Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upon recovery from the overdose , Charles said he had not cared whether he lived or died at the time of taking the tablets , but wanted to show Ann how desperate he was feeling . |
| 2 | He stopped walking and looked at the scrubland now directly in front of them . |
| 3 | A young man with a bad case of acne approached and pointed at the phone . |
| 4 | A lecturer visiting a student on teaching practice tells of being mistaken for a parent and being kept standing in a cold corridor while behind a closed door the head shouted and screamed at a tearful child . |
| 5 | They hooted and waved at the boats as they whizzed by . |
| 6 | The fear of future unemployment , he believed , was exaggerated and existed at the moment " as a heavy legacy of dictatorship " . |
| 7 | John slowly rose and sat at the table where he was soon joined by the two women . |
| 8 | A sixteen year old girl collapsed and died at the Hacienda in Manchester after ‘ dropping an E ’ . |
| 9 | Ken Turk , the 67-year-old president and long time player for Hampshire club Hartley Wintney , collapsed and died at the wicket immediately after hitting a six against Shepherd 's Bush on May 3 . |
| 10 | He knew that she stopped and stared at the sea or the sky far too much these days . |
| 11 | As Charlie approached the Whitechapel Road , he stopped and stared at the frantic bustle taking place all around him . |
| 12 | Agrippa stopped and looked at a lonely bird shrieking above us as if it was a devil let loose to wander this lonely wilderness . |
| 13 | She stopped and looked at the garden ; inside the square was a circle of flower beds . |
| 14 | She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence . |
| 15 | I stopped and looked at the big house . |
| 16 | It was a very nice day out actually , and everything from serious riders who just went up and down and the most energetic one did a hundred miles , to families who treated it , took a picnic and stopped and looked at the badger tunnels . |
| 17 | She stopped and blushed at the stupidity of the question , adding quickly , ‘ You work here in the village , of course . ‘ |
| 18 | Then he stopped and bowed at the waist . |
| 19 | They stopped and wondered at the crude little pageant parked outside the cottage , stroking its paintwork and prying into the winches and traps . |
| 20 | Old Ranza , a very large and mostly white collie , sighed by her chair as she hummed and hawed at the cottage sketch . |
| 21 | I changed and bathed at the tavern where my master was staying in Great Mary Axe Street near Bishopsgate . |
| 22 | When she had the hackles high on her shoulders , when she whined and scratched at the back door , then the house was watched . |
| 23 | Trent surfaced and yelled at the men in the cockpit to swim a lifejacket out to him . |
| 24 | While in Amritsar he visited and prayed at the Golden Temple , Sikhism 's most hallowed shrine which had been the subject in 1984 of an Army assault [ see pp. 33223-24 ] , in a gesture of reconciliation . |
| 25 | So I expect to see er improvements in confidence backed by greater provision and I like to see that directed at the venture capital , risk capital , long term capital . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Only one configuration , however , matched that found at the murder scene . |
| 28 | Managers came and went at an alarming rate ; there was Board Room take-over ; gates began to dwindle and the Palace were candidates for relegation from well before Christmas . |
| 29 | MacDiarmid waved him forward with a commanding sweep of his arm and he came and sat at the end of the table . |
| 30 | Modigliani , of course , spotted her at once and came and sat at the next table . |