Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] at the [noun sg] " 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 | Once you have all your lists of goals written somewhere at the front of your diary , you are ready to start . |
| 7 | Candy 's cornflower-blue eyes widened incredulously at the sacrilege . |
| 8 | Hale 's eyes stare knowingly at the viewer , a human sacrifice to an alienated and consumerist culture . |
| 9 | I like that Harrow School Song the kids sang yesterday at the breaking-up stunt , do n't you ? ’ |
| 10 | The Chelonian 's eyes stared vacantly at the roof of the tent . |
| 11 | Lloyd beamed and a couple of the Dennison brothers laughed dutifully at the in-joke which went over me . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Thus significant fractionation of O isotopes occurs only at the surface of the Earth . |
| 15 | However , single pairs breed regularly at the Cuckmere estuary and about 12 pairs do so between Rye and the Midrips . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Absolutely , ’ said Jean , whose lips and fingers tingled slightly at the opportunity to say as much . |
| 20 | Jane and children plan to fly out to Cape Town when the boats dock there at the end of the third leg in April . |
| 21 | Many Clintonites look ruefully at the surge in Paddy Ashdown 's polls after the adultery confession . |
| 22 | Her cheeks flamed even at the thought . |
| 23 | On top of that , for the remaining three days each week , several of its 23 permanent commissions beaver away at the mountain of legislation that is being thrust before them . |
| 24 | Belushi exudes all the erotic charisma of a frozen carp , Bracco looks and acts as if she 's just signed up with a Dial a Dime Hostess service and there are various large signposts pointing firmly at The Murderer . |
| 25 | They had shown the cluster of dark low-roofed buildings huddled together at the road 's side , reaching far back into the hillside . |
| 26 | She felt her cheeks pale just at the thought of it . |
| 27 | Hong Kong government officials shudder privately at the thought of having to organise the allocation . |
| 28 | Expatriates returning home at the end of their tour of duty can expect payment of travel expenses to their homes and hotel accommodation if necessary . |
| 29 | It has all necessary powers to look again at the problem it has created and decide whether it is in the overall interest of the locality to have a commercial port . |
| 30 | AMERICAN scientists have found an effect that may cast doubt on a whole body of research in the evolution of the Solar System , as well as making physicists look again at the subject of isotopes , forms of the same element that differ in the number of neutrons in the nucleus . |