Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silver-gilt hair flowed behind her , clear eyes looked out at the world and her fresh skin was tinted with delicate colour . |
| 2 | According to the foreign journalists camped out at the Intercontinental Hotel for weeks hoping for a simple soundbite from El Presidente , he was not seeing anyone . |
| 3 | Philip of Valois 's claim , however , had the virtues of clarity and logic , whereas Edward 's claim , as French lawyers pointed out at the time and French historians have not hesitated to remark since , rested on the unsatisfactory assumption that a woman could transmit a right which she could not exercise . |
| 4 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 5 | One of soccer 's great trouble-shooters clocked in at the Cadbury 's chocolate factory where Rovers train but the last thing that greeted him was the sweet smell of success . |
| 6 | I saw Sybil on ‘ Top of the Pops ’ the day before I started work on the book and she was wearing a gold bra top , huge fake-gold earrings and black trousers pulled in at the waist . |
| 7 | Even if Fiver 's wrong and nothing terrible hits happened back at the old warren , I 'd still say we 're better off here . |
| 8 | A specimen fixed 24h after wounding , showing the large concentration of F-actin in the epidermal cells piled up at the site of wound closure ( see also Fig. 1 f ) . |
| 9 | But now … hands and handkerchiefs and newspapers waved from every window of the train , and smiling faces looked up at the children on the fence . |
| 10 | His small elbows stuck out at the sides as he cut and ate food in a frenzy . |
| 11 | But she seemed unaware of it as her green eyes glared back at the man who had struck her . |
| 12 | And from the depths of the pool little yellow frogs stared up at the nomes . |
| 13 | Her wide blue eyes swept up at the waiter as if considering him . |
| 14 | The herb beds should be lightly dug over with a fork , weeded if necessary , and the invasive plants chopped back at the roots . |
| 15 | Outside two young men peered in at the lighted women with their bottles and Jonquil 's cans of Carlsberg . |
| 16 | THE subject of minimum wages came up at The Northern/KPMG Peat Marwick Business Briefing when Sir Ian Wrigglesworth ( CBI , Lib-Dem , ex-Labour ) was the guest speaker . |
| 17 | Over to the west , the allied fires petered out at the same point ; yet Thiercelin fancied he could hear the rumble of distant movement . |
| 18 | The Literary Lionisers gazed up at the most splendid Norman keep in England . |
| 19 | Even after the Union of the Crowns there remained a long period during which old traditions and suspicions simmered uneasily , and old local enmities flared up at the slightest provocation . |