Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Even then he did not fight to recover his own hold on safety , but strained at his slipping grip on the man , dragging him outwards . |
2 | Steel doors rose at their rear ends and heavily ammed men dropped to the ground . |
3 | She winced at his ruthless manipulation , and he moved forwards quickly , confounding her by kneeling and pulling away her hands , holding them by her sides , the weight of his body pressing against her as his mouth came inexorably closer towards her pulsating nipple . |
4 | In 1863 the 200-ton brig Comet sank at her Funchal anchorage , and in 1877 the schooner Patagonia went ashore near Ponta São Lourenço . |
5 | Again , as early as 1969 , it was Glenn Gould who , having seen some of the early Karajan/ Clouzot films of orchestral and choral music , rejoiced at their imaginative refutation of what he called the ‘ proscenium psychology ’ . |
6 | Mrs Alderley gazed stupefied at his rigid back . |
7 | She peered at its various buttons and dials and wondered if it were possible to wreck it by unintentional mis-setting . |
8 | He peered at her wet face . |
9 | Her voice had grown jerky and breathless and she caught at his caressing hand . |
10 | The police officer gaped at his Swiss Police knife . |
11 | Meredith fumed at his liquefying eyes and the contemptuous curl of his sculpted mouth . |
12 | Buckmaster dabbed at his thin lips with his napkin . |
13 | She bridled at his autocratic tone . |
14 | SAS Institute Inc 's contribution to the proceedings will consist of five new component modules that will sit upon its base analysis and reporting software package , most already previewed at its European User conference in Vienna back in June ( UX No 387 ) . |
15 | Ruth nibbled at her coloured pencil . |
16 | Twoflower took out the golden disc that Rincewind had noticed before , squinted at its unseen face for a moment , muttered ‘ Thirty seconds should about do it , ’ and said brightly , ‘ Smile please ! ’ |
17 | She squinted at his sunstarred silhouette . |
18 | It 's your body , ’ she said , amazed at her good humour . |
19 | Is it important enough to drag him out of bed ? ’ she asked sarcastically , amazed at her inner strength . |
20 | Padding across the shaggy lawn in her slippers , she was accompanied by a tortoise-shell cat which repeatedly darted at her pink pom-poms . |
21 | Mrs Clamp nodded at her much-salted fish and sipped her tea . |
22 | Nothing memorable happened at their only meeting , in a Gloucestershire sanatorium , though Malcolm Muggeridge once remarked that he would have loved to see and hear them together , and it is still open to anyone to write an imaginary conversation of the event . |
23 | Lorton rinsed the lather from his skin and frowned at his clean-shaven face . |
24 | He licked at his damaged hand with his enormous soft pink tongue , just like a dog washing itself . |
25 | HERALD G-APWA arrived at its new home , the Museum of Berkshire Aviation on the former Woodley Aerodrome , Berks , on August 29 after a road journey from Southend Airport . |
26 | And so in 1967 the first Hercules arrived at its new home . |
27 | Purism was an exercise in reason and even the Dadaists arrived at their apparent absurdities by a process of rational thought . |
28 | They certainly did n't realise for the length of that trip that they were travelling with another stallion , and the horses arrived at their new home safely . |
29 | The realisation that the transition from exclusion to inclusion is a slow manoeuvre and that community care evolves rather than happens became clear soon after Elizabeth and Helen arrived at their new home . |
30 | When Frances arrived at her new home , to be followed weeks later by her children and their nanny , she had every hope that the children would be relatively unaffected by her marital breakdown , especially as Sarah and Jane were away at boarding-school . |