Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] 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 | Kendra Sone looks at the early findings |
| 4 | Doyle peered at the crumpled figure . |
| 5 | David Foot looks at the amiable ‘ Ghost ’ |
| 6 | Margaret Heraty looks at the key recommendations |
| 7 | Article 96 of the Company 's Articles of Association requires Mr Blacker , Mr Brown and Mr Walker to retire at the Annual General Meeting since they were appointed by the Board after the 1989 Annual General Meeting . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nellie asked at the front door . |
| 10 | Corbett gazed at the distant line of trees . |
| 11 | Lido di Camaiore lies at the northern end of Viareggio , next to Marina di Pietrasanta , in the most fashionable part of the Tuscan coast . |
| 12 | ’ Bernice shouted at the giggling body beneath her . |
| 13 | Tonight in the first of two reports , Richard Barnett looks at the traditional family links that have sustained the regiment down the centuries , in The Glosters … |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Making a sound in his throat , he turned his head away , then said , ‘ Funny thing , but neither am I ; yet I 've had to get used to it ; ’ and on this he went out , leaving Millie looking at the big fat woman and feeling she must make conversation : ‘ It 's a beautiful morning , ’ she said . |
| 16 | David photographed at the Grammy Awards of 1975 with John Lennon , Yoko Ono and Roberta Flack |
| 17 | Donna glanced at the other visitors , noticing how diverse an audience were drawn to such a building . |
| 18 | Becky yelled at the flustered marquis : |
| 19 | Meredith grinned at the outrageous exaggeration . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Mrs. Hennessy looked at the open suitcase . |
| 23 | Leicestershire lay at the very heart of open-field England . |
| 24 | Corbett looked at the old drunken face and knew Benstede was being sardonic . |
| 25 | Corbett looked at the faded , secret seal of his royal master . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , at that precise second , the makeshift platform gave way and Bobby disappeared at the very height of his rhetoric with the chairman , the union secretary , the workers ’ deputy and the four constables who by now had infiltrated the platform party . |
| 27 | It was Brainsby 's idea for Richard Branson to arrive at the inaugural press conference wearing a brown leather aviator 's helmet , à la Biggles , in an attempt to lend the launching of an international airline something of the savour of a Boys Own adventure . |
| 28 | Of course , I avoided so much work , going out to the bloody square on Tower Hill to gawk at the gore-drenched platform where the Great Ones of the land had their heads cut off . |
| 29 | Gaveston looked at the young page boy standing near him , a goblet of wine in his small white hands . |
| 30 | Grimma stared at the huge face . |