Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ducks gazed thoughtfully at the sky and flapped their wings , but not so much as a peep was uttered by any of them . |
| 2 | Ingrid Heseltine , an EC civil servant , found the vacancies tucked away at the back of Euro documents , printed in French . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Once you have all your lists of goals written somewhere at the front of your diary , you are ready to start . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nor is it simply a matter of politics that most of the democratic dissident-led parties fared poorly at the polls . |
| 10 | Candy 's cornflower-blue eyes widened incredulously at the sacrilege . |
| 11 | Hale 's eyes stare knowingly at the viewer , a human sacrifice to an alienated and consumerist culture . |
| 12 | I like that Harrow School Song the kids sang yesterday at the breaking-up stunt , do n't you ? ’ |
| 13 | The Chelonian 's eyes stared vacantly at the roof of the tent . |
| 14 | Lloyd beamed and a couple of the Dennison brothers laughed dutifully at the in-joke which went over me . |
| 15 | CANDIDATES gathered anxiously at the Guildhall on Thursday to await the results of the Derry City Council election . |
| 16 | Dickinson got down and held back the prickly branches while Killion blundered out , his lips triphammering away at the opening consonants of all the swear-words he knew . |
| 17 | She swung her long tanned legs over the edge of the bed , forgetting for a moment that she was naked underneath the loosely tied robe , and when she stood up she could feel his eyes trailing insultingly at the V where her naked breasts could be glimpsed . |
| 18 | Similar proposals put forward at the end of World War I , to provide financial support via NHI to women after childbirth , were rejected largely because it was felt that they would offer an inducement to married women to work . |
| 19 | Thus significant fractionation of O isotopes occurs only at the surface of the Earth . |
| 20 | However , single pairs breed regularly at the Cuckmere estuary and about 12 pairs do so between Rye and the Midrips . |
| 21 | Fierce repression failed to eliminate the growing strength of the Social Democrats , and in 1887 , after decades of faction fighting , the groups came together at the Hainfeld Congress to form a single multinational party under the foremost Social Democrat , Victor Adler . |
| 22 | The interiors of a number of parish churches were similarly transformed as the Laudian bishops campaigned vigorously for the erection of altars positioned permanently at the east end of the chancel and railed off from the nave . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Prenton Park 's biggest crowd of the season saw the Republic of Ireland international grab a hat-trick and take his tally for the season to 17 goals , as Rovers struck twice at the death to clinch the points . |
| 25 | ‘ Absolutely , ’ said Jean , whose lips and fingers tingled slightly at the opportunity to say as much . |
| 26 | Where the tracks turns right at the woods , walk ahead to the gap in the hedge where the path joins the Ridgeway ( 639 032 ) . |
| 27 | FITTER , and electrical supervisor , celebrated their combined 50 years service recently at the Belstead Brook Hotel , Ipswich . |
| 28 | Jane and children plan to fly out to Cape Town when the boats dock there at the end of the third leg in April . |
| 29 | Many Clintonites look ruefully at the surge in Paddy Ashdown 's polls after the adultery confession . |
| 30 | Her cheeks flamed even at the thought . |