Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doyle peered at the crumpled figure . |
| 2 | Nervously Meredith gazed at the open water ahead and then back at Venice , the minarets and bell-towers , the tall palaces just a distant unfocused blur in the morning mist . |
| 3 | While referring to the Treasury waggon which had been taken near Quatre Bras , von Keller 's counsel omitted to say anything about one particular carriage grouped with other captured vehicles at the village of Villers Perwin situated at a short distance from the Charleroi road near Quatre Bras . |
| 4 | Nellie asked at the front door . |
| 5 | Corbett gazed at the distant line of trees . |
| 6 | Markby swished at a trailing bramble with a piece of stick . |
| 7 | Lido di Camaiore lies at the northern end of Viareggio , next to Marina di Pietrasanta , in the most fashionable part of the Tuscan coast . |
| 8 | ’ Bernice shouted at the giggling body beneath her . |
| 9 | Tonight in the first of two reports , Richard Barnett looks at the traditional family links that have sustained the regiment down the centuries , in The Glosters … |
| 10 | He smiled without humour when Frankie sucked at the soap-filled cloth in order to sluice the taste of rancid beck-water from his mouth . |
| 11 | Gorbachev declared at a joint press conference on July 16 that " the united Germany , sovereign in every way , will say to which bloc it wants to belong " , thus effectively conceding that Germany could be a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) . |
| 12 | Becky yelled at the flustered marquis : |
| 13 | Meredith grinned at the outrageous exaggeration . |
| 14 | The LDDC decided at an early stage that this figure should rise to 30 per cent or so , as a result of a house-building programme that was originally set at 13,000 houses within ten to fifteen years . |
| 15 | Mrs. Hennessy looked at the open suitcase . |
| 16 | Elizabeth Hoby died at a great age in 1609 , after spending her final days painstakingly and efficiently planning her own funeral , down to the minutest detail . |
| 17 | Leicestershire lay at the very heart of open-field England . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , at that precise second , the makeshift platform gave way and Bobby disappeared at the very height of his rhetoric with the chairman , the union secretary , the workers ’ deputy and the four constables who by now had infiltrated the platform party . |
| 19 | It was Brainsby 's idea for Richard Branson to arrive at the inaugural press conference wearing a brown leather aviator 's helmet , à la Biggles , in an attempt to lend the launching of an international airline something of the savour of a Boys Own adventure . |
| 20 | Of course , I avoided so much work , going out to the bloody square on Tower Hill to gawk at the gore-drenched platform where the Great Ones of the land had their heads cut off . |
| 21 | Gaveston looked at the young page boy standing near him , a goblet of wine in his small white hands . |
| 22 | Grimma stared at the huge face . |
| 23 | Breathing heavily Emilia stared at the younger woman as though bereft of all hope that she might be understood . |
| 24 | Jahsaxa Penumbra hissed at the helpless form of her recaptured employee . |
| 25 | At eleven o'clock the big Volvo appeared at the far end of the hangar and drove slowly towards him , coming to a stop with its engine running forty feet away . |
| 26 | Despite the fact that representatives of both Korea and Taiwan appeared at the public hearing on the issue to argue their case , Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is expected to grant the request for certification . |
| 27 | Some time later I heard a chink of glass and looked up to find Dennis sitting at a nearby table with a half-empty bottle of chilled rosé . |
| 28 | As Angela Issajenko said at the Canadian Drug Abuse Enquiry in 1989 , people are never going to admit to taking drugs . |
| 29 | The contorted peaks of the Torres del Paine rise at the very site of collision of two of the world 's largest plates — the South American and the Antarctican Plates . |
| 30 | Mr Cavaco Silva tried put the brakes on his currency by cutting key interest rates by 1 p.c. to just under 18 p.c. and by selling escudos but the pound ended the day less than 1 p.c. away from its floor of 241.5 against the Portuguese currency , despite successful British efforts over the weekend to force Portugal to join at a higher rate than the Lisbon government had planned on Friday . |