Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] at the [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 | Mrs. Hennessy looked at the open suitcase . |
3 | Richard Langton stared at the young girl before him . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | When Ruth and Miss Beard arrived at the rear door of the house , the carriage was already waiting . |
6 | Kathleen Lavender stared at the three envelopes , two white , one brown , one long , two small . |
7 | Neil Sissons studied at the Royal College of Music , before becoming organ scholar of Worcester College , Oxford . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Then US Open champion Pete Sampras fell at the same hurdle to Thierry Champion . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Several hours after their withdrawal , the 11 soldiers and Dr Mardell arrived at the Serbian town of Banja Koviljaca . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | In the kitchen Mrs Blakey comforted her and Mr Blakey sat at the scrubbed table stirring sugar into a cup of tea . |
17 | Sister Rosario looked at the pinched face of Maura Ryan and her heart went out to the child . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | As Ernest Bevin said at the Labour rally the other day — ‘ |
20 | 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 " . |
21 | Soup kitchens were opened to feed the destitute ; in Chicago people waited at the back doors of restaurants for left-over food . |
22 | One of these was Doctor Jekyll 's house , and Mr Utterson knocked at the front door . |
23 | Mr Utterson stared at the closed door . |
24 | Madame Giry looked at the two men and laughed . |
25 | Mr Berkley glanced at the young man beside him . |
26 | Mr Clark admitted at the Old Bailey he encouraged British firms to sell sanction-busting military equipment to Iraq . |
27 | I had hired a moped in Tiree , there being no bicycles left , and like a multicoloured Batman Snoopy in my Mary Quant cape arrived at the Balemartine Baptist church for morning service . |
28 | Mrs Lynde looked at the thin little girl in the short dress , with her freckled face and red hair . |
29 | Rose Quinton looked at the extraordinary man and thought as many another had : what a pity ! |
30 | The United Kingdom announced at the same time that it was freeing Iraqi assets worth £70,000,000 ( about US$126,000,000 ) , but a UK Foreign Office spokesman denied allegations that Richer 's release had been secured by an unpublicised arrangement between Iraq and the UK , said to involve the unfreezing of part of £621,400,000 ( US$1,100 million ) held by banks in the UK . |