Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pos pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proctologist hooted at his own wit before asking which of my father 's famous wives was my mother . |
| 2 | Antonio roared at his own humour , joined by Christina and Stephen , while his wife stood silent . |
| 3 | She lay beneath him , shy again , amazed at her own feelings . |
| 4 | ‘ But I think of you as a creative writer , ’ he hazarded at last , amazed at his own effrontery . |
| 5 | Ludens , amazed at his own emotion , found he was kneeling on one knee . |
| 6 | As Jenna stepped out of the car there was only silence and she frowned at her own stupidity . |
| 7 | When she arrived at her own gate , she saw a large black Mercedes motor-car parked outside . |
| 8 | She was gone before they could utter a sound and arrived at her own room grinning widely , pleased with herself and only a little upset that Felipe was with that woman . |
| 9 | Tottenham fans are still waiting to see the England Under-21 international produce the scintillating form that he displayed at his former club Portsmouth . |
| 10 | Coleridge , still lame , chafed at his own confinement , especially when his friends set off one evening towards the hills , leaving him useless and lonely in Tom Poole 's garden arbour . |
| 11 | I shouted goodbye and soon followed at my own pace , leaving the sacred hitching post of the sun in the custody of two girls , a man lying on his back in the grass , the gaseosa-selling woman and a tethered goat . |
| 12 | She glanced at her own reflection in the mirror and the answer came with the suddenness of a hammer blow . |
| 13 | Alice glanced at her own hands , small , neat , the nails immaculately well maintained , and covered with a transparent varnish to protect them from the world . |
| 14 | The mercenary looked them up and down once again , saw the almost joyful light in Isay 's eyes , and then glanced at his own men behind him . |
| 15 | As she stared entranced at her own image , Folly felt a warming in her cheeks , and watched as a flush spread down from face to neck to breasts , dying the tender peaks a deeper hue . |
| 16 | ‘ When I 've thought about it , ’ Maggie mused , surprised at her own reluctance . |
| 17 | Anyone who came back covered with mud after an evening with Jenny Connon had some answering to do , Pascoe had decided , surprised at his own concern . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , it 's my bloody sturgeon , ’ said Lofty , surprised at his own courage . |
| 19 | She stopped and stared at her own face in the mirror . |
| 20 | She sat down before the dressing-table , automatically picking up a hairbrush , but the sight of her own reflection in the mirror distracted her , and for long moments she simply stared at her own face , as if seeing it through the eyes of a stranger . |
| 21 | Even in the dismal gloom , strobed by laser flashes , the boy 's green eyes gleamed with evident intelligence … and with fierce enmity … and with a kind of fascination , as he weighed the mask in his hand and stared at its former wearer , now revealed . |
| 22 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 23 | Claudia laughed at her own fears ; she was quite safe with Roman — from the sea , anyway . |
| 24 | She laughed at her own silliness . |
| 25 | She laughed at her own joke . |
| 26 | She laughed at her own image . |
| 27 | He laughed at his own pleasantry . |
| 28 | He laughed at his own naïvety , his gullibility . |
| 29 | He laughed at his own wit . |
| 30 | It had been a fanciful idea , flying out of there , and he laughed at his own foolishness . |