Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Compared with the ICC — whose point was brilliantly proved by strong refereeing at Bridgetown in April by Raman Subba Row — the English Board got close to the root of the problem but unaccountably jibbed at the final fence . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | ‘ We clustered at the narrow doorway , resting our useless hands upon our heads as substitutes for steel helmets . |
| 36 | Sanjurjo perished at the very outset when the plane taking him back to Spain from his Portuguese exile crashed on take-off . |
| 37 | It stopped at the usual place , and a soldier in a red and gold uniform jumped down . |
| 38 | We stopped at the far end just under the small choir loft where there was a recess leading up to the tower . |
| 39 | They stopped at the modern bungalow that was the home and office of the local police constable . |
| 40 | They stopped at the balustraded terrace overlooking the small lake , and leaned over ; below , enormous golden fish lay around in the green water . |
| 41 | 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 : |
| 42 | Elisabeth stopped at the old peat barge , the single landmark on an otherwise featureless wilderness . |
| 43 | Rory sucked at the tiny wound and spat , trying to remove any dirt . |
| 44 | She ran her lithe tongue over the helmet of his quivering rod , and sucked at the trembling shaft like an angel from heaven . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | I sucked at the little trickle of blood from my finger . |
| 47 | SCOTTISH fencers excelled at the British Age Group Championships , Croydon . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | I trained at the Royal and I 'll be able to get you a bed immediately . ’ |
| 50 | Mr Taylor , who trained at the Royal Ballet School with Mr Gable at the age of 16 , defended his report when he told the D & S on Wednesday : |
| 51 | Jess gaped at the clear instruction . |
| 52 | Paralysed with terror , Evelyn gaped at the thundering carriage moving inexorably down towards the tiny girl like a horror in a nightmare . |
| 53 | I cried out in shock , then gaped at the empty stairs disappearing into blackness . |
| 54 | They gaped at the massive columns and passed on . |
| 55 | Yuan 's eyes flickered at the vocative title ‘ sei-sen ’ — ‘ sword bearer ’ . |
| 56 | I lapped at the warm , rich blood ; very nice , very fresh . |
| 57 | A radiation leak occurred at the Russian nuclear power station at Sosnovyy Bor , 90 km west of St Petersburg , on March 24 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | This occurred at the main dispensing chemist in Wirral 's largest township : |
| 60 | Wills presided at the inaugural meeting of the Bristol Union Society for the Promotion of Sunday Schools , and his son , W.D . |