Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] at [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They held onto the rock and waved and shouted at the lighthouse as loud as they could . |
| 2 | Which in turn brings us to the most remarkable fact of all , namely that so far from corroborating the police 's recent claims , the witnesses they located and interviewed at the time signally failed to mention any suspicious behaviour whatsoever . |
| 3 | Four members of the sprint squad missed the bus and arrived at the stadium later than they should have for the morning heats . |
| 4 | But he only said , ‘ Will you join with us ? ’ and looked at the Oak very straightly . |
| 5 | He picked up the glass case and looked at the bird reflectively . |
| 6 | He stopped walking and looked at the scrubland now directly in front of them . |
| 7 | 604 this court was faced with the curious situation that by a series of decisions , each moving almost imperceptibly further forward than the last , it had created a rule of law for which , if one stood back and looked at the matter afresh , there was absolutely no justification . |
| 8 | Philip came away from the door and looked at the paper too . |
| 9 | He whipped at his horse with the reins and stared at the wood ahead , trying to drag it closer by sheer willpower . |
| 10 | She went home — alone — and sat in darkness staring at the blank face of the television until eleven , and then she went to bed and stared at the ceiling instead . |
| 11 | Horne heard a sound , jumped up in terror and stared at the apparition just next to the old wall . |
| 12 | She looked away and stared at the fire again . |
| 13 | 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 . |