Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb past] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upon recovery from the overdose , Charles said he had not cared whether he lived or died at the time of taking the tablets , but wanted to show Ann how desperate he was feeling . |
| 2 | He stopped walking and looked at the scrubland now directly in front of them . |
| 3 | A young man with a bad case of acne approached and pointed at the phone . |
| 4 | They hooted and waved at the boats as they whizzed by . |
| 5 | The fear of future unemployment , he believed , was exaggerated and existed at the moment " as a heavy legacy of dictatorship " . |
| 6 | John slowly rose and sat at the table where he was soon joined by the two women . |
| 7 | Ken Turk , the 67-year-old president and long time player for Hampshire club Hartley Wintney , collapsed and died at the wicket immediately after hitting a six against Shepherd 's Bush on May 3 . |
| 8 | A sixteen year old girl collapsed and died at the Hacienda in Manchester after ‘ dropping an E ’ . |
| 9 | He knew that she stopped and stared at the sea or the sky far too much these days . |
| 10 | It was a very nice day out actually , and everything from serious riders who just went up and down and the most energetic one did a hundred miles , to families who treated it , took a picnic and stopped and looked at the badger tunnels . |
| 11 | She stopped and looked at the garden ; inside the square was a circle of flower beds . |
| 12 | She stopped and blushed at the stupidity of the question , adding quickly , ‘ You work here in the village , of course . ‘ |
| 13 | Then he stopped and bowed at the waist . |
| 14 | Old Ranza , a very large and mostly white collie , sighed by her chair as she hummed and hawed at the cottage sketch . |
| 15 | I changed and bathed at the tavern where my master was staying in Great Mary Axe Street near Bishopsgate . |
| 16 | Trent surfaced and yelled at the men in the cockpit to swim a lifejacket out to him . |
| 17 | So I expect to see er improvements in confidence backed by greater provision and I like to see that directed at the venture capital , risk capital , long term capital . |
| 18 | But none of these incidents could possibly have matched that witnessed at a masquerade organized by Lord Tylney at Wanstead House , Essex , in 1768 , as recorded by an Italian noblewoman staying with the Tylneys at the time . |
| 19 | Only one configuration , however , matched that found at the murder scene . |
| 20 | MacDiarmid waved him forward with a commanding sweep of his arm and he came and sat at the end of the table . |
| 21 | Both places had latches and as long as I got ten yards ' start on him , I could slam the door shut and slip my half clothes-peg under the latch — I always carried a half clothes-peg for the purpose — and no matter how much he blasphemed and kicked at the door he could n't get in . |
| 22 | As a leading historian of medieval technology has remarked , ‘ No European community felt able to hold up its head unless in its midst the planets wheeled in cycles and epicycles , whilst angels trumpeted and countermarched at the booming of the hours . ’ |
| 23 | Benjamin stirred and shouted at the slattern to bring a toothpick . |
| 24 | Corbett and Ranulf , riding abreast , stopped and gazed at the chaos . |
| 25 | Her thoughts gathered and broke at the memory . |
| 26 | A crowd gathered and shouted at the police , provoking another baton charge which forced them down towards Butcher Gate and the Bogside . |
| 27 | In an extract from the introduction to the Birds of Australia , Gould describes the fate that befell these two men who lived and died at the mercy of the violent and contrary Australian climate : |
| 28 | Monica asked and looked at the wall map of the continent . |
| 29 | Her hair had been plaited and coiled at the back of her head , but there was no mistaking her for Han . |
| 30 | The Echo recently featured an article about a young man who was mugged and robbed at the entrance to Everton Park on Netherfield Road . |