Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 2 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 3 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 4 | The ducks gazed thoughtfully at the sky and flapped their wings , but not so much as a peep was uttered by any of them . |
| 5 | Ingrid Heseltine , an EC civil servant , found the vacancies tucked away at the back of Euro documents , printed in French . |
| 6 | Do n't these people realise that dozens of reviewers are likely to spend several hours gazing blankly at the album sleeve as they try to come up with some natty simile to describe the musical contents therein ? |
| 7 | All the pubs and clubs empty out at the same time . |
| 8 | Iain looked up when Andrew came in but quickly returned his attention to the screen when he heard the volley of shots and his lips parted slightly at the crescendo of violence and glamour . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's my fault , ’ he said later when she was sitting up , her eyes gazing blankly at the opposite wall . |
| 10 | Her words tailed off at the expression in his eyes . |
| 11 | BBC English plans a revised edition of the BBC English Dictionary every year but first the paperback edition ( itself revised ) , appears this month with the encyclopedic entries listed separately at the back . |
| 12 | His eyes narrowed dangerously at the undisguised sarcasm in her voice |
| 13 | His lips sucked eagerly at the golden liquid . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 15 | At the top a glass cocktail bar slowly revolved , and drinkers exclaimed gaily at the changing spectacle of industrial buildings under construction . |
| 16 | A man who was vaguely familiar was seated at the desk , his hair was grey and his eyes peered short-sightedly at the books before him . |
| 17 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 18 | Could I just ask you , did those bodices do up at the back with hooks and eyes ? |
| 19 | What do the journalists type on at the Post ? ’ |
| 20 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 21 | Once you have all your lists of goals written somewhere at the front of your diary , you are ready to start . |
| 22 | The young boy still stood like a soldier , holding the reins of the horses , his eyes looking eagerly at the piles of steaming dung obligingly dropped by both Philomel and Cranston 's mount . |
| 23 | Professor Connor , in a fascinating paper on computers in classical studies , claims that computers came just at the wrong time , at a time when scholar 's interests were moving from textual studies to critical theory , women 's studies and the like . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She pulled off her clothes and left them in a heap , then lay on top of the covers looking up at the ceiling . |
| 26 | He also urged them to remember Tory supporters living overseas at the next election . |
| 27 | Folly 's eyes jerked upwards at the hoarse whisper to see her escort being greeted by a plumpish middle-aged woman with steel-grey hair and a worried expression . |
| 28 | Peter Suvarov smiled , his eyes crinkling up at the corners and his bitter mouth relaxing , and handed her a handkerchief . |
| 29 | The dog , after lapping a little water , went and sat down heavily beside him , eyes turned up at the portrait of itself thoughtfully , perhaps making a critical assessment of it . |
| 30 | Nor is it simply a matter of politics that most of the democratic dissident-led parties fared poorly at the polls . |