Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Her words tailed off at the expression in his eyes .
2 Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps .
3 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 .
4 The marquis 's lips turned down at the corners .
5 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 .
6 And from the depths of the pool little yellow frogs stared up at the nomes .
7 Silver-gilt hair flowed behind her , clear eyes looked out at the world and her fresh skin was tinted with delicate colour .
8 ‘ 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 . ’
9 But she seemed unaware of it as her green eyes glared back at the man who had struck her .
10 One of soccer 's great trouble-shooters clocked in at the Cadbury 's chocolate factory where Rovers train but the last thing that greeted him was the sweet smell of success .
11 Her wide blue eyes swept up at the waiter as if considering him .
12 The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years .
13 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 .
14 A stream of visitors turned up at the camp .
15 Then on Wednesday , hearses from two funeral companies turned up at the morgue to claim the body .
16 The two directors looked up at the top of the Opera House .
17 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 .
18 Women with stiff-brimmed panama hats turned up at the side and pinned with giant rosettes .
19 She remembered one of the ideas chucked around at the brainstorming session a week ago : a series on Eligible Males .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 The doves flew in at the mouths and made their nests inside .
23 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 .
24 Newspapers love a good disaster , and a wedding where the bridegroom 's trousers fell down at the altar would stand a far better chance of being reported than one that went without a hitch .
25 Even the men cleaning their weapons looked up at the mention of the name .
26 A lack of narrative drive leaves the reader with piecemeal vignettes , an impression confirmed by the poems tacked on at the end of the book .
27 The herb beds should be lightly dug over with a fork , weeded if necessary , and the invasive plants chopped back at the roots .
28 If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem .
29 This brings us to the third , and for our purposes the most significant , of the problems laid out at the start of this section .
30 He wore a tight khaki shirt , buttoned at the neck , and threadbare army denims turned up at the bottom .
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