Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Miss Honey looked at the plain plump person with the smug suet-pudding face who was sitting across the room .
2 Nicosia : The Cisco index closed at a new high of 185.6 , a gain of 2.1 points on the week .
3 Miss Hazelwood sat at a high centre desk , seemingly reading a book .
4 Mrs. Hennessy looked at the open suitcase .
5 Richard Langton stared at the young girl before him .
6 If I understood him correctly , this is an aspect of what David Parkin described at the 1973 Association of Social Anthropologists Conference as Personal Anthropology .
7 When Ruth and Miss Beard arrived at the rear door of the house , the carriage was already waiting .
8 Kathleen Lavender stared at the three envelopes , two white , one brown , one long , two small .
9 Neil Sissons studied at the Royal College of Music , before becoming organ scholar of Worcester College , Oxford .
10 Lucy Telford drove at a steady pace , her mind occupied by the task set for her by Aunt Bertha .
11 Also new for is a range-topping automatic version of the Vento VR priced at a competitive £20 ,
12 Colonel Moore had left his card and the next morning , at a careful eleven o'clock , Colonel Hope called at the rented villa on the lakeside .
13 Stefanos Manos remained at the National Economy Ministry , but now assumed responsibility for Finance also , in a move to facilitate the process of economic reform .
14 Li Shai Tung stared at the urbane , highly-sophisticated man standing at his side and laughed briefly , bemused that Shepherd could see himself in that brutal portrait .
15 Then US Open champion Pete Sampras fell at the same hurdle to Thierry Champion .
16 ELISABETH DANZIGER STOOD AT THE OPEN window and watched the gulls swoop round the house , fly straight out to sea and then drop suddenly for prey .
17 Even Ken Lomax and Ray Shepherd seemed at a vast distance from them .
18 While the symbols of civilization processed with full panoply of State through the streets of London , out on the eastern marshes the North Sea nudged at the coastal defences which had been hastily shored up after the calamity just four months before .
19 Several hours after their withdrawal , the 11 soldiers and Dr Mardell arrived at the Serbian town of Banja Koviljaca .
20 Alison Rubenstein discovered at an early age that if you want to get on in the world and have a good career , hard work is not enough — qualifications can also be a great help .
21 At half past two this afternoon Mr Cruikshanks injected at the crural arteries 5 pints of Oil of Turpentine mixed with Venice Turpentine and Vermillion .
22 In the kitchen Mrs Blakey comforted her and Mr Blakey sat at the scrubbed table stirring sugar into a cup of tea .
23 Sister Rosario looked at the pinched face of Maura Ryan and her heart went out to the child .
24 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 .
25 Mr Christopher said at a joint news conference in Damascus with Syria 's foreign minister , Farouq al-Shara , after talks with President Hafez al-Assad : ‘ President Assad emphasised his commitment to the process of direct negotiations that were launched in Madrid and welcomed the US role as a full partner in the process . ’
26 As Ernest Bevin said at the Labour rally the other day — ‘
27 Now , a tale of mysterious goings-on in the Bronze Age.New evidence uncovered at an archaeological dig suggests it may have been the site of ritual human sacrifices .
28 Despite the summit 's deferral of direct aid , President Bush reaffirmed at the final press conference that the Group of Seven was united in its desire to help the Soviet Union , and that its decisions on this matter should be seen as " positive " .
29 Soup kitchens were opened to feed the destitute ; in Chicago people waited at the back doors of restaurants for left-over food .
30 One of these was Doctor Jekyll 's house , and Mr Utterson knocked at the front door .
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