Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whitlock shouted at the two policemen on the motorcycles to get the photographers back a few feet to give Mobuto a chance to get out of the limousine . |
| 2 | Doyle peered at the crumpled figure . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nellie asked at the front door . |
| 5 | Corbett gazed at the distant line of trees . |
| 6 | Markby swished at a trailing bramble with a piece of stick . |
| 7 | ’ Bernice shouted at the giggling body beneath her . |
| 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 | David photographed at the Grammy Awards of 1975 with John Lennon , Yoko Ono and Roberta Flack |
| 10 | Gorbachev declared at a joint press conference on July 16 that " the united Germany , sovereign in every way , will say to which bloc it wants to belong " , thus effectively conceding that Germany could be a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) . |
| 11 | Donna glanced at the other visitors , noticing how diverse an audience were drawn to such a building . |
| 12 | Inside the car , Donna glanced at the two envelopes then slipped them into her handbag . |
| 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 | The LDDC decided at an early stage that this figure should rise to 30 per cent or so , as a result of a house-building programme that was originally set at 13,000 houses within ten to fifteen years . |
| 17 | Madge looked at the four children clustered in the hallway . |
| 18 | Mrs. Hennessy looked at the open suitcase . |
| 19 | Elizabeth Hoby died at a great age in 1609 , after spending her final days painstakingly and efficiently planning her own funeral , down to the minutest detail . |
| 20 | Leicestershire lay at the very heart of open-field England . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Gaveston looked at the young page boy standing near him , a goblet of wine in his small white hands . |
| 23 | Grimma stared at the huge face . |
| 24 | Breathing heavily Emilia stared at the younger woman as though bereft of all hope that she might be understood . |
| 25 | Jahsaxa Penumbra hissed at the helpless form of her recaptured employee . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | As Angela Issajenko said at the Canadian Drug Abuse Enquiry in 1989 , people are never going to admit to taking drugs . |
| 29 | These devices hit the headlines a few years back when two cars in the United States collided at a closing speed of some 70 miles per hour . |
| 30 | Gleeson picked at a bloodied hangnail . |