Example sentences of "appeared at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Thessy 's scared face appeared at the other cabin door , but I shook my head at him , mimicked sleep , and he ducked back inside .
2 An elderly man and his wife appeared at the other end of the bar .
3 A large man and a small boy appeared at the other end of the platform : she hobbled on her heels , humping her heavy suitcase , towards them .
4 Noreen appeared at the prompt side and little Maria turned to her and sang the next verse to her .
5 At eleven o'clock the big Volvo appeared at the far end of the hangar and drove slowly towards him , coming to a stop with its engine running forty feet away .
6 He had just reached the box when a man on a bicycle appeared at the far end of the street .
7 Moments later an official appeared at the far end of the corridor and hurried to him .
8 ‘ Indeed … ’ began Wu Shih , then stopped , turning as his Chancellor appeared at the far end of the gallery .
9 Celtic made the breakthrough in the 11th minute when the recalled Charlie Nicholas was first presented with an opening six yards from goal but hesitated , leaving the chance to his striking partner , Frank McAvennie , who appeared at the far post to squeeze the ball in .
10 When Bathsheba first appeared at the weekly Casterbridge market , where farmers bought and sold their wheat and animals , she caused a sensation .
11 Despite the fact that representatives of both Korea and Taiwan appeared at the public hearing on the issue to argue their case , Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is expected to grant the request for certification .
12 The Trap somehow appeared at the easiest end of the HVS graded list ; it should be at the top !
13 This hotel was at that time a sort of private dwelling crammed with the owner 's collection of Catalan works of art and pastel portraits of the great singers who appeared at the nearby Opera .
14 B. T. Some of the inspectors always appeared at the wrong time .
15 Tilda 's six-year-old legs , in wellingtons caked with mud , appeared at the open hatch .
16 That someone reached the landing and appeared at the open door of the bedroom .
17 But he appeared at the Old Bailey for an earlier trespass at Buckingham Palace , during which he had drunk some wine in the office of the Prince of Wales ' private secretary , and was sent to a secure hospital in Liverpool .
18 They put on separate roadshows as they appeared at the same event for the first time since Mr Major 's statement in the House of Commons .
19 Metty is a misfit , as Golding 's Matty is in Darkness Visible , a novel which appeared at the same time as Naipaul 's .
20 As a clue to that significance we might first recall the way in which the laws regarding menstruation and childbirth and this new circumcision appeared at the same time in the history of the Jewish people , and remember what was earlier said about the nature — culture dichotomy and the need of culture to control or impose itself upon what it deems to be nature .
21 Prost , who appeared at the same conference , said : ‘ I made my apologies to the world council .
22 The horses , of which four of the original six appeared at the 1816 exhibition , were described as ‘ stout Normans , dark brown in colour and … very fleet and hardy . ’
23 I enclose a photograph of the display as it appeared at the National Library of Scotland ; obviously the cases are not part of the touring display .
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