Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her words tailed off at the expression in his eyes . |
| 2 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The marquis 's lips turned down at the corners . |
| 7 | Ajayi looked up at the door to the winding-stair expecting to see an attendant , but the voice had come from behind her , and she could see Quiss 's face starting to turn red , his eyes widening , the lines around them spreading out further . |
| 8 | PARISHIONERS and clergy looked back at the past year on Sunday when Headley 's annual vestry and parish meetings were held at the Church Centre . |
| 9 | And from the depths of the pool little yellow frogs stared up at the nomes . |
| 10 | Silver-gilt hair flowed behind her , clear eyes looked out at the world and her fresh skin was tinted with delicate colour . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | But she seemed unaware of it as her green eyes glared back at the man who had struck her . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Her wide blue eyes swept up at the waiter as if considering him . |
| 15 | The Literary Lionisers gazed up at the most splendid Norman keep in England . |
| 16 | The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years . |
| 17 | The goal though , was against the run of play and sure enough , Rovers came back at the start of the second half with an equaliser from Kenny Irons . |
| 18 | A stream of visitors turned up at the camp . |
| 19 | Then on Wednesday , hearses from two funeral companies turned up at the morgue to claim the body . |
| 20 | The two directors looked up at the top of the Opera House . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Women with stiff-brimmed panama hats turned up at the side and pinned with giant rosettes . |
| 23 | She remembered one of the ideas chucked around at the brainstorming session a week ago : a series on Eligible Males . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They are much easier to fit earlier than later ; wires can be more easily concealed and circuits worked out at the start of kitchen planning . |
| 26 | The doves flew in at the mouths and made their nests inside . |
| 27 | For example , when troubles blew up at the Heath Town Estate in the Midlands they were immediately compared with Broadwater Farm and the place labelled a ghetto in the way the media treated the incident . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Even the men cleaning their weapons looked up at the mention of the name . |
| 30 | A lack of narrative drive leaves the reader with piecemeal vignettes , an impression confirmed by the poems tacked on at the end of the book . |