Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As Bull watched , an elderly man with his glasses hanging from one ear bent backwards at a strange angle , as if he was made of rubber , and slid off his seat . |
| 32 | His eyes narrowed dangerously at the undisguised sarcasm in her voice |
| 33 | PENSIONERS protesting outside Manchester 's town hall where about 3,000 rallied yesterday at a Grey Power conference . |
| 34 | PENSIONERS protesting outside Manchester 's town hall where about 3,000 rallied yesterday at a Grey Power conference . |
| 35 | Caroline and the rest of the group , who were raising funds for the BBC 's annual children in Need appeal , stopped off at a Turkish restaurant during their tour of four restaurants in Aberdeen . |
| 36 | We stopped off at a few cafes on the way so that we could stretch our legs . |
| 37 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 38 | Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night . |
| 39 | Miguel must have rung the policía , because their car drew up at the same time as Miguel 's jeep . |
| 40 | Sit on a stool and massage one foot at a time by placing it on your thigh , knee bent up at a right angle . |
| 41 | The cop peered up at the towering fire escape for several seconds , then , satisfied it was deserted , he walked across the alley to the opposite wall . |
| 42 | Over to the west , the allied fires petered out at the same point ; yet Thiercelin fancied he could hear the rumble of distant movement . |
| 43 | At the top a glass cocktail bar slowly revolved , and drinkers exclaimed gaily at the changing spectacle of industrial buildings under construction . |
| 44 | Chuck hesitated and peered out at the teeming streets of Cholon , which they were entering . |
| 45 | Individuals doing their own thing does not work , as Jacques Chirac found out at a 1988 Paris rally . |
| 46 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
| 47 | Karl , his head turned steadily to his right , peered intently at the run-down flats and battered buildings and factories lining small side-streets , each and every one of which ended in that apparently insignificant , almost unobtrusive wall of grey concrete blocks . |
| 48 | She peered around at the various exhibits , squinting into the sun . |
| 49 | Alesi , seeing Berger 's car late , moved across at the Ascari bend and collided with his team-mate . |
| 50 | Alesi , seeing Berger 's car too late , moved across at the Ascari bend and collided . |
| 51 | She dabbed ineffectually at the fine material . |
| 52 | The most surprising observation is that the spring bloom occurred almost at the same time in the Tromsø area and at Spitzbergen , approximately 10° further north . |
| 53 | The latter 's delight and enthusiasm were such that he insisted that Nicholas should be sent to study at Oxford University and maintained there at the royal charge ; but a month later the youth died , on his twentieth birthday . |
| 54 | She peered anxiously at the reddening bruise on Perkin 's cheek , a twin to one on mine . |
| 55 | Alexei peered ahead at the swirling vapour which shrouded the place where the bridge met the face of another building . |
| 56 | Adomnan recalls in his biography of Columba , written a century after the saint 's death , that one day the monks became aware of a strange presence in one of their pastures ; this experience occurred again at the same time every evening . |
| 57 | She peered closely at the surrounding mass of faces , comprising ten of the cleaner or nicer-looking boys from the boarding section , who were whispering and fooling among themselves and taking little notice of her . |
| 58 | The horse had gradually slowed as it tired , until the animal now moved forward at a resigned walk . |
| 59 | Muldoon winced visibly at the younger man 's cruel analogy . |
| 60 | The incidence of bridal pregnancy and bastardy rose significantly at the same time . |