Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fair-haired Jews from Moscow and Leningrad mingled with olive-skinned Georgians to read the Cyrillic slogans welcoming them and then sank down in rows of plastic chairs or gazed at the panoramic photograph of Jerusalem covering an entire wall . |
| 2 | Although these are sometimes slavishly historical , or played at a frenetic tempo ( as if over-eager to cast off the stately past ) , the benefits of such experiments are clear . |
| 3 | A major problem that arose at an early stage was the reconciliation of the local authority 's requirements for one car-parking space per flat with the DoE 's refusal to fund a scheme in which the entire ground floor would be used for parking . |
| 4 | For the sake of clarity , one possible solution is to provide that the SSAPs to be used are those that applied at a specified date even if changed subsequently between exchange and completion . |
| 5 | Grom 's tribe was the Broken Axe , a tribe of Goblins that lived at the eastern end of Mad Dog Pass . |
| 6 | Earlier , Tanjug 's correspondent reported from Bucharest that armoured vehicles ran over students , while police turned automatic gunfire on crowds chanting ‘ Down with Ceausescu ’ and ‘ Down with the killers ’ during demonstrations that erupted at the government-organised rally in support of President Ceausescu . |
| 7 | But all that changed at a phenomenal pace . |
| 8 | A Rose that faded at the rising Day , |
| 9 | Result : even worse defeat , culminating in the degradation of last year 's 60-pointer by Australia and the shenanigans that followed at the post-match dinner . |
| 10 | The fire was a mess of glowing embers that spat at the light rain . |
| 11 | Idly she unravelled the muddle of paths , wandering past low , stunted railings , and dwarf ‘ Keep off the grass ’ signs sprouting from the balding turf ; past desolate putting greens ; past tightly-shuttered refreshment kiosks ; past the narrow lanes marked ‘ Men ’ and Women' that commenced at a modest distance from each other and wound through dark shrubbery to merge in a single , dripping tomb , divided by a wall . |
| 12 | I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard . |
| 13 | When I made no response he turned and gazed at the far line of coral reef that was marked by a fret of white breaking water . |
| 14 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 15 | Nevertheless they mounted and rode at a good trot up the great road towards the north . |
| 16 | The deepest area is a central depression some 2500km long and 1500km wide , surrounding the North Pole and oriented at a right angle to Greenland ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 17 | She ran her lithe tongue over the helmet of his quivering rod , and sucked at the trembling shaft like an angel from heaven . |
| 18 | Springing up , he took two steps across to it and peered at the glazed array of schoolboy faces . |
| 19 | He tore open the cupboard door and peered at the tiny porthole of glass on the front of the central heating boiler . |
| 20 | He frowned deeply and peered at the narrow line of black and white spaces hanging in the air in front of him . |
| 21 | They both knelt on the carpet and peered at the large magazine , turning the pages . |
| 22 | The Weasel stepped up to the horse and peered at the dishevelled figure . |
| 23 | Finally the iron pin would be attached to the hinge fitting , pointed at the catch-plate and coiled at the other end to form a spring hinge . |
| 24 | The Archon ignored him , stood up and shouted at the disappearing figure . |
| 25 | He took the wheel after that and drove at a furious speed back to San José , where he turned right on to the Pan-Am . |
| 26 | He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead . |
| 27 | Turning to football , the West Indies have done nothing on an international scale , though the game is popular and played at a domestic level . |
| 28 | Frankie narrowed his eyes and squinted at the bloody object lying between her powerful front paws . |
| 29 | In 1984 , radio astronomers from Columbia University identified electro-magnetic vortices in our Milky Way and arrived at a similar conclusion to the theories of Alfven and Perratt . |
| 30 | She was kept in training as a five-year-old with her main target the Ascot Gold Cup , and arrived at the Royal meeting unbeaten in her two earlier races that season : never much of a betting proposition once her ability became apparent , Pretty Polly started at 1000–35 on in the March Stakes at Newmarket and at 11–2 on in the Coronation Cup at Epsom ( despite the presence in the latter of the 1904 Derby winner St Amant ) . |