Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv prt] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura gasped breathlessly as he raised his dark head , gazing fondly up at the man she loved so much . |
| 2 | Tristan made a noncommittal gesture and his brother sank wearily down at the table . |
| 3 | Willie hung on to Tom 's left trouser leg and peered gingerly round at the mare as they walked past it . |
| 4 | But when she brushed her hair out of her face and peered cautiously over at the bench Guy lay in the same position , completely unmoving . |
| 5 | He gestured feebly around at the hillside . |
| 6 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |
| 7 | He gestured angrily up at the litter bin . |
| 8 | He gestured inarticulately around at the spaceship and the Chelonians . |
| 9 | Within a moment of her arrival St Ives put on the rimless spectacles he detested , though usually he preferred to squint blindly down at the book rather than be seen in them . |
| 10 | She did n't find it , but buried right down at the bottom she did find a tape cassette in a box . |
| 11 | Perhaps I should take one of those … ’ added Meredith , going momentarily off at a tangent . |
| 12 | ‘ This is a pleasant room — very charming , ’ he murmured , clearly absorbed by his own inner thoughts as he glanced idly around at the cream carpet and the matching raw silk curtains edging the windows . |
| 13 | The friar glanced despondently down at the sand and gravel . |
| 14 | As she reached her father 's house she walked straight in at the gate , which she hardly bothered to open quietly , and flung the stone as hard as she could at the glass of the bedroom window . |
| 15 | Rodo glanced confusedly up at the ceiling , half expecting the roof to collapse in on him . |
| 16 | She came to a little patch of sand , the bottom of a miniature canyon , and on the far side of it there was a smooth grey rock , sliced neatly off at the top to make a platform . |
| 17 | We had been looking forward rather to this little drive between East and West Tarbert , but our greatest pleasure was when we stepped safely down at the pier where the little Islay steamer " Fingal " was waiting to carry us to this island of Jura . |
| 18 | Whereas the West Mainland never goes really up at the end of the sentence or at least not to the same extent . |
| 19 | Testing for 14 year olds has been almost as great a disaster : the first pilot scheme was abandoned halfway through at a cost of £8 million . |
| 20 | She sat for maybe ten minutes staring gloomily out at the rain , which gave no sign of abating , knowing her options were limited to a choice of one . |
| 21 | But when he looked up , the dwarf above him was standing , arms limp like a ragged doll , staring dully down at the crossbow bolt buried in his stomach . |
| 22 | A momentary disorientation took him when he found that not only could he not move , but that he was staring straight up at the sky , and there appeared to be no ground underneath him . |
| 23 | She gave an irritated sigh and flung herself back on the pillows , staring straight up at the ceiling . |
| 24 | Their horses were saddled and waiting , their farewells to the prior and brothers already made , and Hugh just reaching for his bridle , when Nicol came trudging sturdily in at the gatehouse , soiled and bruised and hoisting himself along on a staff he had cut for himself in the forest . |
| 25 | Instead of staring blankly out at the world , or nervously striking at the fence , as some of the eagles did , he trekked back and forth in a figure of eight over an area that was only one tiny part of his caged area . |
| 26 | To Ronni 's surprise , and apparently also to Guido 's , Silvia stared humbly down at the ground for a moment . |
| 27 | Gav stood by the hall table , shifting his weight from side to side and glancing nervously down at the phone now and again . |
| 28 | The owner 's wife looked nervously out at the throng from behind her lace curtains . |
| 29 | He stared grimly round at the crowd of silent watchers . |
| 30 | ‘ You walk to your London office in preference to using your car on your non-interviewing days ? ’ he enquired , and Fabia looked swiftly down at the carpet . |