Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb past] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ducks gazed thoughtfully at the sky and flapped their wings , but not so much as a peep was uttered by any of them . |
| 2 | Fierce repression failed to eliminate the growing strength of the Social Democrats , and in 1887 , after decades of faction fighting , the groups came together at the Hainfeld Congress to form a single multinational party under the foremost Social Democrat , Victor Adler . |
| 3 | I like that Harrow School Song the kids sang yesterday at the breaking-up stunt , do n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years . |
| 5 | A lack of narrative drive leaves the reader with piecemeal vignettes , an impression confirmed by the poems tacked on at the end of the book . |
| 6 | She remembered one of the ideas chucked around at the brainstorming session a week ago : a series on Eligible Males . |
| 7 | The doves flew in at the mouths and made their nests inside . |
| 8 | If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem . |
| 9 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 10 | She had talked of a sex scene when she was on Wogan , but he assumed it would be something more romantic — a magnolia bud of a tit peeping from beneath bed linen as she held out her arms to her lover and the lights went down at the end of the play . |
| 11 | This brings us to the third , and for our purposes the most significant , of the problems laid out at the start of this section . |
| 12 | At midnight the solitary guard leaning in the shadows looked up at the conjoining planets and wondered idly what change in his fortunes they might herald . |
| 13 | There was an immediate murmur of approval , though some of the ladies looked longingly at the lavishly laid tea table just visible in the dining alcove . |
| 14 | Then one day , the TDs stayed late at the Dáil — in England you would say ‘ MPs stayed late at Parliament ’ — and sneaked in a bill about angling licences on the Lough . |
| 15 | But you can see the police parked up at the trouble spots . |
| 16 | The horses nosed patiently at the ground as they waited . |
| 17 | The Gnomes sat together at the end of the breakfast table and waited anxiously for the verdict . |
| 18 | In an uncomfortable silence Nathaniel Sherman and the others gazed down at the dead buffalo cow . |
| 19 | I had one end , the seamers swapped around at the other . |
| 20 | The singer later needed his prop when the rains came down at the band 's sell-out ‘ Finstock ’ gig . |