Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier she had listened intently as a statement by Cheshires commanding officer Lt Col Bob Stewart read out at the hearing told how L/Cpl Edwards ' killer had not been traced . |
| 2 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never eaten them , ’ Richard gazed up at the man , his clear chestnut eyes , starry with their thick lashes , open wide as he judged the amount of pathos necessary to achieve his aim . |
| 4 | Sylvie gazed out at the eternity of blue and took a long , deep breath . |
| 5 | Barbara Buhler looks back at the effect of criticism on Georgia O'Keeffe 's art in the 1920s |
| 6 | Richard squinted up at the sun then fell into step beside her . |
| 7 | At a Labour conference you get Gerry Adams turning up at a fringe meeting , and he the leader of Sinn Fein , which is cousin to the IRA , which in 1984 , in this same town , blew up the Grand Hotel in an attempt to murder the Prime Minister and Cabinet . |
| 8 | Rocky nodded down at the girl between them . |
| 9 | Lucy glanced down at the book lying open on the desk . |
| 10 | And in the third part , " Tuami glanced back at the gap through the mountain and saw that it was full of golden light and the sun was sitting in it " . |
| 11 | Travis glanced up at the lowering sun . |
| 12 | As Sabrina stood outside the hotel on the Place de la Gare staring up at the Cathedral 's spire silhouetted against the dark , sombre skyline , she let her thoughts drift back over the hours since their departure from New York 's John F. Kennedy Airport . |
| 13 | Then Adams hit out at the dismissal of defenceman Mike Ware , saying : ‘ We 're told Mike went for a Fife player — he never hit him . |
| 14 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 15 | Fortinbras coming in at the end , when Hamlet 's dead and everyone 's dead . |
| 16 | Hennessy looked down at the slip of paper that he was being offered . |
| 17 | Ruthven looked up at the birds wheeling and twisting against the blue sky . |
| 18 | Corbett looked back at the tavern doorway now thronged with onlookers . |
| 19 | Someone 's brother , baby son , or lover he thought and now he was gone : Corbett looked down at the corpse and felt the futility of the death . |
| 20 | Maxham stared up at the ceiling . |
| 21 | Crossley looked down at the corpse , the breeze bringing the stench of blood and excrement to his nostrils . |
| 22 | As we entered the kitchen Pat looked up at the roof and the large gaping hole caused by a shell that had passed through two floors then smashed through the kitchen door , ending up in the garden . |
| 23 | Grandson Richard stared down at the nome on his shoulder . |
| 24 | Oxford United 's new manager Denis Smith and his assistant Malcolm Crosby took over at the Manor Ground today ( WES NEXT ) |
| 25 | Bernice looked around at the city . |
| 26 | Jinkwa stared down at the creature 's ugly face . |
| 27 | Little Amaru looked down at the street and kicked a can with his red gumboots . |
| 28 | Richard looked out at the sun and the trees with a quickening heart . |
| 29 | Molly looked round at the party . |
| 30 | Travis looked down at the jade . |