Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were large animals that lived at the same time as the forerunners of the dinosaurs , the petrolacosaurs . |
| 2 | His strong face , lined by age and illness , framed a pair of kindly eyes that softened at the sight of her . |
| 3 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
| 4 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 5 | He opened his eyes and glanced at the clock beside his bed . |
| 6 | Frankie narrowed his eyes and squinted at the bloody object lying between her powerful front paws . |
| 7 | Ronni opened her eyes and stared at the moon , feeling her poor heart quiver inside her . |
| 8 | He narrowed his eyes and stared at the distant wall of the Tower . |
| 9 | Nell raised her eyes and looked at the rest of the body ; and caught her breath . |
| 10 | She shut her eyes and tugged at the rope , sending the boat soaring high up over the scruffy , stinking little fair and the bare-headed people and the wide , comfortable , pleasure-loving river . |
| 11 | Ronni looked into his eyes and smiled at the compliment , inwardly shuddering as he took her in his arms and proceeded to lead her in time to the music . |
| 12 | He went and got his overcoat and put it on over his pyjamas and sat at the table smoking a cigarette . |
| 13 | He put a supporting arm round Farquhar 's shoulders and grinned at the men rowing only hard enough to hold the ship steady . |
| 14 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 15 | Wycliffe walked to work with a salty taste on his lips and arrived at the Incident Room as the little printer was opening up . |
| 16 | I thought that maybe Elsie went under finally sickened and stifled by the righteous attitudes that prevailed at the time . |
| 17 | The amount of surplus ACT included in the claim must be capable of being determined by reference to circumstances that existed at the time of the claim ( see Proctor & Gamble Ltd v Taylerson ( 1990 ) STC 624 ) . |
| 18 | Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other . |
| 19 | He blew out his fat , purpled cheeks , dug his hands deep in his breeches pockets and looked at the sky with a martyred air . |
| 20 | She tucked her hands under her armpits and stared at the ground . |
| 21 | Now , we 've used this technique in invasive bladder cancer , and we 've quantified the micro-vascularity in a group of invasive cancers and looked at the prognosis and metastasis . |
| 22 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 23 | Victoria , oddly quenched , sat at Aunt Margaret 's feet and gazed at the shifting patterns in the fire , singing to herself a wordless , keening song . |
| 24 | She immediately sprang to her feet and shouted at the top of her voice : ‘ HEY HAL . |
| 25 | She prowled among the desks and glowered at the action boards as if they were a bunch of football hooligans . |
| 26 | The sergeant bumped over the sleeping-policemen and gazed at the neatly trimmed lawns and hedges with aggrieved jealousy in his eyes : the private estate was a symbol of a world from which he was excluded , a world of privilege and snobbery , a world that had turned its back on the poor , the sick and the unfashionable who had been swarming round their car only ten minutes before . |
| 27 | As he headed for the sanctuary of the dressing-room , accompanied by armed soldiers , the home fans spat , threw coins and jeered at the tiny Scot . |
| 28 | ‘ No , ’ he answered , and he picked at one of the nails on his fingers and stared at the floorboards wishing he could disappear into them . |
| 29 | We ran into the warm waves like little children , and swam and did duck dives and looked at the strangely corrugated sand under the water , and kept an eye open for jellyfish and pointed shells and silver fishes in the groves of coral that cropped up here and there along the sea bed . |
| 30 | Athelstan ground his teeth and glared at the coroner but Sir John smiled sweetly back as if innocent of any devious stratagem . |