant , but the voice had come from behind her , and she could see Quiss 's face starting to turn red , his eyes widening , the lines around them spreading out further . |
| 30 | I like that Harrow School Song the kids sang yesterday at the breaking-up stunt , do n't you ? ’ |