Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fair-haired Jews from Moscow and Leningrad mingled with olive-skinned Georgians to read the Cyrillic slogans welcoming them and then sank down in rows of plastic chairs or gazed at the panoramic photograph of Jerusalem covering an entire wall . |
| 2 | Although these are sometimes slavishly historical , or played at a frenetic tempo ( as if over-eager to cast off the stately past ) , the benefits of such experiments are clear . |
| 3 | I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard . |
| 4 | When I made no response he turned and gazed at the far line of coral reef that was marked by a fret of white breaking water . |
| 5 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 6 | Nevertheless they mounted and rode at a good trot up the great road towards the north . |
| 7 | The deepest area is a central depression some 2500km long and 1500km wide , surrounding the North Pole and oriented at a right angle to Greenland ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 8 | She ran her lithe tongue over the helmet of his quivering rod , and sucked at the trembling shaft like an angel from heaven . |
| 9 | Springing up , he took two steps across to it and peered at the glazed array of schoolboy faces . |
| 10 | He tore open the cupboard door and peered at the tiny porthole of glass on the front of the central heating boiler . |
| 11 | He frowned deeply and peered at the narrow line of black and white spaces hanging in the air in front of him . |
| 12 | They both knelt on the carpet and peered at the large magazine , turning the pages . |
| 13 | The Weasel stepped up to the horse and peered at the dishevelled figure . |
| 14 | Finally the iron pin would be attached to the hinge fitting , pointed at the catch-plate and coiled at the other end to form a spring hinge . |
| 15 | The Archon ignored him , stood up and shouted at the disappearing figure . |
| 16 | He took the wheel after that and drove at a furious speed back to San José , where he turned right on to the Pan-Am . |
| 17 | He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead . |
| 18 | Turning to football , the West Indies have done nothing on an international scale , though the game is popular and played at a domestic level . |
| 19 | Frankie narrowed his eyes and squinted at the bloody object lying between her powerful front paws . |
| 20 | In 1984 , radio astronomers from Columbia University identified electro-magnetic vortices in our Milky Way and arrived at a similar conclusion to the theories of Alfven and Perratt . |
| 21 | She was kept in training as a five-year-old with her main target the Ascot Gold Cup , and arrived at the Royal meeting unbeaten in her two earlier races that season : never much of a betting proposition once her ability became apparent , Pretty Polly started at 1000–35 on in the March Stakes at Newmarket and at 11–2 on in the Coronation Cup at Epsom ( despite the presence in the latter of the 1904 Derby winner St Amant ) . |
| 22 | The side corridor ran along the length of these three rooms , and opened at the other end of the car into a comfortable lounge , with settee , three armchairs , and tables . |
| 23 | He stepped forward and retreated at the little garden gate as though rebuffed by some force field or buffeted by some invisible gale which had no effect on the branches of the little trees and evergreens in the front gardens of the cottages . |
| 24 | ‘ He trusted no one , ’ she said with sudden muted violence , and paled at the bitter sound of her own voice . |
| 25 | We turned on a pre-arranged course and climbed at a predetermined rate of feed per minute at a certain airspeed . |
| 26 | As he headed for the sanctuary of the dressing-room , accompanied by armed soldiers , the home fans spat , threw coins and jeered at the tiny Scot . |
| 27 | He held his breath and sniffed at the dead man 's lips . |
| 28 | Less compromising are Brideshead-style ‘ bags ’ : cream-spotted navy , with an elasticated waist in Donna Karan 's DKNY collection ; navy silky viscose and cuffed at the 11-inch ankle in C'Est Comme Ca . |
| 29 | Primed with the good advice , but uncertain how far he could follow it , Greg went in through the hall of the cottage , artificially created by modern alterations , and knocked at the far door on the right . |
| 30 | Riven held his reins in one hand and jabbed at the snarling grypesh with the other as they darted into his reach . |