Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he was fed and clothed just for sitting still , and crowds looked at him and sighed — ‘ Aaaah ! ’ |
| 2 | Cameron passed it by , the man could stew in his choler for a while , and when the dark came on and his servants and womenfolk grued at every owl-call or salmon-splash from the river , his defiance would burn lower and he would give his name . |
| 3 | These results appear rather striking since DNAaseI is a bulky enzyme and phosphates alkylated at -39.5 , -38.5 , -37.5 and -36.5 are known to interfere with RNA polymerase binding [ 29,30 ] . |
| 4 | She walked back into the house , and Piers glanced at her with one raised eyebrow . |
| 5 | They trickled down her cheeks , and Piers looked at her , alarmed . |
| 6 | The finished brow and eyes leered at her and she imagined a bacchanalian wreath twined in the wisped locks of his hair . |
| 7 | An early train from Minya left us at Roda , a country station where old taxis and barouches waited at a crossroads for fares . |
| 8 | HEp-2 ( ATCC CCL 23 ) , obtained from the European Collection of Animal Cell Cultures ( ECACC , PHLS , CAMR , Salisbury ) , were maintained in Eagle 's Minimum Essential Medium ( MEM , Gibco Ltd ) containing Earle 's salts , fetal calf serum ( 10% ) and antibiotics incubated at 37°C in humidified atmospheres of either 10% CO 2 in air of 10% CO 2 , 5% O 2 in nitrogen . |
| 9 | In side-streets , special Stasi units and paddy-wagons waited at the ready . |
| 10 | Traditional friendships and rivalries played at least as important a part in this process as purely financial considerations . |
| 11 | My first Rolex-Jackie Stewart Celebrity Challenge was in June 1984 when all the competitors and guests stayed at the Grosvenor Hotel in Chester , and the teams competing in the challenge clay pigeon shooting , shot at the North Wales Shooting School at Sealand , near Chester , run by the Jones brothers . |
| 12 | If this reaction seems overstated , it is simply the effect of holidays spent and expectations dulled at some of Europe 's best resorts . |
| 13 | She drove slowly in Conterchi so as not to miss the turning and Italians hooted at her or raised their fingers in gestures she knew to be obscene . |
| 14 | Many of the smaller shops , factories and workshops closed at once . |
| 15 | Her heart raced like a riptide ; her ears rang and lights fizzed at the back of her eyes as if she 'd just dived deep into the bosom of Ocean . |
| 16 | Although it is doubtful that throughout the middle ages masters and servants ate at the same table , above and below the salt , as the Victorians supposed , the Gothic hall , entered directly from the outside world and accommodating every social rank , symbolized their ideal of social integration . |
| 17 | Pins and needles tingled at her nerve-endings — sweet Georgina Price indeed ! |
| 18 | The mountain peaks and ridges clawed at the sky and Maggie stopped thinking altogether . |
| 19 | Sales rose 11 p.c. to £314m in 1991 and profits grew at the same rate , to £13.4m before taxation . |
| 20 | The " atmosphere of ideological domineering " had been replaced by freedom of thought and glasnost , and leaders had at last begun to tell people the truth . |
| 21 | Outside the city we passed by a refugee camp where white-faced , unsmiling boys and girls gazed at us through the railings . |
| 22 | Hands and arms relaxed at your sides except when making gestures to add emphasis to a point . |
| 23 | FAMILY knew of whole streets where women went out to work and men stayed at home and neglected the children . |
| 24 | The king 's foresters and verderers complained at the Huntingdon Forest Eyre in 1286 that they had gone to Benwick to make an inquest of the venison . |
| 25 | People in swimsuits or shorts and tops strolled at liberty on the wide sands . |
| 26 | Firs and pines flourished at Whitton and Miller made a special note of Abies canadensis , i.e. Picea glauca , the white spruce from America . |
| 27 | Professor Glennerster and others looked at the allegations and found no evidence of a two-tier structure emerging . |
| 28 | Sarah Fyge Egerton , Elizabeth Rowe , the Countess of Winchilsea , and others made at least some mark on the literary mainstream . |
| 29 | Their father — also named Gerrard — died three days after his car and others crashed at Blidworth , Notts . |
| 30 | Kangaroos and horses arrived at different endpoints in " animal space " , probably because of some accidental difference in their starting points . |