Example sentences of "'s [noun] [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The marquis 's lips turned down at the corners . |
| 2 | ‘ One year ’ — Māilo 's eyes lit up at the memory — ‘ I sold so many musk pods at the Indian border that I could hardly walk back , my pockets were so weighted down with silver coins . ’ |
| 3 | McDunn 's mouth twists down at the edges ; he sucks through his teeth , and for some reason I feel encouraged . |
| 4 | Newspapers love a good disaster , and a wedding where the bridegroom 's trousers fell down at the altar would stand a far better chance of being reported than one that went without a hitch . |
| 5 | There is also a collection of Wycliff 's writings brought over at the time of England 's Queen Anne . |
| 6 | The warning occurred after Puddephat 's name came up at the inquest into the death of an attractive flame-haired student , Melanie Gandell . |
| 7 | Three minutes from the end Saints had the last word when Cherry 's powerful drive squirmed out of Marshall 's hands trickled in at the post . |
| 8 | He had , as Dalgliesh knew , grudgingly respected Kate 's ability to look down at the butchered bodies in St Matthew 's vestry and not be sick , but he had n't liked her the better for it . |
| 9 | After The Tyger 's Whelp put in at the harbour at Liamuiga , also known as Everhope , the winter after the Battle of Sloop 's Bight , the letter from the King in England to Kit was delivered to him on the verandah of the Great House at Belmont , by the captain , one Rowland Grasscocke , who was plying a regular trade between England , the West Coast of Africa and the Hesperidean chain . |
| 10 | There seemed to be a child 's face looking in at the window . |
| 11 | Sid 's face lit up at the sight of her . |