Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Kendra Sone looks at the early findings
2 Doyle peered at the crumpled figure .
3 Margaret Heraty looks at the key recommendations
4 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 .
5 Nellie asked at the front door .
6 Corbett gazed at the distant line of trees .
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 David photographed at the Grammy Awards of 1975 with John Lennon , Yoko Ono and Roberta Flack
12 Donna glanced at the other visitors , noticing how diverse an audience were drawn to such a building .
13 Becky yelled at the flustered marquis :
14 Meredith grinned at the outrageous exaggeration .
15 Whether it was Millie 's infuriated strength that caused the woman 's grasp on the scissors to slacken , or that she changed her tactics and meant to direct the scissors towards the child 's face , could n't be known , but Millie grabbed at the open blades and , managing to twist them round , consciously or by accident drove one of the blades into the nun 's arm .
16 Mrs. Hennessy looked at the open suitcase .
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 Jahsaxa Penumbra hissed at the helpless form of her recaptured employee .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 As Angela Issajenko said at the Canadian Drug Abuse Enquiry in 1989 , people are never going to admit to taking drugs .
27 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 .
28 In the kitchen Mrs Blakey comforted her and Mr Blakey sat at the scrubbed table stirring sugar into a cup of tea .
29 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 .
30 Corbett gagged at the bitter-sweet smell of corruption and covered his mouth and nose with his cloak to prevent himself choking .
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