Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that it would at the very least be fun to fail again , however effortlessly , and we agreed to meet at a pub in Barnes on the following evening . |
| 2 | He chanced to resurface at a moment in the film when the divine Ms Rau is indulging in carnal acrobatics with the leading male actor . |
| 3 | At least he 'd made someone happy , he thought drily , regretting that he 'd snarled at the lad in front of him . |
| 4 | I 'd played at a club in Soho , even backed a few rock bands Lloyd had claimed to manage , and he 'd run a string of female mud wrestlers , mainly in the clip joint next door . |
| 5 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |
| 6 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 7 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 8 | The little man began to kick at the tentacle in fury . |
| 9 | Owen never ceased to marvel at the way in which he combined incredible ingenuity within the rules with total lack of curiosity as to what went on beyond them . |
| 10 | ‘ When he heard that you wanted to be near Marilla , he decided to teach at a school in another village . |
| 11 | He started gawking at the people in the stands when he came into the stretch . |
| 12 | together with the Bishop of Chester , applied on 12th October for his removal ; the Goldsmiths complied , paid £5 to a Mr. Nicholson who had taught at the School in the meanwhile , and made John Cobb the new Master on 8th January 1602 . |
| 13 | He had stared at the bottle in his hand , walked outside , smashed it against the outhouse wall , watched the liquor run down , dark against the brickwork , and returned to the house , almost reeled past Matey as though he had drunk all of it , and mounted the stairs to her room to remind himself of what he had lost , hurt though it might . |
| 14 | The car had stopped at the quarry in the pitch darkness , and , Mr O'Donnell said , he had been dragged out and beaten again by the men , including McPherson . |
| 15 | Alyssia had looked at the girl in amazement , beginning to feel disproportionately angry at this unexpected anticlimax . |
| 16 | ‘ We had looked at the agent in March and it seemed OK , ’ spokesman John Garner says . |
| 17 | Henry and Jimmy went off on a 48 hour pass with a couple of nurses they had met at a dance in Cambridge , so , feeling decidedly sour , Rosemary and I went into Cambridge on our own on Christmas Eve . |
| 18 | This entailed looking at the flag in the distance and then judging the yardage in between before deciding on the club . |
| 19 | His smile was so elfin I was reminded of a troll and a performance of Peer Gynt I had seen at the Maddermarket in Norwich . |
| 20 | ‘ Fuck you lot , ’ Blagg had snarled at the officer in charge , and set out to march to the end of the world . |
| 21 | The verderers had arrived at the stones in no very comfortable mood . |
| 22 | What could possibly give her a clue about what had happened at the flat in rue Roland ? |
| 23 | The front of her hair was flattened by a battery of pearl clips and left to rise at the back in styrofoam peaks . |
| 24 | Things had changed at the house in Chelsea . |
| 25 | Dad stood looking at the flat in disgust . |
| 26 | He stayed looking at the holes in the ceiling for a while . |
| 27 | Top service brass , diplomats and the intelligence community all tended to look at the world in more interventionist terms than a decade earlier . |
| 28 | He wanted to arrive at the Stasis in a calm frame of mind ; he wanted to settle himself and prepare for it . |