Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] at the [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Peter Suvarov smiled , his eyes crinkling up at the corners and his bitter mouth relaxing , and handed her a handkerchief . |
| 7 | Nor is it simply a matter of politics that most of the democratic dissident-led parties fared poorly at the polls . |
| 8 | The marquis 's lips turned down at the corners . |
| 9 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |
| 10 | And from the depths of the pool little yellow frogs stared up at the nomes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But more complex emotions creep in at the fringes of the tale , where the grandfather 's ostracism of the man his daughter loves leads to several fraught emotional scenes . |
| 13 | Where the tracks turns right at the woods , walk ahead to the gap in the hedge where the path joins the Ridgeway ( 639 032 ) . |
| 14 | Or , again , the Crusades might be seen , as they were in much propaganda , as wars fought to defend fellow Christians suffering physically at the hands of the Muslim world — those who took part being ‘ fired by the ardour of charity ’ towards their brothers . |
| 15 | The doves flew in at the mouths and made their nests inside . |
| 16 | The herb beds should be lightly dug over with a fork , weeded if necessary , and the invasive plants chopped back at the roots . |
| 17 | The farmers gathered then at the gates of the local authority offices and forced them open . |
| 18 | Biblical criticism had undermined the Bible story , and physicists and geologists chipped away at the events depicted in the first book of Genesis . |
| 19 | They went through to the main City Transfer barrier , ignoring the long queue of passengers formed up at the gates , going directly to the duty officer , a short , broad-shouldered man with neat black hair . |
| 20 | The Welfare Committee and friends help out at the children 's Christmas party . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In addition , pairs usually breed at Bracklesham Bay , Aldingbourne gravel pits , the Crumbles , and Normans Bay , and up to nine pairs do so at the Midrips . |
| 23 | Men fidgeted nervously at the tables . |
| 24 | Her fingers twitched nervously at the buttons of the high collar . |
| 25 | Through the open door he could see the computer personnel ; some with hands still over their ears , others looking around at the walls and ceiling . |
| 26 | His small elbows stuck out at the sides as he cut and ate food in a frenzy . |
| 27 | But now … hands and handkerchiefs and newspapers waved from every window of the train , and smiling faces looked up at the children on the fence . |
| 28 | We watch as friendships come apart at the seams , as lives of promise collapse under the weight of illness or despair or disillusion , but there is a reckless exhilaration about it all . |
| 29 | As half a dozen cannons flashed simultaneously at the ramparts , gaps appeared in the ranks of charging men and horses thrashed to the ground … |