Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC got together at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge'93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 2 | Meredith poked mistrustfully at the colourful heap on her plate with the fork . |
| 3 | Mr Stokill looked approvingly at the finished job . |
| 4 | So it was not until 30 August that Brusilov struck hard at the Austrian right , causing it to collapse and its formations to retreat westward in panic and confusion . |
| 5 | Zack drove always at the proper speed , his companions upright and silent in their seats . |
| 6 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |
| 7 | Rincewind stared muzzily at the recumbent tourist . |
| 8 | Tzann laughed nastily at the bitter witticism , inviting Kirov to join in , manoeuvring him into a betrayal of his countryman . |
| 9 | Captain Lionel Dunbar looked reproachfully at the young man seated opposite him . |
| 10 | Dong looked doubtfully at the inadequate grave . |
| 11 | ‘ Charity begins at home , ’ Ruth suggested wryly at the same time uncharitably thinking that Maria Luisa must have put Fernando under such a terrible strain over something that had nothing to do with him . |
| 12 | He had picked up the phone and was asking Celia to show their visitor up , James Morris glanced disdainfully at the new manager . |
| 13 | Seated on the nearside front seat of the luxury coach , John Ashenden glanced across at the diminutive septuagenarian from California . |
| 14 | Rory stiffened visibly at the implied insult . |
| 15 | Helen stared doggedly at a Swiss cheese plant . |
| 16 | Robert looked across at the High Street . |
| 17 | " Yes , of course , " Nicandra sniffed suspiciously at a vacant , scentless strength ; " Where did you find it ? " |
| 18 | Peggy glanced across at the six women seated nearby . |
| 19 | Delaney peered closer at the last one , the view spoilt by the fast upward flickering of the frame . |
| 20 | At 10.50 a.m. , Aldrich looked across at the two men who had entered quietly by the same door . |
| 21 | In the shed that evening Conradin looked sadly at the empty corner where his chicken had lived . |
| 22 | De Craon stared bleakly at the English clerk and shrugged to show his unease . |
| 23 | Sam looked again at the dark smudges of exhaustion under Clare 's eyes . |
| 24 | Jack Butler stared morosely at the large white television in his modern penthouse fiat in the centre of Leeds . |
| 25 | Jacklin choked again at the last . |
| 26 | As big Mary pulled heartily at the pleated rope of the bell , a loud murmur of voices and footsteps sounded along the road west . |
| 27 | Sara stared irritably at the enormous untidy lump of steak Lizzie brought out for her inspection . |
| 28 | Jack looked doubtfully at the waxen face of his stepfather . |
| 29 | Confounded by this reply , Oscar looked across at the other man to see that he was n't looking at the stars at all , but was still busying himself with the body . |
| 30 | Tell me lad , ’ ( Gabriel reeled backwards at the sudden loudness of Garvey 's voice ) ‘ tell us all . |