Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hooted and waved at the boats as they whizzed by . |
| 2 | Trent surfaced and yelled at the men in the cockpit to swim a lifejacket out to him . |
| 3 | Rincewind turned and stared at the flames racing towards them , and wondered how much of Ankh-Morpork could be bought for two hundred rhinu . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , we landed at Newcastle airport ’ — Charlie turned and looked at the men — ‘ at three o'clock ? ’ |
| 5 | The scullions sweated and ducked at the spits and bake-ovens built around the exercise ground for the clan to feast . |
| 6 | Her daughters were also charming with their big dark eyes and exuberantly glossy hair and breasts rising like pomegranates , and they giggled in amazed delight when Perdita swore and yelled at the grooms and even screamed at their father . |
| 7 | Everyone knew that to point at the seals was taboo . |
| 8 | Feeling the whole blueness shutting in on her , walls running with cyan drops whose stench was acrid and bile , she wrenched and wrenched at the straps and at last the curving bottle came free . |
| 9 | She blinked and nodded at the hospitallers . |
| 10 | None of the family spoke or looked at the others . |
| 11 | The spider-web lightning twitched and surged at the windows , as if hunting for some small crack in the glass through which it could get to them . |
| 12 | It was too late to save the rick , so for a few minutes he stood and stared at the flames . |
| 13 | He had completed another revolution of the prescribed path , and the man still stood and stared at the fences , and his shoulders were not hunched as if the cold no longer concerned him . |
| 14 | There were three or four cinemas round here — I stood and gazed at the pictures outside and thought , ‘ Space , cowboys and sex . |