Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court heard one of the burglaries occurred at an old people 's home . |
| 2 | IF there was one occasion that summed up sporting attitudes in l992 , it was Carl Lewis 's bizarre attempt to set an Olympic record for the greatest number of journalists asphyxiated at a single press conference . |
| 3 | Her eyes gazed at the yellow light on the ceiling . |
| 4 | Yuan 's eyes flickered at the vocative title ‘ sei-sen ’ — ‘ sword bearer ’ . |
| 5 | He was also a reformer and builder ; his reforms were far-reaching in administration and law while the arts flourished at a high level . |
| 6 | It was from this starting-point that the structuralists arrived at the radical view that all meaning in every sphere of human activity consists of closed systems wholly independent of the material world . |
| 7 | Her eyes flared at the stinging insult , only too aware that he outstripped her professionally . |
| 8 | His shoulders sloped at an alarming angle so that he looked like a pyramid wearing a hat . |
| 9 | Two fierce eyes glared at the terror-stricken sailors . |
| 10 | As the insects met a sticky death on her windscreen and brambles and gorse bushes clawed at the bright sides of her hired Fiat , she wondered if she should have stayed at home and if she would ever , in fact , see ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 11 | Rostov 's lips twitched at the new interpretation of his son 's name . |
| 12 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 13 | Both meetings came at an important time in Russia 's relationship with the rest of the world and at a critical time for world peace and stability . |
| 14 | SCOTTISH fencers excelled at the British Age Group Championships , Croydon . |
| 15 | The most serious of the disorders occurred at the Broadwater Farm Estate , in Tottenham , London . |
| 16 | EURO DISNEYLAND , a little bit of America in the flat farmlands of Seine-et-Marne to the east of Paris , opened an hour earlier than planned yesterday as thousands of visitors arrived at the Enchanted Kingdom . |
| 17 | DNA was isolated from the reaction mixtures and checked for its susceptibility to cleavage by restriction endonuclease Eco RII , which fails to cleave CC A / T GG sites methylated at the inner cytosine residue . |
| 18 | A pair of researchers arrived at the extraordinary conclusion that fusion of deuterons could be achieved without the application of massive external energy , which had previously been thought to be an indispensable condition . |
| 19 | Each of the poems looked at a different sort of love : that of parents and children , of friends , of lovers , of God … . |
| 20 | Nearly a third of the principal carers complained at the first interview about the adverse effects of looking after the dementia sufferer upon their own physical or mental health . |
| 21 | Labour fingers jabbed at the Liberal Democrats , while Tory order papers were waved in the air . |
| 22 | This would make it easy to disconnect them in case there was a need to make changes , or if problems arose at a later date . |
| 23 | Parallel procedural changes occurred at the same time in the Senate , but other factors were at work there too . |
| 24 | Nine panels exploded at the Scottish Exhibition Centre , Glasgow . |
| 25 | Hoping to find important documents , the special ‘ capture group ’ of the Moscow and Russian departments of the ministry of internal affairs arrived at the central committee buildings at 4pm and ordered all workers to quit the buildings without briefcases within an hour , leaving their doors and safes open . |
| 26 | As delegates arrived at the Grand Kremlin Palace , hundreds of pro and anti-Yeltsin demonstrators rallied on Red Square . |
| 27 | When officers arrived at the High Row , a large group of anti-fascist campaigners had arrived and were chanting slogans at the BNP . |
| 28 | We will never know how that would develop because community charge has been abolished but anyway You will note of course as well that last year in nineteen ninety one , the Conservative Party managers looked at the local election result and decided not to go in June ninety one , cos they figured they would get beaten . |
| 29 | Foreign investors looked at the higher yield of gilts over German government bonds without worrying about exchange risk . |
| 30 | Matchsticks bawled at the hysterical woman and began slopping contents from the petrol can over the front of her dressing gown . |