Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| 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 | Apart from generalities relating to balanced inclined planes , one patent sought to protect details of the lift as a whole ; the second sought to protect the device of gradually reducing the gradient of the upper end of the incline to balance the apparent loss in weight of the descending tank as it became immersed at the lower level . |
| 3 | On Monday morning , she reported to work at the Swift building on Des Voeux Road . |
| 4 | I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Investigations are continuing to discover how the two cars came to collide at the Great Stainton crossroads on the narrow road . |
| 7 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 8 | the situa , perhaps it 's worth outlining how Litchfield came to look at the new settlement option , because it has some relevance to York |
| 9 | He noted given unto a Newlands man who came to look at the supposed Wad Mine at Conistone 5s . " |
| 10 | On the other hand , the ordinary and the extraordinary seemed to coincide at the same point . |
| 11 | The lift came to rest at the first floor and the door slid open . |
| 12 | We 'd started at the same time . |
| 13 | And somehow all her own reservations and objections seemed to evaporate at the same time . |
| 14 | She seemed to shudder at the very thought . |
| 15 | Sir Wilfred Grenfell of Labrador came to speak at the White Rock Pavilion , Hastings , at his request . |
| 16 | Lifting his head , he turned to grin at the little girl . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Laura turned to look at the other woman in astonishment . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She turned to look at the rear clock . |
| 21 | I turned to look at the young man beside me , his long fingered hands resting on the steering wheel . |
| 22 | " 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 . |
| 23 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They arranged to meet at the Blue Boar on the following Wednesday night , then Billy jumped on his bike to ride home . |
| 26 | He began to aim at the other man , who was reloading his Luger , but was stopped by the Doctor 's hand on his shoulder . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | His fingers began to scrabble at the coarse edge of the steel plate . |
| 29 | The porter fell to his knees and began to scrabble at the soft soil next to the wooden scaffold pole . |
| 30 | Idly she began to stab at the wet ground with it , but it struck something hard straight away . |