Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adj] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The detective who found the money believed at first the notes must be forgeries . |
| 2 | The delicatessen was owned by a most enterprising Indian who opened at all the times when other places were shut . |
| 3 | He glanced at all the bits of paper hanging higgledy-piggledy on the furniture and walls . |
| 4 | She performed with great natural charm in a television interview and marvelled at all the stretch-limousines she rode in . |
| 5 | Then to find all the OTHER under-5 activities we called at all the Sports Centres and Community centres in the area , and finally we also looked at ANY noticeboard ANY where ! |
| 6 | erm I 'm not someone who 's for , for example , erm positive discrimination where that means choosing a woman when there 's a better man erm and I think that erm although some feminists do , certainly it 's not a necessary condition of being a feminist , and I certainly do n't , and I think that if John Major erm sincerely looked at all the women who could have been in his cabinet , and sincerely judged their abilities erm compared to the men who were available , erm and decided that the women were n't ready , then I think that 's , that 's a possible position . |
| 7 | Do you think that in all schools the head always looked at all the reports ? |
| 8 | Charles opened the folder and looked at all the photographs . |
| 9 | Amundsen stopped for a minute , and looked at all the men slowly . |
| 10 | The people were all obviously successful , a scene duplicated at all the tables of The Magpie : success in the City , in Whitehall , in the Ivory Towers of the great teaching hospitals , and at Lincoln 's Inn . |
| 11 | By June 15 UN World Food Programme ( WFP ) officials in Nairobi numbered at 400,000 the refugees who had left Ethiopia for Sudan following the overthrow in May of the Mengistu regime . |
| 12 | People sat at all the tables in the bar , and some tables , there was like two lots of people sat around the same table , sharing a table . |
| 13 | He wanted to sleep , and the prospect of a bed , even one which he would be required to occupy without companionship , was so attractive that he missed at first the signs that all was not well . |