Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] at the [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 | Nellie asked at the front door . |
| 4 | Corbett gazed at the distant line of trees . |
| 5 | Lido di Camaiore lies at the northern end of Viareggio , next to Marina di Pietrasanta , in the most fashionable part of the Tuscan coast . |
| 6 | ’ Bernice shouted at the giggling body beneath her . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Becky yelled at the flustered marquis : |
| 10 | Meredith grinned at the outrageous exaggeration . |
| 11 | Mrs. Hennessy looked at the open suitcase . |
| 12 | Leicestershire lay at the very heart of open-field England . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Gaveston looked at the young page boy standing near him , a goblet of wine in his small white hands . |
| 17 | Grimma stared at the huge face . |
| 18 | Jahsaxa Penumbra hissed at the helpless form of her recaptured employee . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As Angela Issajenko said at the Canadian Drug Abuse Enquiry in 1989 , people are never going to admit to taking drugs . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In the kitchen Mrs Blakey comforted her and Mr Blakey sat at the scrubbed table stirring sugar into a cup of tea . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Corbett gagged at the bitter-sweet smell of corruption and covered his mouth and nose with his cloak to prevent himself choking . |
| 26 | Maggie gazed at the twenty-foot-long boat that was her father 's main source of livelihood . |
| 27 | Sanjurjo perished at the very outset when the plane taking him back to Spain from his Portuguese exile crashed on take-off . |
| 28 | Elisabeth stopped at the old peat barge , the single landmark on an otherwise featureless wilderness . |
| 29 | HE was the butt of jokes as England flopped at the European Championship . |
| 30 | DAVID HEWSON and GEOFFREY BOOT visited the Socata GA division at Tarbes to look at the French attitude towards making light aircraft . |