Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind the glass an official from the Political Branch scowled at a worried-looking black . |
| 2 | This was weighted with a large wooden tag charred at the end where Father Barnes had put it down too close to a gas flame . |
| 3 | Militant feminists pointed out that sexual antagonism lay at the heart of the suffrage struggle and could never be resolved within the discourse of political liberalism . |
| 4 | Despite similar appeals by government officials , public discontent remained at a high level , and most workers continued their strike . |
| 5 | The old fear lurked at the back of his mind : suppose Lorton had set him up for Newley 's murder ? |
| 6 | A ghostly figure hovered at the end of the tunnel . |
| 7 | But The Waterline 's absorbing issue , forgiveness of oneself and others , disappears in the three narratives overcrowded with portent and incident , as if clear thinking quailed at the messiness of the world . |
| 8 | ASENIOR police officer and his wife and two children escaped injury yesterday after a bomb containing up to 10lb of high explosive exploded at the back of their bungalow in Drumbo , south of Belfast . |
| 9 | In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) . |
| 10 | Old Den stood at the opposite side of the grave with Tommy Drennan , each with a cord ready to help lay Celia and Dermot Murphy to rest . |
| 11 | The same groups of women are at risk : those of a promiscuous nature , and particularly those whose first sexual intercourse occurred at an early age . |
| 12 | We must hope it was a harbinger that the one riotously funny scene occurred at the end of the first episode , with Europe through . |
| 13 | The French boy glanced at the man for a moment , then shrugged . |
| 14 | Forster 's grotesque rubber mask nodded at the inferno . |
| 15 | A major exhibition of Tibetan art opened at the Royal Academy on 18 September as reports are coming out of Tibet that the Chinese have recently completed the ‘ restoration ’ of the Dalai Lama 's Potala Palace and the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa . |
| 16 | Old Red frowned at the floor . |
| 17 | What the hon. Gentleman said at the beginning of his question was entirely wrong . |
| 18 | The Labour Government neglected and cut resources for law and order , and the right hon. Gentleman sat at the table agreeing to those cuts . |
| 19 | A blackshawled French woman appeared at the window and rapped on it . |
| 20 | Its designated area lay at the heart of one of the most economically depressed cities in Western Europe which had suffered a massive withdrawal of private capital during the previous three decades and endured a series of political traumas in the process ( Parkinson , 1985 , Figure 3.1 ) . |
| 21 | A TEENAGE student appeared at a special youth court yesterday charged with murdering his 38-year-old mother and 67-year-old grandmother . |
| 22 | A TEENAGE student appeared at a special youth court yesterday charged with murdering his 38-year-old mother and 67-year-old grandmother . |
| 23 | Lucy 's self-contained sophistication sipped at the ultimately silly drink . |
| 24 | A faint smile grew across her face an while the old man sipped at the soup she gradually became the proud owner of a huge , cunning grin . |
| 25 | He carried Wynne-Jones on his back ; the old man beat at the thorns with his stick , one arm held tightly around his son 's neck . |
| 26 | Inside were a couple of benches , and several villagers were sitting patiently waiting for him , while an old man sat at the door smoking a smelly little pipe . |
| 27 | The French monarchy reciprocated at the deaths of their Plantagenet kinsmen and women . |
| 28 | The Abyssinian maid groped at the wall and switched on the light . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Fletcher Grange High School stood at the intersection of two main roads , a large , long , white building surrounded by playing fields , lawns , tennis courts , outbuildings and an intricate arrangement of gravel paths . |