Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torpedo-shaped glass lifts offered noiseless access to the different levels , on one of which a pianist sat at a grand piano playing classical music while an enormous golden pendulum suspended from the roof swung slowly from one side of the atrium to the other . |
| 2 | Suddenly , a light appeared at a window and a terrified face peered out . |
| 3 | Based on the shape of this receptive field , they then search for the stimulus that gives the best response from it , and in Figure 7 you see that one particular cell responded best to movement of a bar oriented at a particular angle , and also that it only responded when this bar moved in one direction . |
| 4 | As he passed through a small piazza there was a shout and a boy appeared at a window holding a bulging plastic shopping bag which he let drop to a friend in the street who stood , arms raised to catch it . |
| 5 | A parttime member of the UDR who was the son of a representative on the UUAC was killed when a bomb exploded at a petrol filling station where he and his wife were making a purchase and , in a further incident , a bus driver was shot dead at the wheel of his vehicle . |
| 6 | Mr Lewis came to a halt and for a moment seemed at a loss as to how he should go on . |
| 7 | A tomcat sprang at a mounted knight , |
| 8 | It 's just been announced that three Oxford University students have been suspended for a year after a friend died at a drink and drugs party . |
| 9 | A man appeared at a special sitting of Scarborough magistrates on Saturday accused of attempted rape . |
| 10 | A row erupted at a council meeting over the issue this when Sefton 's chief executive Graham Haywood urged councillors to back down over the strict conditions . |
| 11 | There were more false starts , repetitions and parenthetic remarks during hesitant phases in which a speaker looked at a listener and more of these disturbances in the immediately following ‘ fluent ’ phase . |
| 12 | There were pictures on every page : an heiress danced at a charity ball with a matador half her age — ’ Enrico makes me feel like a child again ’ , an ageing pop star posed with his new wife — ’ Now I really do have everything . ’ |
| 13 | Sculley said he did not believe anyone had been able to build an HDTV set at a reasonable price . |
| 14 | An MP sat at a small table beside it . |