Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead . |
| 2 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 3 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 4 | Frankie narrowed his eyes and squinted at the bloody object lying between her powerful front paws . |
| 5 | He narrowed his eyes and stared at the distant wall of the Tower . |
| 6 | She slammed back the driving seat and looked at the unfamiliar dashboard with all its foreign signals . |
| 7 | I lay there on the couch and shuddered at the very thought . |
| 8 | One night , she got up and turned on the light and looked at the sweet , bland face of Jesus , the Light of the World , in the picture over the mantelpiece . |
| 9 | The Weasel stepped up to the horse and peered at the dishevelled figure . |
| 10 | In any case , most City people put politics to one side and looked at the nascent company as a simple business proposition . |
| 11 | ‘ Come and have a drink , ’ said Cormack , and they moved into the bar and sat at the fixed tables and watched the glasses slide from rim to rim . |
| 12 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 13 | Victoria , oddly quenched , sat at Aunt Margaret 's feet and gazed at the shifting patterns in the fire , singing to herself a wordless , keening song . |
| 14 | But regarding wages and hours they were all taken by the executive council and debated at the national joint committee with the employers . |
| 15 | Mike pushed the papers back across the desk and looked at the Old Man , who raised his eyebrows questioningly . |
| 16 | As he headed for the sanctuary of the dressing-room , accompanied by armed soldiers , the home fans spat , threw coins and jeered at the tiny Scot . |
| 17 | The bartender , squat and ugly with one white eye , wore an apron and soiled shirt and sat at a high stool reading a newspaper . |
| 18 | Less compromising are Brideshead-style ‘ bags ’ : cream-spotted navy , with an elasticated waist in Donna Karan 's DKNY collection ; navy silky viscose and cuffed at the 11-inch ankle in C'Est Comme Ca . |
| 19 | We turned on a pre-arranged course and climbed at a predetermined rate of feed per minute at a certain airspeed . |
| 20 | That someone reached the landing and appeared at the open door of the bedroom . |
| 21 | I felt at the torn threads in my blouse and looked at the grazed skin underneath and shuddered , but I was all right and so was the tree . |
| 22 | Cranston glanced at Athelstan out of the corner of his eye and smiled at the barbed reminder what was true of Fulke and others in the Tower was also true of his relationship with the Lady Maude . |
| 23 | Look at them — ’ The swan stretched a wing and pointed at the departing ducks . |
| 24 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 25 | The night wind whipped his grey cropped hair , bit at his ears and cheeks and clawed at the grey robe wrapped round his body . |
| 26 | The deepest area is a central depression some 2500km long and 1500km wide , surrounding the North Pole and oriented at a right angle to Greenland ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 27 | Five years ago , the cabinetmaker John Nethercott and his wife Annie stood in the drizzle and gazed at the leprous grey hulk of Upper House , Discoed . |
| 28 | An episode which attracted particular concern was a strike that occurred at an obscure photo-processing plant in North London , the Grunwick works . |
| 29 | He finally slumped against the nearest crate and stared at the dimpled area around the bung . |
| 30 | We left the Daro river next day and arrived at the Awash a fortnight later . |