Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individuals doing their own thing does not work , as Jacques Chirac found out at a 1988 Paris rally . |
| 2 | Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left . |
| 3 | One would have thought that the Great Depression years in the United States had provided a suitable testing ground for the efficacy of the real-balance effect , but , as Patinkin pointed out at an early stage in the development of the neoclassical synthesis , a large increase in real balances appeared to be accompanied by a large fall in output . |
| 4 | West Indies soon lost Haynes , but Richards , on his home ground , and Greenidge set off at an explosive pace with 45 off the first seven overs . |
| 5 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
| 6 | Helen stared doggedly at a Swiss cheese plant . |
| 7 | English painters never did the same , clustering at Hastings or Margate or Eastbourne to gaze out at a grumpy , monotonous Channel . |
| 8 | " Yes , of course , " Nicandra sniffed suspiciously at a vacant , scentless strength ; " Where did you find it ? " |
| 9 | Socialist Sweden came out at a hefty $27.10 . |
| 10 | Pinkie chewed away at a raw fragment . |
| 11 | Daughter Laura weighed in at a healthy 61b 4oz . |
| 12 | Ashley looked up at a grey ball of a cloud which hung directly overhead . |