Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] at [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 He just stared at his outstretched feet .
2 Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice .
3 Fernando never said a word , just smiled at her ashen features as her mouth started to quiver .
4 He was not a happy man , and the stern set of his jaw , and the way he hardly ever looked at his two operatives , made Ray Doyle realise that the fat was really in the fire this time .
5 Padding across the shaggy lawn in her slippers , she was accompanied by a tortoise-shell cat which repeatedly darted at her pink pom-poms .
6 They both looked at their younger brothers and sisters , who stared blankly back .
7 The mercenary looked them up and down once again , saw the almost joyful light in Isay 's eyes , and then glanced at his own men behind him .
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