Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [conj] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | But her weeping window sill sheds tears of condensation , scarring the wall down to the carpet which has curled and crumbled at the edge . |
2 | He who has yawned and smirked at every politician in the land — surely he could manage something more original than a couple of funny faces ? |
3 | She has watched and sighed at the conveyor belt of busted rackets and aspirations — as successive decades of dewy-eyed schoolgirls have emerged from the manicured suburban court retreats in the romantic search for more than strawberries at Wimbledon . |
4 | She has watched and sighed at the conveyor belt of busted rackets and aspirations — as successive decades of dewy-eyed schoolgirls have emerged from the manicured suburban court retreats in the romantic search for more than strawberries at Wimbledon . |
5 | He 'd worked and taught at the Magic Theater in San Francisco ; had therapy at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur with Fritz Perls ; worked in New York with Chaikin and La Mama . |
6 | But none of these incidents could possibly have matched that witnessed at a masquerade organized by Lord Tylney at Wanstead House , Essex , in 1768 , as recorded by an Italian noblewoman staying with the Tylneys at the time . |
7 | Which would be as good a way as any for me to get Rainbow off the premises , before those inhibitions of hers — which I 've left bound and gagged at the back of her wardrobe — work their knots out and come riding to the rescue . |
8 | Well , they had hardly brought her up a tea-tray ( with the most delicious things to eat ) when she was told that there was someone downstairs to see her : it turned out that most of the young men , her one-time tutors , were dons now or curators or secretaries to cabinet ministers and apparently asking for nothing better than to take her about , and there were Anna 's English friends , all those people who had dined or wintered at the palazzo . |
9 | He looked at her derisively and left her to it , drinking the coffee he had made and sitting at the table . |
10 | In every case , the purchaser had visited and stayed at the site before buying . |
11 | I believe that she had , as she said , seen every point that I had wished to make , and had laughed and cried at the right places . |
12 | For a moment , the Doctor toyed lightly with the simularity crystal he had found while looking at the blood on the floor . |
13 | ‘ No , your Grace , for when he mustered what force he had left and drove at the Welsh knights , he could both ride and fight , and so did , and well . |
14 | HIS mother and her boyfriend had rowed and split at the weekend . |