Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His strong face , lined by age and illness , framed a pair of kindly eyes that softened at the sight of her . |
| 2 | He opened his eyes and glanced at the clock beside his bed . |
| 3 | Ronni opened her eyes and stared at the moon , feeling her poor heart quiver inside her . |
| 4 | Nell raised her eyes and looked at the rest of the body ; and caught her breath . |
| 5 | She shut her eyes and tugged at the rope , sending the boat soaring high up over the scruffy , stinking little fair and the bare-headed people and the wide , comfortable , pleasure-loving river . |
| 6 | Ronni looked into his eyes and smiled at the compliment , inwardly shuddering as he took her in his arms and proceeded to lead her in time to the music . |
| 7 | He went and got his overcoat and put it on over his pyjamas and sat at the table smoking a cigarette . |
| 8 | He put a supporting arm round Farquhar 's shoulders and grinned at the men rowing only hard enough to hold the ship steady . |
| 9 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 10 | Wycliffe walked to work with a salty taste on his lips and arrived at the Incident Room as the little printer was opening up . |
| 11 | I thought that maybe Elsie went under finally sickened and stifled by the righteous attitudes that prevailed at the time . |
| 12 | The amount of surplus ACT included in the claim must be capable of being determined by reference to circumstances that existed at the time of the claim ( see Proctor & Gamble Ltd v Taylerson ( 1990 ) STC 624 ) . |
| 13 | Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other . |
| 14 | He blew out his fat , purpled cheeks , dug his hands deep in his breeches pockets and looked at the sky with a martyred air . |
| 15 | She tucked her hands under her armpits and stared at the ground . |
| 16 | Now , we 've used this technique in invasive bladder cancer , and we 've quantified the micro-vascularity in a group of invasive cancers and looked at the prognosis and metastasis . |
| 17 | She immediately sprang to her feet and shouted at the top of her voice : ‘ HEY HAL . |
| 18 | She prowled among the desks and glowered at the action boards as if they were a bunch of football hooligans . |
| 19 | ‘ No , ’ he answered , and he picked at one of the nails on his fingers and stared at the floorboards wishing he could disappear into them . |
| 20 | Athelstan ground his teeth and glared at the coroner but Sir John smiled sweetly back as if innocent of any devious stratagem . |
| 21 | She finished her notes and looked at the list of suspects . |
| 22 | She knew there were things she should be trying to sort out in her life , but she did n't want to face up to certain ideas that lurked at the back of her mind . |
| 23 | The sledger shouted and kicked , he cursed the dogs and swore at the television crew The dogs slept on and the race went past him . |
| 24 | Marin won the Grand Prix de Sculpture in 1801 and then moved to Rome where he stayed at the Villa Medici for ten years and taught at the Accademia di San Luca . |
| 25 | It should wear off eventually — in a week , a month or a year — depending on the astrological and meteorological conditions that prevailed at the time she launched it . |
| 26 | I left them as I approached No. 6 Commando positions and stood at the side of the road and watched them all pass by . |
| 27 | When he was full he leaned back on his haunches and looked at the mess of blood and flesh . |
| 28 | Doyle indicated the tall building , just visible behind the scattered beech and ash trees that clustered at the bottom of every garden , and along the small roadways . |
| 29 | there is 's ‘ particles of fire ’ theory of heat set in the context of the arguments that raged at the time : that is , heat as a fluid ( caloric ) versus heat as motion ( kinetic ) . |
| 30 | A raven swooped down from its perch in the rafters and dived at the wizard , talons open and gleaming . |