Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that elephants existed at that time in the extreme south of China , but the fact that Fu Hao 's cup was studded with turquoise points to India as a possible source . |
| 2 | Dalziel and Pascoe looked at each other for a long moment after the door had slammed behind Evans . |
| 3 | ‘ Can I … go for a walk in the garden while I think it over ? ’ she blurted , and brother and sister looked at each other . |
| 4 | When he came to Noreen , Paddy stopped , and brother and sister stared at each other . |
| 5 | Algernon and Heinrich glanced at each other . |
| 6 | And she and Marie smiled at each other , like conspirators . |
| 7 | He and Branson looked at each other with the candour of two people who know they are utterly different , but for one shared resolution . |
| 8 | Juliet and David looked at each other . |
| 9 | He and Valerie looked at each other as cordially as two people who loathe each other can . |
| 10 | Jenny and Antony looked at each other , brown eyes unblinkingly fixed on blue , over the rims of their upraised pint pots . |
| 11 | Jenny and Antony looked at each other dubiously . |
| 12 | But between 1850 and 1890 even Austro-Hungary , Norway and Ireland urbanised at this rate , Belgium and the United States at between 0.30 and 0.40 , Prussia , Australia and Argentina at between 0.40 and 0.50 , England and Wales ( still leading by a short head ) and Saxony at over 0.50 per annum . |
| 13 | Fand and Liban stood at either side of the door , more stiff and still than ever . |
| 14 | His voice was low and softly timbred and Ruth wondered at such cruelty . |
| 15 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 16 | " When he went upstairs to change for dinner , Lady Agatha and Fidelma looked at each other . " |
| 17 | Mary and Reggie looked at each other , at her , and went hastily into their bedroom . |
| 18 | Karr and Chen looked at each other , some sign of understanding passing between them , then Karr looked back at Haavikko . |
| 19 | From the later 1830s the rulers of Prussia and Russia maintained at each other 's courts military plenipotentiaries , high-ranking officers whose role in relations between the two monarchs was often more important than that of any diplomat . |
| 20 | ‘ My own family was pretty undistinguished , and Stephen had at any rate a respectable reputation in his own field — though I probably overvalued it at the time . |
| 21 | Mahmoud and Owen looked at each other , then with one accord started walking . |
| 22 | Husband and wife looked at each other , then the wife said , ‘ Our daughter is handicapped . |
| 23 | Sam and Rose looked at each other and at the dark , empty square . |
| 24 | Sam and Rose mouthed at each other : ‘ Candle by the bed , ’ and nodded . |
| 25 | Ace and Daak looked at each other . |
| 26 | Paul and Nasey looked at each other with widened eyes . |
| 27 | Child and woman looked at each other with the same wonder and wariness , attracted and afraid . |
| 28 | My mother and father looked at each other . |
| 29 | The Captain and Bacci looked at each other through the communicating door . |
| 30 | Hope and Mary looked at each other in astonishment but , determined to humour the old gentleman , they said nothing . |