Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] at [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 2 | Scott glanced at each of the policemen in turn , then motioned to the chairs close to his desk . |
| 3 | Pakistan finished at 388 for 3 , but were unable to continue until the Saturday , the second day being washed out and landing the TCCB with the second enormous refund of the series , this time estimated at anything up to £250,000 . |
| 4 | Paulie looked at one of the questions ! |
| 5 | Perdita woke at two in the morning . |
| 6 | When Gooch fell to a close-in catch off Mushtaq , and that artist of mystery compelled a nervous and fatal parry at a wider one by Stewart in his next over , England tottered at 65 for 4 . |
| 7 | Frank looked at each of them in turn , then sighed . |
| 8 | Smith , on 91 when England resumed at 245 for three , soon completed his first overseas Test hundred , and his eighth in all in his 40th Test . |
| 9 | Smith , who was on 91 when England resumed at 245 for three , soon completed his first overseas Test hundred — his eighth in all — in his 40th Test . |
| 10 | The Nikkei closed at 20,454 on April 28th — helped , to the market 's surprise , by intervention against the yen on the previous day by America 's Federal Reserve . |
| 11 | Instead , he was out first thing next morning for 110 and Gower declared at 300 for 9 , leaving West Indies to make 342 in four and a half hours and twenty overs . |
| 12 | Phil Oliver took over as wicketkeeper and Yorkshire declared at 365 for 8 after 103.3 overs , Geoffrey Boycott scoring 152 not out . |
| 13 | Tom arrived at twenty to eight — on schedule for his daily journey from London . |
| 14 | Moxon lost Simon Kellett to a skier to mid-on at 45 in the tenth over and Moxon fell at 95 to a mistimed sweep against off-spinner Harvey Trump . |
| 15 | Grant pointed at one of the screens . |
| 16 | Greenidge and Lloyd top-scored as West Indies declared at 251 for 9 , and then Holding , Roberts and Holder , restricted MCC to 197 , only Gilliat , the captain , having a substantial knock , and Amiss ducking into a bouncer which left him with four stitches in his scalp . |
| 17 | Injuries to two MCC bowlers helped Richards and Gomes both make centuries , and Lloyd declared at 248 for 3 , setting a target of 303 . |
| 18 | Where Sorenstam finished at 11 under par , Helen Alfredsson , her sister Swede , came in at seven under . |
| 19 | Delaney pointed at one of two major alleyways . |
| 20 | In so far as Derek thought at all about who had murdered Maurice Abberley — or why — he supposed a crazed hitch-hiker must have been responsible . |
| 21 | Mrs Raffald looked at both of us , for she wanted to tidy the drawing-room and suspected that when all the coffee was drunk we would go in there . |
| 22 | Deacon won £1,500 on Monday when his horse Mr Dynamic won at 50-1 at Newton Abbot . |
| 23 | Kopyion pointed at one of the screens . |
| 24 | Doherty agreed at first to be deported to Ireland as an illegal alien , but requested political asylum after the UK signed an extradition treaty with Ireland in 1987 . |
| 25 | Sitting together on a settee as they faced hostile questioning , Bill Clinton seemed at first to be struggling as he was tackled over the Flowers affair . |
| 26 | Chapman drove at 50 to 60mph before he was stopped by a police patrol car . |
| 27 | The Reef Bar was packed when Christina arrived at ten past six . |
| 28 | Ipuky looked at neither of them . |
| 29 | James Cran rose at 5.17 on the Thursday morning of the Maastricht Bill debate . |
| 30 | Freda retired at 65 in 1970 and died in 1980 . |