Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [conj] [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | She fetched antiseptic and some cotton wool , then bent towards him and dabbed at the place , a pose that brought their heads close together . |
2 | He had moved past her and stood at the foot of a soaring staircase , hands on his hips . |
3 | But the rest of his appeal was lost as Erika pushed past him and stood at the end of the bus , well aware that Paul would rather postpone his appeal than stand the two slow lurching miles to the club . |
4 | She sat down in front of it and looked at the half-page she had typed that morning . |
5 | There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot . |
6 | She sat on the corner of the old sofa with her legs folded under her and stared at the window , willing the oil lamp not to sputter and distort the sounds that belonged to the night : the true night that lay outside in the garden and the valley and held dominion over the hills . |
7 | She took it from him and sipped at the sweet sherry , reminded by its taste that he bought it specially because she did n't like sweet sherry . |
8 | Dada took the book from her and looked at the first page . |
9 | I may even have just called for him and stood at the door . |
10 | I held my ticket tightly to me and smiled at the thought . |
11 | I lay in the bed beside him and stared at the ceiling . |
12 | Springing up , he took two steps across to it and peered at the glazed array of schoolboy faces . |
13 | Bill Hamilton smiled across the room at her and pointed at a side table where drinks and appetising titbits were laid out . |
14 | He moved between us and looked at the bowls of deep colour , and little puffs of red and yellow dotted about the draining-board to dry . |