Example sentences of "[pron] and [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Friar Tuck stirred himself and stared at the Trapper . |
2 | Come down with me and dance at the Casablanca Club . |
3 | I drafted a statement for the trade union , detailing the nature of their support for me and hinting at a readiness to take further action were the matter not resolved in days . |
4 | If Agrippa gave an order they obeyed with alacrity , but sometimes I caught them watching me and shuddered at the amusement in their icy , pale-blue eyes . |
5 | I held my ticket tightly to me and smiled at the thought . |
6 | ‘ And a gardener-handyman , ’ said Charlotte , her eyes following the vigorous heave and surge of the mole-brown water as it tore down past them and ripped at the curve of the bank , lipping half across the trodden right of way . |
7 | Perhaps your secretary or some other intelligent person can sit alongside you and jot down , unobtrusively , the main points made by other speakers and indicate who is speaking so that you can look at them and glance at the notes alternately . |
8 | There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot . |
9 | ‘ I recall the under-21 team finding Scott Booth , from Aberdeen , in an emergency like this one and look at the player he turned out to be , ’ said Brown . |
10 | She braced herself and gazed at the compass , silently begging the needle to stop wavering to and fro . |
11 | ‘ Look , ’ she said , thrusting the book at him and pointing at the entry . |
12 | ‘ Better than your eyesight , ’ said the old woman , standing next to him and looking at the grey in his hair . |
13 | He took the seat to which Carson had gestured him and glanced at the message slip . |
14 | If not , she will pretend to look straight through him and pick at a plant leaf hoping he will go away . |
15 | I lay in the bed beside him and stared at the ceiling . |
16 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |
17 | She fetched antiseptic and some cotton wool , then bent towards him and dabbed at the place , a pose that brought their heads close together . |
18 | Blake felt people gathering around him and staring at the warehouse now transformed into a burning pyre . |
19 | I may even have just called for him and stood at the door . |
20 | But the rest of his appeal was lost as Erika pushed past him and stood at the end of the bus , well aware that Paul would rather postpone his appeal than stand the two slow lurching miles to the club . |
21 | An arm was slipped under her shoulders , lifting her ; then something was wrapped round her and fastened at the throat . |
22 | She turned up the volume of the calypso tape Elaine had given her and sang at the top of her voice , thinking about whether to have a formal dinner party for the charity night , as Pauline suggested , or a more casual fancy-dress party on Halloween , which was what she would prefer . |
23 | She sat on the corner of the old sofa with her legs folded under her and stared at the window , willing the oil lamp not to sputter and distort the sounds that belonged to the night : the true night that lay outside in the garden and the valley and held dominion over the hills . |
24 | He had moved past her and stood at the foot of a soaring staircase , hands on his hips . |
25 | Bill Hamilton smiled across the room at her and pointed at a side table where drinks and appetising titbits were laid out . |
26 | He opened it and looked at the video tape cassette inside . |
27 | She sat down in front of it and looked at the half-page she had typed that morning . |
28 | The Aldershot method erm because it showing you how you broke that subject down allows you to erm introduce it expand on it and summarise at the end . |
29 | But I mean I think the feeling of the the miners were out for a year I mean time and time again I 've heard people say , Oh how d how do they do it and look at the money they 're sending us and look at what they 're doing for us and how ho . |
30 | He moved between us and looked at the bowls of deep colour , and little puffs of red and yellow dotted about the draining-board to dry . |