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Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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 found that gazing at the CO 's moustache helped .
3	The Frasque , that had seemed so desiccated and invulnerable , shrivelled and burned at the Capellans ' slightest gesture .
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	It caught and twisted at the heart , and there was no armour against it .
6	They hooted and waved at the boats as they whizzed by .
7	John slowly rose and sat at the table where he was soon joined by the two women .
8	He knew that she stopped and stared at the sea or the sky far too much these days .
9	As Charlie approached the Whitechapel Road , he stopped and stared at the frantic bustle taking place all around him .
10	Agrippa stopped and looked at a lonely bird shrieking above us as if it was a devil let loose to wander this lonely wilderness .
11	She stopped and looked at the garden ; inside the square was a circle of flower beds .
12	She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence .
13	I stopped and looked at the big house .
14	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 .
15	She stopped and blushed at the stupidity of the question , adding quickly , ‘ You work here in the village , of course . ‘
16	Then he stopped and bowed at the waist .
17	They stopped and wondered at the crude little pageant parked outside the cottage , stroking its paintwork and prying into the winches and traps .
18	Old Ranza , a very large and mostly white collie , sighed by her chair as she hummed and hawed at the cottage sketch .
19	This was foreseen by the local residents who objected and petitioned at the time planning permission was under consideration .
20	I changed and bathed at the tavern where my master was staying in Great Mary Axe Street near Bishopsgate .
21	Poor Kodiak whined and scratched at the verandah door as we drove off .
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	When he realised that arriving at The Bar meant he was still only just at the start of his wanderings or journey , he ached some nights to be told that he need go no farther than this .
26	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 .
27	MacDiarmid waved him forward with a commanding sweep of his arm and he came and sat at the end of the table .
28	Modigliani , of course , spotted her at once and came and sat at the next table .
29	Both places had latches and as long as I got ten yards ' start on him , I could slam the door shut and slip my half clothes-peg under the latch — I always carried a half clothes-peg for the purpose — and no matter how much he blasphemed and kicked at the door he could n't get in .
30	As a leading historian of medieval technology has remarked , ‘ No European community felt able to hold up its head unless in its midst the planets wheeled in cycles and epicycles , whilst angels trumpeted and countermarched at the booming of the hours . ’