Example sentences of "[vb past] at [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loretta peered at the bare facts of Puddephat 's life . |
| 2 | He peered at the tangled convulsions in the Daemon card . |
| 3 | Whitlock shouted at the two policemen on the motorcycles to get the photographers back a few feet to give Mobuto a chance to get out of the limousine . |
| 4 | David photographed at the Grammy Awards of 1975 with John Lennon , Yoko Ono and Roberta Flack |
| 5 | Thus while labour productivity in terms of gross domestic product per head grew at 1.5 per cent per annum between 1945 and 1951 ( and by 2.5 per cent per annum between 1948 and 1951 ) it will be shown that these gains hardly nibbled at the chronic problems of overmanning in British industry ( Chapters 3 and 5 below ) . |
| 6 | He did n't say anything about ( well-documented ) insults Yeugh directed at the distinguished internationals for no apparent reason — like telling Eddie Gray ‘ if you were a racehorse you 'd have been shot years ago ’ in front of the team — or indeed any of the other eccentric behaviour of the man that got him fired . |
| 7 | It happened at the Olympic games at Munich in 1972 . |
| 8 | Petion saw her go from the corner of his eye , and fired at the crouching figures on the freighter 's deck with grim determination . |
| 9 | But in 1987 , countries including Germany and Britain cavilled at the combined costs of the three programmes — Ariane 5 , Columbus and Hermes . |
| 10 | While she phoned the switchboard and requested that they page the cardiographer , Michael Barrington the orthopaedic SR arrived and glanced at the shattered stubs of the young man 's femurs . |
| 11 | He glanced at the two men in the back . |
| 12 | She glanced at the brief details on the card Jill handed to her before smiling at the man . |
| 13 | I felt at the torn threads in my blouse and looked at the grazed skin underneath and shuddered , but I was all right and so was the tree . |
| 14 | Breathing deeply , fighting sudden fresh tears , she stared at the whitewashed walls of the tiny , tidy yard . |
| 15 | He stared at the two assistants in their smart white blouses and green aprons . |
| 16 | Melissa stared at the two slabs of raw meat that he took from the refrigerator and felt her appetite vanish . |
| 17 | Howarth stared at the two dummies as if he had never seen them before . |
| 18 | Benjamin nodded and stared at the dying flames of the fire . |
| 19 | She knelt down and stared at the smaller words below it . |
| 20 | Calatin sat back in his chair and stared at the three strangers in his house and said , ‘ Oh dear , you 're not going into the Far Future ? ’ |
| 21 | Afterwards , I sat on his lap while he drank some of that funny-smelling liquid and stared at the moving pictures in the corner . |
| 22 | Walter Carew raised his head and stared at the grey tendrils of smoke climbing up from the brown barren waste . |
| 23 | She laughed and laughed at The Merry Wives of Windsor . |
| 24 | She shuddered as the switchback roared overhead , but stood watching as a small train meandered through a series of paths , and laughed at the joyful screams of the children on the dodgems . |
| 25 | At the outset we looked at the traditional ways in which new developments have been incorporated into the domain of the public services . |
| 26 | Kiah and Rilla sat down on the expensive green and black chairs and looked at the expensive flowers on the tables . |
| 27 | However , if we looked at the total costs of using the vehicles one could argue that by using reducing balance the repair costs in later life would be compensated by the additional depreciation in earlier years so achieving a matching of costs and revenues over the assets ' life . |
| 28 | As they sat together on the grass , she looked at the tumbling waters of the beck and told him how Maria had slipped on the stepping-stones , down by the farm . |
| 29 | Furthermore , it might be argued from Case 131/86 United Kingdom v. Council , where the Court looked at the preparatory measures to the legislation in question in order to determine whether it was genuinely intended to be agricultural legislation , that the Court might investigate whether there had been a genuine consideration of the question of subsidiarity . |
| 30 | Fowler looked at the tiny fields of black soil and wondered how anyone could scratch a living from them . |