Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Loretta peered at the bare facts of Puddephat 's life . |
| 32 | Sanjurjo perished at the very outset when the plane taking him back to Spain from his Portuguese exile crashed on take-off . |
| 33 | Elisabeth stopped at the old peat barge , the single landmark on an otherwise featureless wilderness . |
| 34 | HE was the butt of jokes as England flopped at the European Championship . |
| 35 | Ross frowned at the strong note of venom in her voice . |
| 36 | Maggie glanced at the well-meaning woman . |
| 37 | Colonel Moore had left his card and the next morning , at a careful eleven o'clock , Colonel Hope called at the rented villa on the lakeside . |
| 38 | Sister Rosario looked at the pinched face of Maura Ryan and her heart went out to the child . |
| 39 | Reynolds looked at the first page of the notes . |
| 40 | Léonie stared at the two shops and came to a decision . |
| 41 | Thérèse and Léonie stared at the steep wall of rock , at the grass and weeds at its foot . |
| 42 | They sat for hours drinking tea in Mrs. Mounce 's flat downstairs , while Mrs. Mounce talked about her affairs with moustached men in export-import , and Tessa looked at the little bit here and the little bit there which Mrs. Mounce had done herself to brighten her own place up . |
| 43 | Rincewind looked at the tiny square of glass in astonishment . |
| 44 | Salt was making a meal of Jess 's shortcomings and Nancy stared at the new kitchen wench while her mother nodded in her easy-going way as she took off her shawl and recaptured her dropping hairpins . |
| 45 | Karen looked at the old man and for a moment she saw something cold and frightening in his smiling eyes . |
| 46 | Artemis stared at the old woman 's whiskery face . |
| 47 | Anabelle stared at the terrible mess . |
| 48 | Anabelle stared at the hysterical creatures . |
| 49 | ENGLAND tripped at the final hurdle of the world team championship in Lucerne last night , writes Leonard Barden , and finished as bronze medal winners behind the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia . |
| 50 | Britain benefited from such a programme when they finished third at the Los Angeles Olympics and England did at the 1986 World Cup . |
| 51 | Scathach tugged at the crude bridles of the three horses and the beasts , terrified by the transition from tranquillity to rage and protesting loudly , stepped through . |
| 52 | Jane grimaced at the implied delay , then stood with her slender arms raised high to allow her maid to drop the gauzy dress over her head . |
| 53 | Sharpe pointed at the smaller road on which he and Doggett travelled . |
| 54 | Kirov arrived at the agreed meeting place as he always did , at the exact specified time . |
| 55 | Rory sucked at the tiny wound and spat , trying to remove any dirt . |
| 56 | He did n't say anything about ( well-documented ) insults Yeugh directed at the distinguished internationals for no apparent reason — like telling Eddie Gray ‘ if you were a racehorse you 'd have been shot years ago ’ in front of the team — or indeed any of the other eccentric behaviour of the man that got him fired . |
| 57 | Rangers , without a win in their last eight league games , clinched a deserved victory when Mark Bradshaw scored at the far post . |
| 58 | Syl and Robert arrived at the same time and my mother poured them drinks . |
| 59 | Tom knocked at the front door but there was no reply . |
| 60 | Pumfrey marvelled at the limitless naivete of some schoolteachers . |