Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners . |
| 2 | Silver-gilt hair flowed behind her , clear eyes looked out at the world and her fresh skin was tinted with delicate colour . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So many times held up at the Falcon Gate , so many times made to open his briefcase and his empty sandwich box and turn his empty coffee flask upside down when he was anxious to get home , so many times subjected to their questions when he was going about his business visiting other corners of the Establishment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Even if Fiver 's wrong and nothing terrible hits happened back at the old warren , I 'd still say we 're better off here . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | That afternoon two more carcasses turned up at the northern end of Butterwick Low , and another two were reported from the Norfolk coast , close to Cromer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His small elbows stuck out at the sides as he cut and ate food in a frenzy . |
| 14 | But she seemed unaware of it as her green eyes glared back at the man who had struck her . |
| 15 | And from the depths of the pool little yellow frogs stared up at the nomes . |
| 16 | Even in that jungly light I see something does n't add up : can a corpse have half a nose and two fingers busted off at the first joint ? |
| 17 | Two riders turned in at the approach to the castle , the rest of the cavalcade swept onward through the gate , flung open to give them passage , and vanished in a flurry of spume and fine mud along the foregate . |
| 18 | Her wide blue eyes swept up at the waiter as if considering him . |
| 19 | The two directors looked up at the top of the Opera House . |
| 20 | The herb beds should be lightly dug over with a fork , weeded if necessary , and the invasive plants chopped back at the roots . |
| 21 | Outside two young men peered in at the lighted women with their bottles and Jonquil 's cans of Carlsberg . |
| 22 | Nearly 200 vehicles pulled up at the roadside on the A38 just south of Gloucester . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Half an hour before the match started two tractors pulled up at the swing bridge , the drivers got out and had a short discussion and proceeded to plough up the field opposite my peg . |
| 25 | Over to the west , the allied fires petered out at the same point ; yet Thiercelin fancied he could hear the rumble of distant movement . |
| 26 | The Literary Lionisers gazed up at the most splendid Norman keep in England . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | About 20 travellers turned up at the court as one of their group , Gary Frost , 28 , father of a year-old daughter , was due to appear from custody . |
| 29 | Both men sat down at the table . |
| 30 | Only six out of the school 's 260 pupils turned up at the school , and four of them were later picked up by their parents and returned home . |