Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [art] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ?
2 Under Theory X motivation occurs only at the physiological and security levels of Maslow 's hierarchy .
3 When he had finished speaking the Collector hesitated for a moment on the stairs , looking down at the tired and gaunt faces below him .
4 Looking down at the black and white collie which crouched at his feet , he added , ‘ It 'll be all right , will it , ti bring my own dog ?
5 To control for age when assessing the effect of being rich on preparedness to break the law , for example , we look separately at the young and the old .
6 To control for wealth when assessing the effect of age on preparedness to break the law , we look separately at the rich and poor .
7 Her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body .
8 Rex glanced down at the billfold and then back to the screen .
9 Judith glanced up at the blue and white JNF money-box , with the map of Palestine embossed on its face , standing on the mantelpiece next to Molly 's letter .
10 Roosevelt 's ‘ fireside ’ chats to the American people had already demonstrated that broadcasting as a persuasive agent worked best at a quiet and confidential level of address .
11 Brought up at a cultivated and tolerant court and doted on as an only child , she became a catch on the German dynastic marriage market .
12 He looked pointedly at the solitary and tarnished crown on Woolley 's shoulder .
13 She looked down at the undersized and ill-clothed child , and was warmed by an ache of loving despair .
14 Morse looked at her : looked at the piled-up hair above her wistful face ; looked down at the full and observably bra-less bosom ; looked down at the taut stretch of black stocking between the knee and the thigh of her crossed right leg .
15 Mesmerised by the heat rising from the hard earth and stones of the road , she looked numbly at the blue and white chipped plates .
16 Artemis curtsied again , and then stared up at the beautiful and elegant woman .
17 He stared up at the taped and blackened windows passing slowly on either side .
18 Maurice looked around at the shabby and slightly absurd incongruities of the room .
19 The research will operate both at the national and local level .
20 The Japanese unzipped the foot of the mainsail so that the boom was loaded only at the inboard and outboard ends .
21 American and allied aircraft are already pounding away at the fixed and mobile missile launchers concealed in the desert of south-western Iraq .
22 For Whitehouse , Neville 's avowed ‘ revolutionary ’ stance was aimed particularly at the young and innocent and was a form of ‘ ideological warfare ’ from which they needed to be protected .
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