Example sentences of "[vb past] at [art] [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A maid arrived at the 23-year-old model 's £500,000 Paris flat expecting to find her . |
| 2 | He held his breath and sniffed at the dead man 's lips . |
| 3 | She glanced at the other girl 's expression , trying to decipher her real meaning . |
| 4 | Carradine hacked at the other man 's stick and a length of wood flew away . |
| 5 | And I started at the General Hospital er in on May the first nineteen twenty nine . |
| 6 | Their mothers , lifting the heavy vessels onto their heads to carry them home , clicked at the young ones ' improvidence , as they splashed and squirted spray at one another by thumbing the tap 's mouth — mistakenly , or so they cried out when scolded . |
| 7 | She died at the Theosophical Society 's headquarters in Adyar in 1933 . |
| 8 | It was done in an instant : the coal shovel , like a boomerang , sped at the young fellow 's head , but unlike a boomerang , it did not return . |
| 9 | He picked up the wafer of liquid crystal which represented himself and stared at the High Priest 's face , his own , wishing that his own image could confide in him in the same way that the Harlequin had . |
| 10 | Artemis stared at the old woman 's whiskery face . |
| 11 | Dot slid down from the high bed and sat on the carpet and looked at a wooden dolls ' house , a painted rocking horse , but she did n't touch . |
| 12 | Julia looked at the present Earl 's neatly barbered head and immaculate dress shirt collar with interest . |
| 13 | Susan looked at the dark man 's picture . |
| 14 | Dot looked at the other children 's beds . |
| 15 | When Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan both spoke at the United Nations ' 4Oth Anniversary in 1985 they used the same autocue , which remained in a fixed position . |
| 16 | Suddenly I felt homesick , even before I left , and quietly raged at the royal bastard 's devious plans . |
| 17 | We both know about farming — we even met at a Young Farmers ' dance ! |
| 18 | I know , too , that my mother valued the people she met here , from the smiles of the young folk to the friends she made at the Senior Citizens ' Lunch Club and Meeting . |
| 19 | And the gun he held now , pointed at an unarmed man 's head — its menace was chillingly different from those few target practices . |