Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 The physical and analytical chemistry department at DSM has looked at the distribution and migration of salts in limestone .
2 The exceptional moment when the spirit of Brahms materialised came at the beginning of the andante where Pauline Dowse 's cello solo evoked the inner stillness of the composer — all moonlight , warmth and swaying tree tops .
3 Dr Neil avoided looking at a bridling McAllister , particularly when Mrs Darrell went on to say , still in the same shriek , ‘ Hope she 's honest , Neil .
4 AT the age of 80 the Rev. Anthony Cunningham has jumped at the chance of a new job .
5 22 year old Lebanese chauffuer Ali Choukeir has appeared at the Palais de Justice charged with involuntary manslaughter .
6 His is a fury fanned by insensitive press coverage of homosexuality and the Aids epidemic ; the director best known for films like Caravaggio has leapt at the opportunity of reacting against ‘ licensed queer bashing ’ .
7 Bernice turned to rage at the woman .
8 Ellen turned to look at the rapidly disappearing Dream Baby .
9 A period of teacher training followed , after which Blamey returned to teach at the Regent Street Polytechnic where he remained , apart from a brief period during the war , until it combined with the Chelsea Polytechnic .
10 I mean Jason and Kylie getting married at the age of seventeen or something and then like two months later getting and one of them moving to Tasmania .
11 And young Paul Daly , the son of Brian , had a rather one-sided 21-10 win over Martin McHugh of Carrickfergus in the under-25 singles semi-final after McHugh selected to drive at the wrong time , which was right up Daly 's street .
12 Eleanor started hinting at an affair .
13 When they had gone , Maisie started to pick at the grass with her fingers .
14 Yesterday we won a vital victory in having Attorney General Sir Nicholas Lyell agree to look at the case .
15 She spoke to reporters from a ‘ secret location ’ at the weekend , describing how Mrs Mandela had arrived at the house early in the morning .
16 The Aborigines had suffered at the hands of the sealers — many of the women were kidnapped and put to work plucking birds for the feather trade — but they retained their custom of a spontaneous welcome for anyone who put into port on the island .
17 For the moment it is enough to observe that the Historie/ Geschichte dichotomy could very easily end up looking rather like Lessing 's between the accidental truths of history and the necessary truths of reason , or Fichte 's between the historical and the metaphysical , and thus lead to a position open to the same charge of Gnosticism that Baur had laid at the door of Hegel and Schleiermacher .
18 As Thorfinn had done at the start of his reign , in Fife .
19 Courtney had worked at the Whipps Cross and Charing Cross hospitals in England , at Dublin 's University College hospital , in Saudi Arabia and at the Royal Free hospital and medical school , where he was researching a project on caesarian sections .
20 Once , Bill Pertwee — again a staple member of the cast — remembered for me , Kenneth Horne made him write to the wife of an executive he thought Ken had insulted at a party given by the BBC for the Round The Horne cast .
21 In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken .
22 After Martin 's death his son Jean continued to reside at the rue de Harlay , and presumably became the master maker of the workshop .
23 Vesa had jumped at the idea .
24 In a statement quoted by Syrian Arab Republic Radio Arafat praised the pan-Arab position which Syria had expressed at the Madrid conference .
25 Donna sat looking at the box for long moments .
26 Molly stood looking at the lapping water with Ken Corduroy , expert on garden pools and pergolas , who had arrived quite unexpectedly in his Volvo estate .
27 Markby sat glowering at the gas fire which had dulled its bright flames and hissed in a soft insistent way .
28 Frere stood flustered at the turn their banter had taken .
29 And I know that Bob and Sue have booked at the Claremont so there 'll be quite a few of us there .
30 the situa , perhaps it 's worth outlining how Litchfield came to look at the new settlement option , because it has some relevance to York
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