Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Write your plans below and evaluate at the next C.P.S. |
| 2 | She hoisted the baby on to her hip and dragging a chair close up to the television set , sat down and stared at the blank screen . |
| 3 | She knelt down and stared at the smaller words below it . |
| 4 | Now he knelt down and looked at the dead girl curiously . |
| 5 | Remembering a detail with sudden clarity , Charles knelt down and looked at the left-hand side of the front bumper . |
| 6 | And the three lorries could back underneath and load and go down and tip at the Golden Wharf at Lyness . |
| 7 | He rolled over , and spread his loosened limbs in the bed , he opened windows , he went to the Tate Gallery alone and looked at the dissolving blue and gold air of Turner 's Norham Castle . |
| 8 | The two got together and announced at the 1989 Seybold conference that they were going to develop a clone of PostScript based on Bauer 's which would use Apple 's new fonts on both the Macintosh and under OS/2 . |
| 9 | In the case of the curious ‘ rodent-run ’ display , it is as if the bird is running away and hiding at the same time . |
| 10 | She turned over and looked at the illuminated dial of her alarm clock . |
| 11 | He walked over and rattled at the locked door . |
| 12 | Add the oil very carefully , drop by drop , beating in between each drop to avoid curdling until about a quarter has been added , then mix in the rest , pouring it in slowly and beating at the same time . |
| 13 | Corbett spun round quickly and stared at the cowled , shadowy figure before him . |
| 14 | The difference now , however , is that such arguments are multiplied many times over , both by the much more extensive use of technology and the great number of technological developments which appear so quickly and exist at the same time . |
| 15 | He frowned deeply and peered at the narrow line of black and white spaces hanging in the air in front of him . |
| 16 | He scrambled to his feet , throwing his cloak aside and hissing at the stiff pain of his collarbone . |
| 17 | Antony turned the grill off and looked at the dark brown slices of bread . |
| 18 | So if you 'd like to go down the stairs there there are some coats oh your coats and things and I will er go and come and join you and we 'll we 'll take off and look at the outside . |
| 19 | He unseated his rider once and fell at the 7th in the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 20 | He stood up and looked at the following wagon . |
| 21 | ‘ Well ? ’ she pressed him , sitting up and looking at the broad back facing her . |
| 22 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 23 | She stood up and grinned at the old man who owed her his life . |
| 24 | The Archon ignored him , stood up and shouted at the disappearing figure . |
| 25 | She moved restlessly and kicked at the crisp leaves at her feet . |
| 26 | An office colleague to whom I had told my story , went to Lochinver by train and bus a few months later and stayed at the same cottage . |
| 27 | Alida went out and stared at the empty letter cage in the hall , called sharply after the man , that there had been some mistake . |
| 28 | Purely in the spirit of scientific advancement , I quote this line from a sleeve-note : ’ … closing the gap between songs and instrumentals towards a point at which the listener could trip out and boogie at the same time ! ’ |
| 29 | This puts me in mind of the last Top of The Pops I watched , a show replete with beflared , poncho 'd , kaftan 'd persons doing psychotropic ‘ dances ’ , tripping out and boogieing at the same time . |
| 30 | Mobuto inhaled sharply and glanced at the massive bodyguard who was hovering in the background . |