Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Peter Suvarov smiled , his eyes crinkling up at the corners and his bitter mouth relaxing , and handed her a handkerchief . |
| 5 | The marquis 's lips turned down at the corners . |
| 6 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |
| 7 | And from the depths of the pool little yellow frogs stared up at the nomes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The doves flew in at the mouths and made their nests inside . |
| 10 | The herb beds should be lightly dug over with a fork , weeded if necessary , and the invasive plants chopped back at the roots . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Welfare Committee and friends help out at the children 's Christmas party . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His small elbows stuck out at the sides as he cut and ate food in a frenzy . |
| 16 | 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 . |