Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel raised her left hand and peered at the ring in the dim light cast by the clock-candle burning near the bed . |
| 2 | Jaq peered at the face in the screen — especially at the eyes — for signs of a daemon rooted within the man 's psyche . |
| 3 | Meredith trembled at the tenderness in his tone . |
| 4 | She trembled at the passion in his voice , her whole being coming alive just for him . |
| 5 | The snake 's skin trembled at the movement in the air . |
| 6 | Dot shouted at the hump in the pink satin eiderdown . |
| 7 | A Staffordshire University graduate is organising a reunion for ceramics students who studied at the centre in 1965 when it was North Staffordshire College of Technology . |
| 8 | He studied at the conservatoire in Frankfurt 1909–11 , and with Carl Beines in Freiburg , and made a youthful début in 1913 as Tamino in The Magic Flute at the Neues Stadt-Theater in Chemnitz , of which his father was director , with instant success . |
| 9 | Suragai gestured at the arrow in his shield . |
| 10 | His first taste of Test captaincy came at the Oval in 1988 ; he was unable to stem the West Indian flood , but produced a battling second innings to make a game of it . |
| 11 | Since Evans first dug at the site in 1900 archaeological work has largely concentrated on revealing the remains of the palace of King Minos and other buildings of the extraordinary Minoan civilisation . |
| 12 | Created in Lucca over the summer months of last year , they are titled ‘ The Sedimentary Paintings ’ and employ the sands of Tuscany and Umbria in looser compositions than those carefully crafted geometric designs which the artist showed at the gallery in 1991 . |
| 13 | Lee , who is the subject of Sean Scully 's ‘ Catherine ’ series of paintings to be collected by the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art in May , showed at the gallery in 1989 , her first solo exhibition in this country , and was included in a couple of mixed exhibitions in 1992 , but her reputation is more firmly established on the Continent , where an acclaimed survey exhibition took place recently at Munich 's Lenbachhaus and at the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz in Austria . |
| 14 | Turakina frowned at the sarcasm in his tone . |
| 15 | Shiona frowned at the phone in total bewilderment . |
| 16 | They arrived at the airport in the morning . |
| 17 | In the book , Benjamin arrived at the church in time to stop the wedding and there was no further ‘ moral transgression ’ . |
| 18 | Worshippers arrived at the temple in Ealing , west London , to find the doors had been soaked in petrol and set on fire . |
| 19 | Opened by another Mr Perkins who was staying at the same hotel , the package was passed to police who were ready and waiting for the actor when he arrived at the hotel in Cardiff . |
| 20 | When Behbehanian arrived at the hotel in Aswan , he was shown into the Shah 's suite . |
| 21 | First T.4 arrived at the OCU in August 1953 . |
| 22 | The procession , which included only the Queen , the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of Kent from the Royal Family , arrived at the chapel in pouring rain . |
| 23 | Since she was not particularly enamoured of Madame de Montijo it is little wonder that she arrived at the Cathedral in a state of high discontent . |
| 24 | When Helen arrived at the hall in which the choir concert was to be held she could not at first see Giles Carnaby . |
| 25 | Formerly a student of John Golding , Mr Elderfield arrived at the museum in 1975 and has curated ‘ Fauvism and its affinities ’ ( 1976 ) ; ‘ Matisse in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art ’ ( 1978 ) ; ‘ The drawings of Matisse ’ ( 1984 ) ; ‘ Kurt Schwitters ’ ( 1985 ) ; and was a co-organiser of ‘ Matisse in Morocco ’ ( 1990 ) . |
| 26 | Everywhere one looked there were unaccustomed trophies on display and , when the visiting Ryder Cup team arrived at The Belfry in the last few moments of the decade , they were greeted by the sight of the Ryder , Curtis and Walker Cups , knowing that the last name on them was not that of the United States of America . |
| 27 | Ramsey arrived at the university in October 1923 . |
| 28 | Although the material was systematically arranged as it was collected , the system changed very significantly at least three times , and by the time it arrived at the Institute in Nottingham , any order there had been in the files of material was lost . |
| 29 | We arrived at the station in time but where was Tumbleweed ? |
| 30 | I arrived at the station in good time and chained my travel-bag to the luggage rack . |