Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes narrowed dangerously at the undisguised sarcasm in her voice |
| 2 | His lips sucked eagerly at the golden liquid . |
| 3 | At the top a glass cocktail bar slowly revolved , and drinkers exclaimed gaily at the changing spectacle of industrial buildings under construction . |
| 4 | Professor Connor , in a fascinating paper on computers in classical studies , claims that computers came just at the wrong time , at a time when scholar 's interests were moving from textual studies to critical theory , women 's studies and the like . |
| 5 | According to the foreign journalists camped out at the Intercontinental Hotel for weeks hoping for a simple soundbite from El Presidente , he was not seeing anyone . |
| 6 | About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners . |
| 7 | PARISHIONERS and clergy looked back at the past year on Sunday when Headley 's annual vestry and parish meetings were held at the Church Centre . |
| 8 | Following several crocodile attacks on the Zambezi , Erdnow Fantasy Products have now designed crocodile eyes aimed specifically at the intrepid paddler . |
| 9 | Macrovision Inc , Mountain View , and Philips Electronics NV 's Philips Semiconductors came together at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show this week to announce that Philips ' new NTSC and PAL colour encoder chips will include Macrovision 's patented pay-per-view anti-copy system . |
| 10 | ‘ Thing is , Barbs barged in at an inconvenient moment when my brothers were moving some stuff into my place , and they came over all paranoid and looked at her very old-fashioned , and while I know they would n't do anything to her , now she 's gone missing I ca n't help wondering . |
| 11 | The steel tracks ground along at a steady rate , flattening glorious highly-finned autos , scattering pedestrians and levelling lampposts . |
| 12 | The generator revved up and down , providing power to the automatic launcher ; it had some sort of randomly set variation built into where it was aiming because the clays came out at a different angle and heading each time . |
| 13 | Should they be making low-budget films pitched largely at the local market and emphasizing their Britishness , as the critics demand , or big films on the Hollywood model for the world ? |
| 14 | Ben 's cheeks reddened slightly at the warm , deeply sincere note in Ross 's voice . |
| 15 | Even in that jungly light I see something does n't add up : can a corpse have half a nose and two fingers busted off at the first joint ? |
| 16 | Even after the Union of the Crowns there remained a long period during which old traditions and suspicions simmered uneasily , and old local enmities flared up at the slightest provocation . |
| 17 | French firms arrived late at the foreign-investment auction and paid high prices as a result . |
| 18 | As well as the 150MHz Alpha AXP machines designed to run Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , Digital Equipment Corp has begun developing a new line of Alpha microprocessors addressed specifically at the personal computer market , according to US PC Week . |
| 19 | And Sue Rorstad chairman and managing director of Darlington based Poppies hit out at the six industrialists who praised the Government 's message of self reliance . |
| 20 | Matchsticks sneered down at the shaking woman , then turned nonchalantly towards the front door . |
| 21 | Even if Fiver 's wrong and nothing terrible hits happened back at the old warren , I 'd still say we 're better off here . |
| 22 | Neighbours looked up at the dark windows at night and wondered what could be hidden there , under dust sheets . |
| 23 | At midnight the solitary guard leaning in the shadows looked up at the conjoining planets and wondered idly what change in his fortunes they might herald . |
| 24 | A few Tory Members laughed heartily at the right hon. Gentleman 's contribution to our understanding , but the reality is that if the European fighter aircraft programme falls through , there will be redundancies among the most skilled sector of our manufacturing work force . |
| 25 | Her maids stood off at a slight distance , amongst the trees , talking quietly amongst themselves and pretending not to watch her , but she knew they were as inquisitive as she . |
| 26 | Alexei peered ahead at the swirling vapour which shrouded the place where the bridge met the face of another building . |
| 27 | Outside two young men peered in at the lighted women with their bottles and Jonquil 's cans of Carlsberg . |
| 28 | THE subject of minimum wages came up at The Northern/KPMG Peat Marwick Business Briefing when Sir Ian Wrigglesworth ( CBI , Lib-Dem , ex-Labour ) was the guest speaker . |
| 29 | That afternoon two more carcasses turned up at the northern end of Butterwick Low , and another two were reported from the Norfolk coast , close to Cromer . |
| 30 | Together the two men looked again at the light wound , stretching down diagonally from the back of the neck towards the armpit . |