Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constable Laurie gave evidence that on 5th August he entered at the back door of 149 Chatham Street , that he received from her 1/9d. , and that she received from him a betting slip . |
| 2 | If I understood him correctly , this is an aspect of what David Parkin described at the 1973 Association of Social Anthropologists Conference as Personal Anthropology . |
| 3 | Black pretended not to overhear , but mused at the private world of women and the bond that had formed between the two . |
| 4 | The voice startled her but when she looked round she winced at the stale smell of alcohol on the man 's breath . |
| 5 | Mary winced at the incontinent ignition of thanks activated by the discovery of a modest twist of Joseph 's tobacco . |
| 6 | She winced at the faint trace of disgust in his voice , but managed to turn it into a careless shrug . |
| 7 | That I have much more of this world 's goods than Garry will ever have could n't help you to that decision , could it ? ’ he said , and her heart sank at the cynical twist to his mouth and his bitter tone . |
| 8 | He tore open the cupboard door and peered at the tiny porthole of glass on the front of the central heating boiler . |
| 9 | Springing up , he took two steps across to it and peered at the glazed array of schoolboy faces . |
| 10 | He frowned deeply and peered at the narrow line of black and white spaces hanging in the air in front of him . |
| 11 | She trembled at the razor-sharp sleet of misery : losing Lucy . |
| 12 | Lucenzo reached out and pushed back the tress of copper hair which had fallen over her forehead , and she trembled at the sensual drift of his fingers over her face . |
| 13 | The source of DNA was plasmid pFRC64 ( 14 ) , which contains a 198 bp long AccI-HindIII DNA fragment from phage φ29 genome , containing both P A2b and P A3 promoters , cloned at the SmaI site of pUC19Ο , so that transcription from P A2b promoter faces the unique EcoRI site from the pUC polylinker sequence . |
| 14 | Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool . |
| 15 | They stopped at the biggest hotel in the town , and went in to their rooms . |
| 16 | When the train stopped at the all-too-active battlefield in the frozen wastes of the Siberian-Manchurian border , her only hope was to walk back along the railway track to the previous station : |
| 17 | She ran her lithe tongue over the helmet of his quivering rod , and sucked at the trembling shaft like an angel from heaven . |
| 18 | He smiled without humour when Frankie sucked at the soap-filled cloth in order to sluice the taste of rancid beck-water from his mouth . |
| 19 | I sucked at the little trickle of blood from my finger . |
| 20 | He trained at the Central School of Art and Design , but never graduated , joining instead a group of frustrated designers , which included such budding innovationists as Mary Quant and Laura Ashley , who , like Conran himself , were eventually to become household names . |
| 21 | Parallel procedural changes occurred at the same time in the Senate , but other factors were at work there too . |
| 22 | One further return to Carolingian precedent occurred at the very end of Louis VII 's reign , when coinage from the king 's mints and bearing his image began to circulate outside the royal demesne for the first time since the late ninth century . |
| 23 | Wills presided at the inaugural meeting of the Bristol Union Society for the Promotion of Sunday Schools , and his son , W.D . |
| 24 | ’ Bernice shouted at the giggling body beneath her . |
| 25 | Left alone , the Doctor dabbed at the wet patch on his cheek with a corner of his handkerchief . |
| 26 | Earlier , Tanjug 's correspondent reported from Bucharest that armoured vehicles ran over students , while police turned automatic gunfire on crowds chanting ‘ Down with Ceausescu ’ and ‘ Down with the killers ’ during demonstrations that erupted at the government-organised rally in support of President Ceausescu . |
| 27 | He comes from Dusseldorf , where he studied at the famous Academy with Gerhard Richter , and shows large landscape paintings in which the natural is disturbed by human interventions , all seen from a rather high vantage point . |
| 28 | She studied at the Royal Academy in London and the Juilliard School in New York . |
| 29 | Tess Miller studied at the Royal College of Music and has performed and recorded in this country and abroad with most of the London chamber orchestras , both as soloist and orchestral player . |
| 30 | Neil Sissons studied at the Royal College of Music , before becoming organ scholar of Worcester College , Oxford . |