Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hell was being without God , I thought , but I said nothing , just stared instead at the white wash of cabin light on the rushing water , and I wondered why some people could take cocaine and just walk away from it , while others ended up in hell , or in a peep-show which was probably the same thing . |
| 2 | He had sounded immensely sad as he spoke , and I wondered if the girl had meant more to him than being merely a casual friend , but I did not like to ask and Maggovertski was clearly disinclined to explain more , so I just stared down at the aerial chart , and I suddenly noticed , in an otherwise empty space beneath an intersection of two air corridors , the tiny island of Murder Cay . |
| 3 | It was to be nine months before we finally emerged again at the other end of the archipelago — shocked , emaciated , but exalted . |
| 4 | Now he hardly glanced up at the dressing-gowned figure standing at the door . |
| 5 | Mark listened aghast at the naive and dangerous idealism of the young , starry-eyed politician , who was light years away from knowing what really went on at the sharp end of European and international trade . |
| 6 | " I just do n't know why you turn me on at all , " Slater said , then peered closely at the other young man 's face and said pointedly , " Are you listening to me , Park ? " |
| 7 | Within seconds he had been substituted and within minutes a goal almost came about at the other end . |
| 8 | Whitlock noticed the holster affixed to the guard 's belt , then glanced down at the leashed Doberman sitting obediently beside him . |
| 9 | She needed every scrap of self-confidence she could rustle up , she thought , then grinned crookedly at the wary light in her eyes reflected by the glass . |
| 10 | His eyes met Rosten 's , bright with gratitude , then looked down at the short sword . |
| 11 | A resigned silence congealed over the rows of people and the Reverend Archibald Menzies gripped the edges of the lectern , closed his eyes and raised his face to the ceiling , then looked down at the serried faces and spoke . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , Dr Markham , I was , ’ she nodded then looked back at the other man . |
| 13 | Robyn listened , stared , digesting all that he had said and then looked back at the magnificent sixty-foot holly tree . |
| 14 | He then stared up at the blue sky . |
| 15 | Artemis curtsied again , and then stared up at the beautiful and elegant woman . |
| 16 | Jane fidgeted with the signal pads on her desk , plucked a thread from the sleeve of her jacket then stared blankly at the chewed end of her Admiralty-issue pencil . |
| 17 | She hesitated and then sat down at the far end of one where a lone man was wholly immersed in a newspaper . |
| 18 | He studied him a moment , intently , almost fiercely , then pointed up at the overhead camera . |
| 19 | When the ruler first came in contact with Millie 's knuckles she actually cried back at the startled sister , ‘ Do n't do that ! |