Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were so many mourners at the funeral that some had to stand at the back and listen to the service relayed by loudspeakers . |
| 2 | This new assessment of his home marked an important casting off , a kind of liberation , and if in later years Ottery remained symbolically important to Coleridge , that was only because his recollections of the shaping years of childhood all seemed to gather at the town . |
| 3 | Top service brass , diplomats and the intelligence community all tended to look at the world in more interventionist terms than a decade earlier . |
| 4 | They almost all wanted to stay at the fabulous old Hotel Mamounia , a place of wonderful gardens and lakes that had achieved fame when Winston Churchill came to paint there in the fifties . |
| 5 | They both turned to look at the child . |
| 6 | " Ah , excuse me , They both turned to look at the winding-stair door , where the small attendant was peeking round the side , most of its body hidden in the twisted darkness beyond . |
| 7 | They both began to speak at the same time , and Fen gestured to her to go first . |
| 8 | The leaders had their work cut out keeping the group together , and one or both had to remain at the back to motivate the slower ones — the most effective method seemed to be carrying their kit , though this tended to be a last resort . |