Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] at [art] [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 | Her words tailed off at the expression in his eyes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 5 | Still they waited , as the Scots came on at a canter . |
| 6 | The dog , after lapping a little water , went and sat down heavily beside him , eyes turned up at the portrait of itself thoughtfully , perhaps making a critical assessment of it . |
| 7 | Candy 's cornflower-blue eyes widened incredulously at the sacrilege . |
| 8 | Ajayi looked up at the door to the winding-stair expecting to see an attendant , but the voice had come from behind her , and she could see Quiss 's face starting to turn red , his eyes widening , the lines around them spreading out further . |
| 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 | Silver-gilt hair flowed behind her , clear eyes looked out at the world and her fresh skin was tinted with delicate colour . |
| 12 | Lloyd beamed and a couple of the Dennison brothers laughed dutifully at the in-joke which went over me . |
| 13 | ‘ One year ’ — Māilo 's eyes lit up at the memory — ‘ I sold so many musk pods at the Indian border that I could hardly walk back , my pockets were so weighted down with silver coins . ’ |
| 14 | But she seemed unaware of it as her green eyes glared back at the man who had struck her . |
| 15 | Her wide blue eyes swept up at the waiter as if considering him . |
| 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 goal though , was against the run of play and sure enough , Rovers came back at the start of the second half with an equaliser from Kenny Irons . |
| 18 | A stream of visitors turned up at the camp . |
| 19 | Then on Wednesday , hearses from two funeral companies turned up at the morgue to claim the body . |
| 20 | The two directors looked up at the top of the Opera House . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As the Cheshires sped away , soldiers in one of the Land Rovers leaped out at a road block to take up positions in a ditch and provide covering fire with their SA80 automatic rifles . |
| 23 | Two riders turned in at the approach to the castle , the rest of the cavalcade swept onward through the gate , flung open to give them passage , and vanished in a flurry of spume and fine mud along the foregate . |
| 24 | ‘ Absolutely , ’ said Jean , whose lips and fingers tingled slightly at the opportunity to say as much . |
| 25 | Women with stiff-brimmed panama hats turned up at the side and pinned with giant rosettes . |
| 26 | She remembered one of the ideas chucked around at the brainstorming session a week ago : a series on Eligible Males . |
| 27 | Her cheeks flamed even at the thought . |
| 28 | I saw Sybil on ‘ Top of the Pops ’ the day before I started work on the book and she was wearing a gold bra top , huge fake-gold earrings and black trousers pulled in at the waist . |
| 29 | They are much easier to fit earlier than later ; wires can be more easily concealed and circuits worked out at the start of kitchen planning . |
| 30 | For example , when troubles blew up at the Heath Town Estate in the Midlands they were immediately compared with Broadwater Farm and the place labelled a ghetto in the way the media treated the incident . |