Example sentences of "[vb past] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She peered at the smaller typewriter 's message : |
| 32 | ‘ Pardon ? ’ as he peered at the smaller hump . |
| 33 | The Weasel stepped up to the horse and peered at the dishevelled figure . |
| 34 | They both knelt on the carpet and peered at the large magazine , turning the pages . |
| 35 | I could take no more but stood by the door whilst once more Benjamin peered at the blood-stained clothing . |
| 36 | Doyle peered at the crumpled figure . |
| 37 | stroked at every creaming touch |
| 38 | This enabled them once again to draw up a profile of those high-risk subjects who developed schizophrenia , which turned out to be similar to that reported at an earlier stage of the research . |
| 39 | Smiling , she wondered whether he ever moved at a normal pace . |
| 40 | It was impossible to hurry but they moved at a steady pace , pausing seldom . |
| 41 | One behind the other , Grant leading , they moved at a fast walk . |
| 42 | Furthermore , the wages of artisans , although they moved at a different rate , followed the same general pattern of increasing real values at approximately the same dates . |
| 43 | See some different characteristics and a supersonic and so that then , so the elevator and control services because at supersonic speeds , if you moved at the same distance , at six hundred mile an hour the elevator went like that , so that sort of |
| 44 | And Herbert Morrison moved at the same conference a resolution condemning the government 's introduction of conscription : the resolution was carried by more than three to one . |
| 45 | It had been aimed at my head , but I moved at the last second , prompted by some unclassified intuition of survival . |
| 46 | ‘ Oh no ! ’ they exclaimed at the same time . |
| 47 | Angrily she snatched at the home-made corsage . |
| 48 | She trembled at the razor-sharp sleet of misery : losing Lucy . |
| 49 | Lucenzo reached out and pushed back the tress of copper hair which had fallen over her forehead , and she trembled at the sensual drift of his fingers over her face . |
| 50 | Compared with the ICC — whose point was brilliantly proved by strong refereeing at Bridgetown in April by Raman Subba Row — the English Board got close to the root of the problem but unaccountably jibbed at the final fence . |
| 51 | The source of DNA was plasmid pFRC64 ( 14 ) , which contains a 198 bp long AccI-HindIII DNA fragment from phage φ29 genome , containing both P A2b and P A3 promoters , cloned at the SmaI site of pUC19Ο , so that transcription from P A2b promoter faces the unique EcoRI site from the pUC polylinker sequence . |
| 52 | Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool . |
| 53 | ‘ We clustered at the narrow doorway , resting our useless hands upon our heads as substitutes for steel helmets . |
| 54 | Sanjurjo perished at the very outset when the plane taking him back to Spain from his Portuguese exile crashed on take-off . |
| 55 | And I mentioned at the last meeting I think what has actually been said in the erm meeting I could repeat that , but I mean it confirms exactly what you 're saying . |
| 56 | Right , er we mentioned at the last meeting that Richard was on our side in our attempts to bring back the schools liaison officers into the fold . |
| 57 | The snow was coming down in thick flakes , adding to the unreal appearance as they chugged slowly from one bank to the other , and she was delighted that they stopped at every single stop . |
| 58 | At a little after one of the sunny afternoon clock they stopped at a vast motorway services area thingy . |
| 59 | On arrival at a solitary farm we stopped at a simple stone monument which marked the nearby crash-sites for F/L Mackid 's Lancaster , : 7572 ‘ L ’ and F/L Poole 's Halifax , W1020 ‘ K ’ . |
| 60 | They stopped at a small bar where everybody spoke Irish , which made Jessica feel very odd , as if she had wandered to a very foreign country , then drove out along the switchback road laid on the bog , through soil so thin and bitter that the white stone bones of Ireland protruded everywhere , mocking the tiny ancient farmsteads where generations had failed even to subsist . |