Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This was the moment when Melody chose to knock at the door and Anna 's head jerked back , away from him . |
| 32 | Mum and Dad were all tight and not saying much and Annie just chatted away to me in the back and Simon kept licking at the suitcase like it was a bone or summat . |
| 33 | Last night parents in the North of Scotland gathered to protest at the decision by Dornoch Academy to opt out of local authority control . |
| 34 | Last night parents in the North of Scotland gathered to protest at the decision by Dornoch Academy to opt out of local authority control . |
| 35 | Byelarus and Ukraine had stated at the Dec. 21 meeting that they wished to sign the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . |
| 36 | His mouth was dry again , last week Conker had shied at a gorse bush and he 'd come off . |
| 37 | ‘ I 'll leave out some of my clothes to replace those , ’ Susan said , gesturing towards the clothes Maggie had acquired at The Haven . |
| 38 | Nell continued to stare at the sea for a very long time . |
| 39 | Sharpe had stopped at the ford to let the horses drink . |
| 40 | Section three , goes in there , and then I 'll give you your induction report back , which Alan 's got at the moment , and that goes in section three , and that 's fantastic eh , so let's have a nibble something to eat . |
| 41 | Jane sat mesmerised at the array of expensive and exclusive shops that lined the narrow street — this was not how she imagined Dublin . |
| 42 | Meanwhile Maggie stayed sitting at the kitchen table . |
| 43 | Morse turned to look at the waters once more before he left , then sat silently in the passenger-seat of the police car as Lewis had a final word with Sergeant Dixon . |
| 44 | Patrick turned to look at the street , wondering what had brought Collins here ; but it seemed just another poor tenement side street . |
| 45 | Although the USSR has hinted at the possibility of cooperation with the GCC over issues of Gulf security , its attitude to this body , especially over GCC plans for coordinated security arrangements , remained negative in the early 1980s . |
| 46 | A small opportunity arose when Lizzie came knocking at the door for the ceremonial delivery of two silver-bound shoulder sprays , one , a gardenia , the other an orchid , and a card which said : From Robert . |
| 47 | Parents at Holyrood , which accepts large numbers of youngsters through placing requests because of its good academic record , believe that Strathclyde condones overcrowding at the school and resent it . |
| 48 | There is an urgent need for new members to serve on the Finance Committee and as Joan Daniels wishes to retire at the end of the present financial year we will also need a new Treasurer to take her place . |
| 49 | Marrakesh has long been a winter watering hole for the rich , the chic and the famous and the Shah had arrived at the height of the tourist season . |
| 50 | Alyssia had looked at the girl in amazement , beginning to feel disproportionately angry at this unexpected anticlimax . |
| 51 | Christine Griffin ( 1985 ) looked at a group of girls in the same way as Willis had looked at the boys . |
| 52 | Con had jumped at the chance of taking Cedric and the pair had apparently settled in happily together . |
| 53 | Coleridge wished to study at a university ; he went to Ratzeburg and Göttingen , enjoying himself immensely , and stayed till July 1799 . |
| 54 | Hugh and Prior Robert had arrived at the priory late in the evening , paid their respects to the prior , attended Vespers to do reverence to the saints of the foundation , Saints Oswald and Wulstan , and taken Herluin and his attendants into their confidence about the loss , or at the very least the misplacement , of Saint Winifred 's reliquary ; with a sharp eye , at least on Hugh 's part , for the way the news was received . |
| 55 | The one he and Julia had found at the asylum did n't seem to have too much connection with the one Theodora had mentioned she had come across at St Saviour 's . |
| 56 | At an extraordinary plenum of the Tadjik CP central committee on Feb. 16 Makhkamov 's resignation was refused and Vaadad was criticized for contributing to the destabilization of the situation in Tadjikistan ; indeed a special commission was set up to investigate allegations that a group of Tadjik communists allied to Vaadad had plotted at the height of the Dushanbe unrest to seize power from Khayeyev 's government and install as Prime Minister Buri Karimov , currently a Deputy Prime Minister but also the Vaadad chairman . |
| 57 | All night long the thought of his being hand in glove with Harry Martin had lingered at the back of her mind . |
| 58 | However , love or no love , Martin had arrived at the gallery one morning , with his small baby in his arms , and the news that his wife had left him , and the clear expectation of help of some kind from Clelia . |
| 59 | Girls often had gifts like that , Rosalind Swain had said at the time , especially in adolescence . |
| 60 | Colt had laughed at the Captain and the men around him , laughed until they took out their failure on him with the most savage beating he had ever received . |