Example sentences of "[vb past] at [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ONE TIME RESIDENT in the Southend Historic Aircraft Museum , Fiet G.46–IV MM53211/BAPC 79 has , after many years for storage and neglect , surfaced at Duxford in the capable hands of the Aircraft Restoration Company ( ARCO ) , builders of Blenheims and other interesting aircraft .
2 A pretty little boy not above six boggled at Gabriel from the front row and cried out , ‘ Ma !
3 I arrived at Annat in the early afternoon and was disappointed not to find any offers of refreshment on display .
4 Another confusion is possibly with a Thomas Anglicus , whose Liber propugnatorius ( c .1311 ) contains an attack upon Duns Scotus [ q.v. ] , the Franciscan master , who taught at Oxford during the 1290s .
5 The executive jet took off from Cork airport and landed at Dublin in the late afternoon .
6 King Olaf of Norway landed at Leith from the Royal Norwegian Yacht ‘ Norge ’ on 17th October at the beginning of his state visit to Scotland .
7 ‘ Karol Sikora , my head of department , worked at Stanford on the very project you 're describing .
8 Barney Moss stared at Doyle through the intervening glass-topped door , and Doyle felt the hostility like tiny knives .
9 Gorelli 's face stared at Jed through the bloodstained plastic .
10 He looked at McAllister for the first time since she had begun to help him , and saw her strained white face , the eyes enormous in it .
11 The rat looked at Moore with the same merciless stare as the Judge in the picture .
12 Caldy won at Mawdsley off the penultimate ball to reach the regional final in the Village Cup .
13 In 1872 he introduced at Victoria on the Metropolitan District Railway an automatic train-protection system whereby a red lens positioned in front of a white signal light was raised above it on actuation from an electrical contact only when the section ahead was clear .
14 ‘ Radio , cyphers , handling explosives , the sort of thing we got at Wanborough in the old days . ’
15 Tracey 's picture byline glared at Loretta from the front page ; had he really intended to look so fierce , she wondered , or was it an attempt to hide his embarrassment ?
16 Izzie glowered at Garvey through the thickening darkness .
17 His glasses glittered at Marcus from the top bunk .
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