Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her heart sank at the thoughts aroused by the sight of the romantic poet-painter , and Sam 's puppy eagerness to reach him . |
| 2 | Her mouth drooped at the corners . |
| 3 | The liftmaster looked at the others questioningly . |
| 4 | This study looked at the responses of more and less arithmetically-able pupils . |
| 5 | For instance , the West , Roy and Nichols study looked at the cases of men who had already been incarcerated in an institution for mentally ill offenders — they were not a random sample of even those few rapists who are convicted . |
| 6 | Another study looked at the consequences of family conflict and a ‘ new wave of teenage girls breaking away ’ ( Willans , 1976 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I only hope and pray it does n't do too much damage , ’ he said , and jumped as they all heard a high-pitched , deafening roar which shook the house , followed by the sound of wood splitting as the wind tore at the planks and ripped the front door off its hinges . |
| 8 | Then she had the severest strain put on the control of her newly awakened ear-boxing predilection when his mouth twitched at the corners and it seemed , for a moment , that her sarcasm had amused him . |
| 9 | As the train rocketed to Oxford , the Queen gazed at the floods just like her paid-up fellow-passengers . |
| 10 | Boy looked at the pictures of the moustached and uniformed characters with some relish ; but he could n't finish the text , and so missed the single paragraph that Mother had circled in black ink . |
| 11 | The boy stared at the notches and gnarls in the trunk of the oak , afraid to face the voice , terrified at the prospect of looking upon the Almighty . |
| 12 | An independent consultant looked at the studies for WEN and reported flaws and a lack of objectivity in the use of raw data , statistics and language , although Procter and Gamble has refuted these allegations . |
| 13 | Charlie Harris was a shrewd street-seller whose appearance and demeanour tugged at the heartstrings of the compassionate . |
| 14 | The Coroner looked at the police officers who sat just in front of the Foreign Office representatives . |
| 15 | Thunder grumbled somewhere in the sky again and rain hissed at the windows . |
| 16 | The room lurked at the edges of her vision — chintz , pictures of woodland or roses , that paperknife . |
| 17 | Nathan gave a brief shrug , and a wry , self-mocking smile flickered at the corners of his mouth . |
| 18 | The older policeman looked at the children , a question in his eyes . |
| 19 | A POLICEMAN beaten and stabbed to death when he was called to a disturbance died at the hands of a brutal generation with no concept of right or wrong , a close friend said at his funeral yesterday . |
| 20 | Alice watched while the White Rabbit looked at the names on his piece of paper . |
| 21 | Somebody crossed in from the right , Lukic blocked a shot from Sheron , but the ball fell at the feet of Flitcroft who could n't really miss . |
| 22 | The hint of a smile appeared at the corners of Buchanan 's mouth , a cynical smile . |
| 23 | A smile tugged at the corners of his mouth . |
| 24 | An odd smile tugged at the corners of his firm mouth . |
| 25 | Her heart leapt at the words , but she said , ‘ No , thank you — they can recover in their own good time . ’ |
| 26 | The plan for a six-week display in a buffet at Newcastle upon Tyne 's Central Station was derailed after a duty manager looked at the pictures by a French photographer at a preview . |
| 27 | The waitress looked at the marks on my face and at Stok 's uniform . |
| 28 | The woman looked at the graves as though she would like to open them . |
| 29 | The act of pulling the rickshaw tugged at the stitches in my armpit , the only reminder that I was a ‘ sick woman ’ ( God , but you 're a trooper ) , and the show went well . |
| 30 | The top section of the mast snapped at the crosstrees as if it were less substantial than a toothpick . |