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Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Having attended the first General Commissioners ' hearing on 10 April 1991 , the debtor and his accountant failed to appear at the adjourned hearing on 19 June 1991 .
2	On Monday morning , she reported to work at the Swift building on Des Voeux Road .
3	I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter .
4	His suicide , in protest at the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the forces of the Warsaw Pact — only Romania declined to participate - seemed to catch at the Western conscience as somehow symbolic of those dreadful days , though it produced no result other than a further deepening of the Cold War .
5	Investigations are continuing to discover how the two cars came to collide at the Great Stainton crossroads on the narrow road .
6	the situa , perhaps it 's worth outlining how Litchfield came to look at the new settlement option , because it has some relevance to York
7	He noted given unto a Newlands man who came to look at the supposed Wad Mine at Conistone 5s . "
8	She seemed to shudder at the very thought .
9	Sir Wilfred Grenfell of Labrador came to speak at the White Rock Pavilion , Hastings , at his request .
10	Lifting his head , he turned to grin at the little girl .
11	In the wives ' hostel Jocelyn finished unpacking and turned to look at the other occupant of the room a pleasant woman of thirty five who had introduced herself as Jane Smith .
12	Laura turned to look at the other woman in astonishment .
13	It was seventeen years after President Kennedy 's assassination , twelve years since Bobby 's , but the idea was so powerful nobody turned to look at the shattered window or the stunned lad .
14	She turned to look at the rear clock .
15	I turned to look at the young man beside me , his long fingered hands resting on the steering wheel .
16	" Ah , excuse me , They both turned to look at the winding-stair door , where the small attendant was peeking round the side , most of its body hidden in the twisted darkness beyond .
17	It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment .
18	On International Women 's Day , over a hundred women arrived to protest at the male domination of the event : they wore white featureless masks inside the hall — to symbolize women 's invisibility-and , in men 's suits , held a mock inquiry outside .
19	They arranged to meet at the Blue Boar on the following Wednesday night , then Billy jumped on his bike to ride home .
20	He began to aim at the other man , who was reloading his Luger , but was stopped by the Doctor 's hand on his shoulder .
21	Where or with whom James received his training is not known , but by 1783 he was established in London ; and in that year he announced himself by publishing a pamphlet on A Method of Constructing Vapour Baths , and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy .
22	His fingers began to scrabble at the coarse edge of the steel plate .
23	The porter fell to his knees and began to scrabble at the soft soil next to the wooden scaffold pole .
24	Idly she began to stab at the wet ground with it , but it struck something hard straight away .
25	He lost by 2,412 votes but returned to win at the General Election three months later with a majority of over 3,000 .
26	Clumsily he began to tug at the heavy gold signet ring on one of his fingers .
27	It began to ring at the other end .
28	News of the victory spread as the clans began to muster at the appointed time at Glenfinnan , which , with the mountains rising all around the tranquil waters of the loch , provided an intensely dramatic setting for the formal beginning of the campaign .
29	My brain began to overheat at the sheer scale of the disaster that had just overtaken me .
30	And young Paul Daly , the son of Brian , had a rather one-sided 21-10 win over Martin McHugh of Carrickfergus in the under-25 singles semi-final after McHugh selected to drive at the wrong time , which was right up Daly 's street .