Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young people were afraid , wondering if they would have time to have their children , and became agitated at the racheting-up of international tensions in East and West . |
| 2 | When The Elder Statesman received less than adulatory notices , and failed to succeed at the box office , he was noticeably calm in his reaction . |
| 3 | The detour was to Holmstroyd and involved stopping at the jetty . |
| 4 | She paused in front of Barnes and Noble and pretended to look at the book display in the window . |
| 5 | Penry Vaughan ducked his tall head through the doorway and moved to stand at the foot of the bed in the shadows beyond the arc of light from the small lamp . |
| 6 | He bent to the carabineer at his waist , and tried to chew at the knot , to make it more supple . |
| 7 | The goat stopped abruptly and tried to chew at the hem of Mrs Hollidaye 's brown jacket . |
| 8 | When they immediately reacted with their automatic alarm response of rolling up into a tight ball , the entire family promptly rolled down the slope of the hill and came to rest at the man 's feet , where he picked them up and popped them into his collecting bag . |
| 9 | Fran closed her eyes , willing the frantic pounding of her pulse to slow , but when his fingers completed their slow journey and came to rest at the base of her neck she knew that he could feel every frantic beat . |
| 10 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 11 | When he married he rented a rambling red-brick Georgian house two miles away and bicycled to work at the forge most days . |
| 12 | Luke dropped his grip on her and turned to glance at the door , as if he intended to go and put his question to the man himself . |
| 13 | He was nearing the top of the hill and turned to look at the view as an excuse for a breather . |
| 14 | ‘ Good girl , ’ Lacuna said absently , and returned to sit at the bank of screens . |
| 15 | He dropped my wrists and began picking at the bread , rolling bits of it into little grey balls . |
| 16 | But the second time round he became restless and began biting at the rope and making playful snaps at Angela 's heels , then at her basket . |
| 17 | At once he ran to the house and began scratching at the door . |
| 18 | When the power rear doors opened , the men moved out to the left and right of their vehicles , into their battle positions , and began to shoot at the enemy . |
| 19 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 20 | One after another I picked up other stones and began to marvel at the diversity and beauty of them , that I had never noticed before . |
| 21 | After 1945 , the committee was allowed to divide itself into subcommittees , it gave up scrutinizing the estimates in detail and began to look at the way money was being spent in selected fields and how far government policy was being achieved . |
| 22 | The first Russian to mount the wall fell at once to a bullet from one of Thiercelin 's men , but now a slavonic deluge swamped the wall in a wave of green and grey , bayonets fixed , overran the Frenchmen on the terrace and began smashing at the door . |
| 23 | Without a word , Ted climbed out of the car and began pulling at the hedgerow . |
| 24 | ‘ Come on , ’ said Jimmy , and began to tug at the cabinet again . |
| 25 | He crossed to the edge of the grass and craned to look at the top of the building . |
| 26 | The cuttings to take now are semi-hardwood or semi-ripe cuttings : young shoots that have grown this year and started to harden at the base . |
| 27 | One day just below their balcony a man had got out of his car and gone to the car in front and opened that car 's door and started shouting at the man inside , and then the car behind had started hooting and others had joined in . |
| 28 | Luke pushed back his chair impatiently and went to stand at the window , looking down , his back towards her . |
| 29 | Instead she got up and went to look at the Labrador . |
| 30 | The whole train stopped while he jumped down from the dome car and went to look at the laggard . |