Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn could smell the freshness of his cologne , see the way his eyes crinkled at the corners , notice for the first time the thickness of his lashes , the way his ebony hair would curl if allowed to grow long . |
| 2 | On either side of the central aisle , heads nodded at the buildings and streets around them as a now livelier Ashenden continued , himself ( like the site , it appeared ) splendidly restored from whatever malaise had affected him over the previous two days , a malaise which had been noted and commented upon by several others of the group besides Mrs Shirley Brown — the latter sitting comfortably now in her usual seat , the effects of the sting having cleared up fairly quickly under the twin application of Mrs Roscoe 's unguents . |
| 3 | Pompeian decoration features in ceramics , glass and metal from the 19th century as the public craved objects decorated with designs discovered at the excavations of the ancient Italian city between 1860–1875 . |
| 4 | His lips quirked at the corners . |
| 5 | His lips quirked at the corners in ill-disguised amusement . |
| 6 | His lips quirked at the corners . |
| 7 | Cars sat at the ends of roads for hours . |
| 8 | The mixture of religious vocabulary with philosophical ‘ idea/ reality ’ , and sexual vocabulary ( ‘ desire/ spasm ’ ) hopelessly rearrange the elements discovered at the roots of religion . |
| 9 | His face began to change , and small , shadowed lines appeared at the corners of his mouth and eyes . |
| 10 | Smile brackets appeared at the corners of her lipsticky mouth . |
| 11 | Nails slept at the stables almost every night , apparently going home for breakfast . |
| 12 | When the specimen was loaded in a testing machine the edges were stressed as much as the middle and so cracks started at the edges and spread inwards across the material in the usual way . |
| 13 | A few pale lights shone at the windows , but there was no sign of Rose . |
| 14 | In the Kensington exchange a group of Telecom engineers and police officers stared at the monitors and listened to the rage coming down the line ; at Cork Street , beneath the pavements of smart Mayfair , four men from MI5 were rooted in their chairs , motionless as the anger poured out of the speaker into the room and the tape-deck wound silently round and round . |
| 15 | But these studies looked at the interactions between species only to explore the process by which evolution produced complex adaptive structures . |
| 16 | In the 1970s more than one million Cambodians died at the hands of Pol Pot of the Khmer Rouge . |
| 17 | In the 1970s more than one million Cambodians died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot . |
| 18 | The fingers clenched jerkily as the arms flailed at the sides of the grave , tossing dirt aside in an attempt to gain a purchase on the soft earth . |
| 19 | Her oerlikons blazed at the batteries on the harbour wall as Bill Copland calmly marshalled the assault parties . |
| 20 | Groups of young men just off the tourist buses laughed at the pictures outside strip clubs , grabbing their own crotches and punching each other 's arms ; then they filed solemnly in . |
| 21 | Position your partner on his or her front , head to one side , arms relaxed at the sides or loosely bent with the hands at shoulder level . |
| 22 | In earlier centuries , scholars sat at the feet of their university teachers who expounded the Bible and other classical texts in the form of readings — or " lectures ' . |
| 23 | When Mr Graham first appeared in court reporting restrictions were lifted and Lorna Burns , for the prosecution , described how police arrived at the flats to find a man with a scarf around his face lying unconscious on the first-floor landing with a stab wound in his chest . |
| 24 | But when convoys of vehicles arrived at the sites to start their planned test drilling in August 1986 they met a blockade of people sitting in the road . |
| 25 | Dorcas looked at the others . |
| 26 | Dorcas looked at the nomes on either side of him , sighed , and eased himself up off his makeshift carrier . |
| 27 | A large continent of Ulster riders competed at the trials including Sonya Rowe from Portadown , Claire Gilpin from Tandragee , Stephen Smith from Gilford , Jane Harrison from Richhill and Margaret Creighton from Lisburn . |
| 28 | Western scholars may never discover how many Soviet citizens perished at the hands of Beria 's NKVD troops ( or Abakhumov 's SMERSH , operating in the enemy rear ) , but the scale and significance of their operations is well understood by those who command today 's KGB Border Guards and MVD Internal Troops , along with the ‘ special detachments ’ of the KGB and Armed Forces . |
| 29 | Eventually a Cun bowed and indicated for his brethren to follow him ; the others snarled at the Galks and walked away . |
| 30 | Professor Glennerster and others looked at the allegations and found no evidence of a two-tier structure emerging . |