Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She knelt down and stared at the smaller words below it . |
| 3 | Now he knelt down and looked at the dead girl curiously . |
| 4 | Remembering a detail with sudden clarity , Charles knelt down and looked at the left-hand side of the front bumper . |
| 5 | And the three lorries could back underneath and load and go down and tip at the Golden Wharf at Lyness . |
| 6 | She turned over and looked at the illuminated dial of her alarm clock . |
| 7 | He walked over and rattled at the locked door . |
| 8 | Antony turned the grill off and looked at the dark brown slices of bread . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He stood up and looked at the following wagon . |
| 11 | ‘ Well ? ’ she pressed him , sitting up and looking at the broad back facing her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She stood up and grinned at the old man who owed her his life . |
| 14 | The Archon ignored him , stood up and shouted at the disappearing figure . |
| 15 | Alida went out and stared at the empty letter cage in the hall , called sharply after the man , that there had been some mistake . |
| 16 | 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 ! ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She tipped her head back and stared at the tumbling nymphs and satyrs that danced across it , trailing garlands of flowers . |
| 19 | ’ Alistair tipped his head back and stared at the coagulated window . |
| 20 | Stepping back and looking at the other two nuns , the Mother Superior said , ‘ Take her to her cell . ’ |
| 21 | In the daytime you can come back and look at the Old State House we 're coming up to and see the cobblestones which mark the place where blood was shed in the great Boston Massacre . |
| 22 | CLIVE SPUN around and collapsed at the same time , heaving from his shoulders in a spasm which threw Nina off his back . |
| 23 | It is a salutary exercise to turn around and look at the Fifties and the Cold War from the East instead of the West . |
| 24 | They just want something that runs about and barks at the right times . |
| 25 | This manoeuvre exposed the Russian Fifth Army 's flank to Auffenberg 's Fourth Army , still advancing northward , so Conrad commanded it to turn about and strike at the left flank of the Russian Third Army . |
| 26 | She turned round and looked at the brass-dialled clock sitting starkly on a red brick wall to the side of them and added , ‘ Only half-past eight . ’ |