Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 2 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 3 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 4 | The ducks gazed thoughtfully at the sky and flapped their wings , but not so much as a peep was uttered by any of them . |
| 5 | Ankles remain together at all times and feet should be over the knees . |
| 6 | Ingrid Heseltine , an EC civil servant , found the vacancies tucked away at the back of Euro documents , printed in French . |
| 7 | Do n't these people realise that dozens of reviewers are likely to spend several hours gazing blankly at the album sleeve as they try to come up with some natty simile to describe the musical contents therein ? |
| 8 | Recent analyses have shown positive host-economy effects in terms of their greater adaptability to local conditions , greater use of labour-intensive technology , and greater skills to work profitably at small scale . |
| 9 | Reactions Carried Out at Constsnt Volume |
| 10 | Reactions Carried Out at Constant Pressure |
| 11 | Luigi looked across at Sandy and winked . |
| 12 | The system of planning controls imposes limits on their freedom to locate operations where they will or to increase the scale , or change the nature , of the activities carried on at a particular site . |
| 13 | That was the trouble with harbour-watching , there were so many inexplicable activities carried on at a stately pace and with the deliberation of a choreographed performance . |
| 14 | There were two black entertainers banging away at a piano . |
| 15 | Rents on new takings rose hardly at all on Crown lands between the 1550s and the 1590s , whereas on the Seymour estates they increased fivefold and on the Herbert lands by 80 per cent . |
| 16 | All the pubs and clubs empty out at the same time . |
| 17 | Colours and patterns changed hardly at all and the dinky club badge remained firmly in place . |
| 18 | Where a transfer of value is made by associated operations carried out at different times it shall be treated as made at the time of the last of them . |
| 19 | In the 118 cases mentioned in at least one national newspaper ( 70 were in only local papers ) , there were only 19 cases ( 16 per cent ) where the coverage of the incident lasted more than one day , and only 8 where this lasted several days . |
| 20 | His blue eyes twinkled down at her with sudden , unexpected mischief and he offered her his arm . |
| 21 | Her eyes levelled appraisingly at Christina , who flushed at the mention of Martin 's name and buried her face behind the menu . |
| 22 | Iain looked up when Andrew came in but quickly returned his attention to the screen when he heard the volley of shots and his lips parted slightly at the crescendo of violence and glamour . |
| 23 | Many of the more glamorous film and photographic opportunities crop up at short notice , so you have to be flexible . |
| 24 | His wicked , mocking eyes gleamed down at her . |
| 25 | Hard black eyes gleamed down at her . |
| 26 | The two brothers met again at their ancestral home in the year 2326 when Teclis returned for their father 's funeral . |
| 27 | It was a large black dog with large orb-like eyes gazing up at him with a malevolent gaze . |
| 28 | Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's my fault , ’ he said later when she was sitting up , her eyes gazing blankly at the opposite wall . |
| 30 | Then , in the light reflected from the snow , he saw Manescu 's dark eyes gazing back at him . |