Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped momentarily to look at the old ‘ cenotaph ’ or what remained of it . |
| 2 | Rachel froze on the bottom stair , heart stopping , and her head turned slowly to look at the pretty amah . |
| 3 | The goldfinches pecked neatly and precisely : The snow buntings burrowed energetically , discarding dead stalks and leaves with a quick flick of the head ; then dug deeper to get at the hidden seeds , their busy movements leaving visible impressions . |
| 4 | ‘ It goes on to explain how the geneticists and the neurochemists — neurotransmitters and all that — are in on the act = ’ His red eyes searched mine once more , then turned away to stare at the solitary lamp . |
| 5 | Anderjays Our Marcus won Best Exhibit at the 1988 Rottweiler Club at the Victoria Championship Show and went on to win runner-up in show at the 1988 Melbourne Royal Show . |
| 6 | At the time Rachel herself had still been doing her training but they had all worked at the same hospital — David as a senior house officer and Jennifer as a staff nurse on Orthopaedics . |
| 7 | She looked up , startled to find that they had already arrived at the top floor , and were now walking down the corridor towards her apartment . |
| 8 | Then more feet , the slam of a door , the surge of power as the Rover shot away to look at the next corner . |
| 9 | She had desperately scrambled at the shiny sides of the toilet-bowl as she slid into the water but to no avail . |
| 10 | It was happening in Liverpool , where giggly Karen had just started at the local secondary mod , and in London , where Dennis Parsons was fast learning that the prime number is number one , and where Liza was studying art at the Slade . |
| 11 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 12 | The style was constantly attracting new figures and had influenced , directly or indirectly , almost every significant young painter in Europe ; even Matisse , whose art had always seemed at the opposite pole to Cubism , was introducing a hitherto unknown severity into his painting in preparation for Cubistic experiments in 1915 . |
| 13 | There was no fire there , now , no sign of life , nor of the spirit that had once shrieked at the local folk who had emerged from the fortress demesne to loot and honour the dead : Four black-robed women and one man , robed in grey , a greybeard : he had understood the mythology of stone . |
| 14 | The only consolation was that Newcastle and Sheffield Wednesday , whom he had predicted would still be in the Cup along with Arsenal , had also fallen at the first hurdle to lesser teams . |
| 15 | They had nearly arrived at the first of the longhouses scattered over the hillside , belonging to the families who stayed in Orphir all the year round and cared for the land and the hall on behalf of the Earl . |
| 16 | The Collector had independently arrived at the same conclusion by watching the slope above the melon beds where the number of spectators was beginning to increase rapidly . |
| 17 | Picasso had never exhibited at the large Salons or taken part in any group manifestations , and after the Indépendants of 1909 , Braque joined him in this particular kind of artistic isolation . |
| 18 | George Cowley stood silently staring at the unconscious man . |
| 19 | He did n't ring the bell so we just stood there looking at the massive door . |