Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] at the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Silver-gilt hair flowed behind her , clear eyes looked out at the world and her fresh skin was tinted with delicate colour . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | But she seemed unaware of it as her green eyes glared back at the man who had struck her . |
| 8 | Her wide blue eyes swept up at the waiter as if considering him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A stream of visitors turned up at the camp . |
| 11 | Then on Wednesday , hearses from two funeral companies turned up at the morgue to claim the body . |
| 12 | The two directors looked up at the top of the Opera House . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Women with stiff-brimmed panama hats turned up at the side and pinned with giant rosettes . |
| 15 | She remembered one of the ideas chucked around at the brainstorming session a week ago : a series on Eligible Males . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Even the men cleaning their weapons looked up at the mention of the name . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem . |
| 23 | This brings us to the third , and for our purposes the most significant , of the problems laid out at the start of this section . |
| 24 | He wore a tight khaki shirt , buttoned at the neck , and threadbare army denims turned up at the bottom . |
| 25 | Trade union leaders may well enter into " social contracts " with governments and pledge themselves and their members to wage restraint and productivity improvements in return for social benefits and an extension of trade union powers , but their control over their own members is limited and unofficial strikes can , and have , destroyed deals worked out at the top . |
| 26 | We 'll certainly be putting firms in touch with others so that they can learn quickly from other experiences as quite a network of firms grew up at the seminar . |
| 27 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 28 | She had talked of a sex scene when she was on Wogan , but he assumed it would be something more romantic — a magnolia bud of a tit peeping from beneath bed linen as she held out her arms to her lover and the lights went down at the end of the play . |
| 29 | A dish he calls Maltese curry — an unlikely and most interesting mixture of onions , tomatoes and fruit with eggs mixed in at the end of the cooking , rather in the pipérade manner — was another recipe he repeated in several of his books . |
| 30 | At Exeter in 1726 the serge weavers were said to have " Clubs , where none but weavers are admitted ; and that they have their ensigns and flags hung out at the door of their meetings " . |