Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karelius peered out at the theatre lamps glowing through the mist . |
| 2 | But you can see the police parked up at the trouble spots . |
| 3 | BNFL chiefs got an injunction against U2 threatening them with arrest if they turned up at the plant gates . |
| 4 | He was wearing a duffel coat , done up on the wrong toggles , with copies of evening papers turned back at the job columns sticking out of both pockets . |
| 5 | Doyle moved further up the road , and glanced up at the bedroom windows . |
| 6 | She slowed down at the traffic lights by Sloane Street . |
| 7 | I 'd just finished filling the hip flask when it went dark in the bar as a truck pulled up at the traffic lights outside . |
| 8 | DEFENDING Tory Michael Fallon hit back at the poll results last night saying there was ‘ no way at all that Labour are 12 points ahead in Darlington ’ . |
| 9 | But , as she gazed around at the chintz sofas , and the French-provincial-style velvet-upholstered dining-room chairs — which she could see through a far open doorway — it occurred to Laura that maybe it was the only way to preserve such sumptuous furnishings on a shoreline likely to be damp and salty in the latter part of the year , while , outside the large windows , she could see automatic sprinklers drenching the fine green lawns that ran down to the beach . |
| 10 | Sometimes men in mackintoshes stared in at the bookshop windows as if building up to a flash . |
| 11 | He looked down at the jogger casuals she wore , then nodded approval . |
| 12 | Pulling herself away , she looked over at the filing cabinets against one wall . |
| 13 | Léonie sprawled lower on the muddy carpet and looked up at the beech trees spread against the sky . |
| 14 | I looked back at the school buildings . |
| 15 | We looked back at the tournament leaders on the seventeenth . |
| 16 | Flora looked round at the village children swirling , screaming , across the green , like gulls round the ships of their mothers . |
| 17 | A SPECIAL constable was shot dead at point-blank range and his colleague gunned down at a routine police check , an Old Bailey court heard yesterday . |
| 18 | Du n no , but it says , it said about at the Rice Krispies . |