Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 1620 Warner lived at the Woolstable in Charing Cross and at Cranborne Lodge , near Windsor , with Sir Thomas Aylesbury [ q.v. ] , who sponsored his continued work on optics and mathematics . |
| 2 | Sophie gazed at the huge , ugly monster with his great broad head and tiny protuding eyes . |
| 3 | Whitlock shouted at the two policemen on the motorcycles to get the photographers back a few feet to give Mobuto a chance to get out of the limousine . |
| 4 | Doyle peered at the crumpled figure . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nervously Meredith gazed at the open water ahead and then back at Venice , the minarets and bell-towers , the tall palaces just a distant unfocused blur in the morning mist . |
| 7 | The superintendent gazed at the blank TV screen before suddenly turning to Franks , her eyes drained of laughter . |
| 8 | Her eyes gazed at the yellow light on the ceiling . |
| 9 | Nellie asked at the front door . |
| 10 | Corbett gazed at the distant line of trees . |
| 11 | Hill reported at the first general meeting that Lord Hamilton and Sir William Birt of the GER Co. had promised to help the Alliance in ‘ every way they could ’ ( SE 14 October 1899 ) . |
| 12 | ’ Bernice shouted at the giggling body beneath her . |
| 13 | Yuan 's eyes flickered at the vocative title ‘ sei-sen ’ — ‘ sword bearer ’ . |
| 14 | In other words , the real cost of employing labour rose at the same rate as productivity — over 3 per cent a year ( figure 8.3 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | David photographed at the Grammy Awards of 1975 with John Lennon , Yoko Ono and Roberta Flack |
| 17 | It is interesting to note how even euphemisms , symbolizing but not presenting marked terms , can be the more amusing for the conspiracy between scriptwriter , actors and audience in recognizing the term signified at the same time as superficially recognizing that its use is a taboo not to be broken . |
| 18 | It was from this starting-point that the structuralists arrived at the radical view that all meaning in every sphere of human activity consists of closed systems wholly independent of the material world . |
| 19 | Corbett nodded at the two hard-faced Sub-prioresses and went to order Ranulf and Maltote to saddle their horses as swiftly as possible . |
| 20 | Ronni was still fizzing with indignation — how dared he make fun of her ? — when , sure enough , a car arrived at the front door , laden with dishes dovered in tin foil . |
| 21 | Her eyes flared at the stinging insult , only too aware that he outstripped her professionally . |
| 22 | Donna glanced at the other visitors , noticing how diverse an audience were drawn to such a building . |
| 23 | Inside the car , Donna glanced at the two envelopes then slipped them into her handbag . |
| 24 | Becky yelled at the flustered marquis : |
| 25 | Meredith grinned at the outrageous exaggeration . |
| 26 | The 5-2 fav had drawn upsides The Vatman Cometh when that rival capsized at the final obstacle . |
| 27 | Koch started at the top seven years ago with an 85ft cruising boat , a 65ft fishing boat and an 81ft racing maxi named Matador , after the family ranch in Kansas . |
| 28 | Whether it was Millie 's infuriated strength that caused the woman 's grasp on the scissors to slacken , or that she changed her tactics and meant to direct the scissors towards the child 's face , could n't be known , but Millie grabbed at the open blades and , managing to twist them round , consciously or by accident drove one of the blades into the nun 's arm . |
| 29 | Madge looked at the four children clustered in the hallway . |
| 30 | Mrs. Hennessy looked at the open suitcase . |