Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one had asked how they were coping , or attempted to offer at the very least a listening ear . |
| 2 | Young people were afraid , wondering if they would have time to have their children , and became agitated at the racheting-up of international tensions in East and West . |
| 3 | When The Elder Statesman received less than adulatory notices , and failed to succeed at the box office , he was noticeably calm in his reaction . |
| 4 | The detour was to Holmstroyd and involved stopping at the jetty . |
| 5 | She paused in front of Barnes and Noble and pretended to look at the book display in the window . |
| 6 | Penry Vaughan ducked his tall head through the doorway and moved to stand at the foot of the bed in the shadows beyond the arc of light from the small lamp . |
| 7 | The goat stopped abruptly and tried to chew at the hem of Mrs Hollidaye 's brown jacket . |
| 8 | He bent to the carabineer at his waist , and tried to chew at the knot , to make it more supple . |
| 9 | When they immediately reacted with their automatic alarm response of rolling up into a tight ball , the entire family promptly rolled down the slope of the hill and came to rest at the man 's feet , where he picked them up and popped them into his collecting bag . |
| 10 | Fran closed her eyes , willing the frantic pounding of her pulse to slow , but when his fingers completed their slow journey and came to rest at the base of her neck she knew that he could feel every frantic beat . |
| 11 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 12 | When he married he rented a rambling red-brick Georgian house two miles away and bicycled to work at the forge most days . |
| 13 | As soon as they were amongst the shuttered houses of Edinburgh , Corbett slowed down and turned to grin at the pale , terrified face of Ranulf . |
| 14 | Mobuto climbed out slowly and turned to wave at the waiting photographers . |
| 15 | Luke dropped his grip on her and turned to glance at the door , as if he intended to go and put his question to the man himself . |
| 16 | He was nearing the top of the hill and turned to look at the view as an excuse for a breather . |
| 17 | In the wives ' hostel Jocelyn finished unpacking and turned to look at the other occupant of the room a pleasant woman of thirty five who had introduced herself as Jane Smith . |
| 18 | ‘ Good girl , ’ Lacuna said absently , and returned to sit at the bank of screens . |
| 19 | He dropped my wrists and began picking at the bread , rolling bits of it into little grey balls . |
| 20 | Charlie now found himself in front and began firing at the Germans as their heads popped up from behind the dug-outs . |
| 21 | But the second time round he became restless and began biting at the rope and making playful snaps at Angela 's heels , then at her basket . |
| 22 | The porter fell to his knees and began to scrabble at the soft soil next to the wooden scaffold pole . |
| 23 | Where or with whom James received his training is not known , but by 1783 he was established in London ; and in that year he announced himself by publishing a pamphlet on A Method of Constructing Vapour Baths , and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy . |
| 24 | At once he ran to the house and began scratching at the door . |
| 25 | When the power rear doors opened , the men moved out to the left and right of their vehicles , into their battle positions , and began to shoot at the enemy . |
| 26 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 27 | For the sake of appearances , he picked up another brush and began swatting at the sleeves and lapels of his suit . |
| 28 | One after another I picked up other stones and began to marvel at the diversity and beauty of them , that I had never noticed before . |
| 29 | After 1945 , the committee was allowed to divide itself into subcommittees , it gave up scrutinizing the estimates in detail and began to look at the way money was being spent in selected fields and how far government policy was being achieved . |
| 30 | Recovering , Emmie seized the thin old hearthrug and began to beat at the flames . |