Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 31 | Heathcliff and Hareton stood at the door , laughing , as I shouted at the dogs and tried to get up . |
| 32 | Thus , as Rickie feebly dabbed at the deck and as his sister ate , our happy ship sailed on . |
| 33 | The terrifying blast erupted at the Hickson and Welch chemical works near Castleford rugby league ground at 1.20pm yesterday . |
| 34 | Finding nothing , it lashed at the walls and screamed in fury . |
| 35 | Thawed at the red and black disgorging of abbeys , |
| 36 | The way forward could only be through a measure of government intervention and inevitably it provoked at the time and in its later consequences , or lack of them , sharp controversy which did much to form the particular arguments reformers used to articulate their basic ideological assumptions . |
| 37 | He nodded at the photographer and flipped another butt into the toilet , then pressed the flush . |
| 38 | On either side of the central aisle , heads nodded at the buildings and streets around them as a now livelier Ashenden continued , himself ( like the site , it appeared ) splendidly restored from whatever malaise had affected him over the previous two days , a malaise which had been noted and commented upon by several others of the group besides Mrs Shirley Brown — the latter sitting comfortably now in her usual seat , the effects of the sting having cleared up fairly quickly under the twin application of Mrs Roscoe 's unguents . |
| 39 | But the Venezuelan turned at the door and ordered us to come downstairs and drink with them . |
| 40 | I turned at the door and said , ‘ Just write the truth , tuan Hans , that will be the message . ’ |
| 41 | She turned at the gate and waved to me . |
| 42 | But suddenly it turned and galloped at the house and to my horror it leapt gigantically up and straight at me with bared teeth . |
| 43 | Adam hauled at the roof and the whole cave lurched , falling . |
| 44 | Bewick Swans first overwintered at the Wildfowl and Wetlands trust 45 years ago , and nowadays around three hundred return every year . |
| 45 | I frowned at the phone and waited for Eric to say something . |
| 46 | Great Missenden time ! ’ the man bellowed at the doorkeeper and pointed to his watch . |
| 47 | Primaflora was absent when he arrived at the villa and when she returned , an hour later , she was wearing a girdle and a left sleeve he had never seen before , and a jewelled coif with a curled feather in it . |
| 48 | After the Zombie 's travels through Victorian London ( where , incidentally , he committed the crimes attributed to Jack the Ripper ) he arrived at the Grange and enlisted the help of Tick , a deformed coachman of evil character ( played by Charles Paris ) . |
| 49 | To their combined relief , it was not long before the two men arrived at the driveway and stepped cautiously out onto its surface . |
| 50 | The discovery was made at 11.30am after staff arrived at the pub and found they could not get in . |
| 51 | We arrived at the border and ‘ commenced battle ’ with the Hungarian border guards who made their inevitable demand for ‘ whisky , chocolates , etc etc ’ . |
| 52 | Then on the 16th May , 1775 a Corporation committee and a team of labourers , having served notice on Mr. Guinness , arrived at the brewery and set out to cut off and fill in the water course from which the brewery drew its supplies . |
| 53 | More folk arrived at the hide and we relinquished our places . |
| 54 | A few weeks later , Beatrix arrived at the camp and took us away . ’ |
| 55 | A police car finally arrived at the scene and officers spoke to the motorist . |
| 56 | Eventually , just before 2 p.m. , a small delegation arrived at the Elephant and Castle seeking clarification of what would be on offer . |
| 57 | It was eight o'clock when we arrived at the station and got on the train , and by half-past nine we were in Strelsau . |
| 58 | Anyway , arrived at the station and there was this great coach standing there waiting to take them all to . |
| 59 | We arrived at the house and my Dad introduced me to a woman . |
| 60 | He said the men began to ‘ panic and swear ’ when police arrived at the house and Maher appeared at the window , saying : ‘ This is something which has gone terribly wrong . ’ |