Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tall man waited at the stable entrance of the lodging house where Lucille Castineau had rented two attic rooms . |
| 2 | A room which served Coleridge in a different way stood at the back of the house on the first floor : this was Tom Poole 's vaulted bookroom , created by him early in 1795 and filled with a wide-ranging library which helped to reconcile Coleridge to the loss of his frequent visits to the City Library in Bristol . |
| 3 | A ghostly figure hovered at the end of the tunnel . |
| 4 | In his comfortable living room a Transylvanian poet scoffed at the idea of protest : ‘ On a barricade you burn like a flame in seconds . |
| 5 | A stray mongrel appeared at the end of the alley , its body gaunt from years of neglect . |
| 6 | A white sink shone at the far end , some sort of covered porcelain bucket underneath it . |
| 7 | A little ward-maid appeared at the bedside with an enormous vacuum flask of Georgian tea , refusing to leave until I had downed every drop . |
| 8 | After a few minutes a little flame blossomed at the far corner . |
| 9 | A major turning-point came at the start of 1985 when Peter Walker announced that there would be no power cuts at all in the coming year , however long the strike lasted . |
| 10 | The gentlemen of this hereditary ( non-peerage ) rank , of the creations of England , Ireland , Great Britain and the United Kingdom , are permitted a canton ( or an escutcheon ) showing the ‘ bloody hand of Ulster ’ — argent a sinister hand couped at the wrist gules . |
| 11 | Signs of willingness to finalize a no-attack treaty came at the conclusion of a third round of high-level talks on Dec. 18-20 in Islamabad , Pakistan , between the Indian foreign secretary Muchkund Dubey and his Pakistani counterpart , Shahryar Khan . |
| 12 | Even so , I found that a curious structure remained at the service 's centre . |
| 13 | A sneering face gazed at the caged men . |
| 14 | A large man and a small boy appeared at the other end of the platform : she hobbled on her heels , humping her heavy suitcase , towards them . |
| 15 | This last remark seemed to have gone home , as Johnny paled a little and a small muscle twitched at the corner of his mouth . |
| 16 | Eventually , just before 2 p.m. , a small delegation arrived at the Elephant and Castle seeking clarification of what would be on offer . |
| 17 | But Richard brought up siege machines and began to bombard the walls , concentrating on the fourth side where a small town nestled at the foot of the citadel . |
| 18 | A big grin appeared at the door , followed by the rest of Nigel , his trousers sodden to the waistband . |
| 19 | A pale face appeared at the door . |
| 20 | A blue Daimler stood at the edge of this area . |
| 21 | A final triumph came at the Paris exhibition of 1878 , where he and ( Sir ) Arthur Sullivan [ q.v. ] organized the British musical element , and Leslie 's choir won first prize in the international choral competition . |
| 22 | A Soviet official argued at the same time that Warsaw Pact proposals on the non-expansion of military-political groupings in Europe and on limiting the scale of military exercises also involved the interests of the non-aligned countries since ‘ the tendency towards expanding the NATO bloc directly affects the newly independent countries ’ . |
| 23 | A young lady appeared at the top of the stairs . |
| 24 | When a senior executive arrived at the studio a day or two later he found parcels piling up in the reception area . |
| 25 | His first appointment as a royal justice came at the end of Henry III 's reign . |
| 26 | In dense jungle or tall grass the shooting was usually done from elephant back , a comparatively safe exercise except when a cornered tiger sprang at the howdah in which the shikari and his gun-bearer were poised on the elephant . |