Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes gazed at the yellow light on the ceiling . |
| 2 | Yuan 's eyes flickered at the vocative title ‘ sei-sen ’ — ‘ sword bearer ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Her eyes flared at the stinging insult , only too aware that he outstripped her professionally . |
| 5 | Two fierce eyes glared at the terror-stricken sailors . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Rostov 's lips twitched at the new interpretation of his son 's name . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | SCOTTISH fencers excelled at the British Age Group Championships , Croydon . |
| 10 | The most serious of the disorders occurred at the Broadwater Farm Estate , in Tottenham , London . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Labour fingers jabbed at the Liberal Democrats , while Tory order papers were waved in the air . |
| 16 | Parallel procedural changes occurred at the same time in the Senate , but other factors were at work there too . |
| 17 | Nine panels exploded at the Scottish Exhibition Centre , Glasgow . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As delegates arrived at the Grand Kremlin Palace , hundreds of pro and anti-Yeltsin demonstrators rallied on Red Square . |
| 20 | When officers arrived at the High Row , a large group of anti-fascist campaigners had arrived and were chanting slogans at the BNP . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Foreign investors looked at the higher yield of gilts over German government bonds without worrying about exchange risk . |
| 23 | Matchsticks bawled at the hysterical woman and began slopping contents from the petrol can over the front of her dressing gown . |
| 24 | Several other firms emerged at the same time and by the same process , such as Lamalie Associates in 1967 from Booz , Allen & Hamilton , and Ward Howell and Canny Bowen , in 1951 and 1954 respectively , from McKinsey . |
| 25 | 4 I had a terrible dream — I was being chased round the Tower of London by a gyre frabjous. 5 Seventeen whiffling Jabberwocks burbled at the vorpal dagger brandished under the Tumtum tree by our brave hero . |
| 26 | Although it is doubtful that throughout the middle ages masters and servants ate at the same table , above and below the salt , as the Victorians supposed , the Gothic hall , entered directly from the outside world and accommodating every social rank , symbolized their ideal of social integration . |
| 27 | After twenty minutes , three trains arrived at the same time . |
| 28 | Wolski shuddered at the grim scene , made worse by this normally peaceful African tawny eagle being angry and stressed over nothing he could see . |
| 29 | Sales rose 11 p.c. to £314m in 1991 and profits grew at the same rate , to £13.4m before taxation . |
| 30 | It has since been pointed out by Digby McLaren ( 1970 ) that many other groups disappeared at the same level or underwent traumatic changes . |