Example sentences of "[noun prp] [v-ing] [adv prt] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a Labour conference you get Gerry Adams turning up at a fringe meeting , and he the leader of Sinn Fein , which is cousin to the IRA , which in 1984 , in this same town , blew up the Grand Hotel in an attempt to murder the Prime Minister and Cabinet . |
| 2 | As Sabrina stood outside the hotel on the Place de la Gare staring up at the Cathedral 's spire silhouetted against the dark , sombre skyline , she let her thoughts drift back over the hours since their departure from New York 's John F. Kennedy Airport . |
| 3 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 4 | Fortinbras coming in at the end , when Hamlet 's dead and everyone 's dead . |
| 5 | Hari stood in Goat Street staring up at the facade of the old theatre and swallowed hard , trying to pluck up enough courage to walk into the ornate portico . |
| 6 | Which opera was Puccini working on at the time of his death ? |
| 7 | Mr Bates hopes to finalise a deal that will reduce his payment from the asking price of £22.85 million to £13 million — and mean Fulham moving in at the end of this season . |
| 8 | Think of the prospect of John Major lining up at the London Marathon , or Neil Kinnnock limbering up before taking to the squash courts . |
| 9 | Malone continued to dominate with Colin Morrison cleaning up at the line out and Colin Wilkinson orchestrating things in the back line . |
| 10 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |