Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the 20th of March Katherine and Beatrice dined together at the Closerie des Lilas . |
| 2 | It drew the hungry child from his bed to the landing , where he glanced nervously at the Bogeyman 's room before creeping on tip-toe along the strip of faded carpet . |
| 3 | He glanced quickly at the hospitaller 's angry face . |
| 4 | He glanced irritably at the man 's corpse , still on the slab . |
| 5 | ‘ My lady , ’ he said , ‘ before Sir Brian or Sir Fulke , ’ he glanced contemptuously at the girl 's uncle who still sat slumped in his chair , ‘ challenge me to a duel , I apologise profusely . ’ |
| 6 | Few people , I discovered , looked directly at a waiter 's eyes , even when they were talking to him . |
| 7 | George Birkitt got through with only one prompt , but his performance was spoiled by the smug smile he wore throughout at the star 's expense . |
| 8 | Huy looked carefully at the girl 's back , and found what he was seeking . |
| 9 | The man listened intently at the Pearman 's door for some seconds before he too heard the low and feeble moan from the kitchen . |
| 10 | Think of how surprised the well-heeled audience beyond the velvet curtain would be if it could see what was going on back here , the last-minute mayhem that came of packing a dozen models and heaven only knew how many assistants , hairdressers , make-up people , and general , all-purpose ‘ gofers ’ into the cramped space that lay backstage at the Sala dell'Arte . |
| 11 | The wives of the village , who almost always wore black under their ubiquitous pinnies , looked askance at the doctor 's wife and her parade of bonny colours . |
| 12 | She looked again at the hopper 's clock . |
| 13 | By this good turn the bishop won the hearts of all , and the people began to listen more readily to his teaching , hoping to obtain heavenly blessings through the ministry of one to whom they already owed these material benefits ; Eddius Stephanus then pointed out that those ungrateful enough not to convert willingly did so at the king 's command . |
| 14 | Sheldukher smiled approvingly at the Doctor 's witticisms . |
| 15 | Heading the attack by the restyled and mechanically tweaked Polos is the supercharged G40 packing a 113bhp punch aimed squarely at the Peugeot 205GTi 's jaw . |
| 16 | It blossomed forth at a Managers ' meeting when ‘ somebody from Marketing ’ gave an in-depth talk on selling skills and creating opportunities to sell , using Branch data . |
| 17 | The defender blocks by turning his body sideways so that the blow misses the target , and then counter-attacks with a palm-hand strike aimed upwards at the opponent 's chin ; this in its turn may be countered by a downwards slapping motion with a flat-palm strike to the attacker 's hand and finished off with a backfist strike to the nose , using the same hand that was used to block . |
| 18 | Firemen appeared twice at the city 's university , but both cases were false alarms . |
| 19 | As the creature moved within five metres of her , she held on to the chair with both hands and ran straight at the creature 's unprotected stomach area . |
| 20 | The train braked hard at the fireman 's shout , ‘ There 's a man on the line . ’ |