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 . |