Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead . |
| 2 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 3 | She slammed back the driving seat and looked at the unfamiliar dashboard with all its foreign signals . |
| 4 | In her parent 's garden in Brentwood , little Marisa Leicester stood beside her Optimist and smiled at the 30 cameramen . |
| 5 | I lay there on the couch and shuddered at the very thought . |
| 6 | One night , she got up and turned on the light and looked at the sweet , bland face of Jesus , the Light of the World , in the picture over the mantelpiece . |
| 7 | The Weasel stepped up to the horse and peered at the dishevelled figure . |
| 8 | In any case , most City people put politics to one side and looked at the nascent company as a simple business proposition . |
| 9 | ‘ Come and have a drink , ’ said Cormack , and they moved into the bar and sat at the fixed tables and watched the glasses slide from rim to rim . |
| 10 | He turned right and went half-way along the corridor and knocked at the fourth door . |
| 11 | He pulled out a bundle and looked at the first address , but he did n't recognise it . |
| 12 | But regarding wages and hours they were all taken by the executive council and debated at the national joint committee with the employers . |
| 13 | Mike pushed the papers back across the desk and looked at the Old Man , who raised his eyebrows questioningly . |
| 14 | He walked into the lobby without a word , entered the kitchen and gazed at the four prisoners . |
| 15 | Less compromising are Brideshead-style ‘ bags ’ : cream-spotted navy , with an elasticated waist in Donna Karan 's DKNY collection ; navy silky viscose and cuffed at the 11-inch ankle in C'Est Comme Ca . |
| 16 | Clinton sat down beside the slop bucket and smiled at the two men . |
| 17 | That someone reached the landing and appeared at the open door of the bedroom . |
| 18 | I felt at the torn threads in my blouse and looked at the grazed skin underneath and shuddered , but I was all right and so was the tree . |
| 19 | Cranston glanced at Athelstan out of the corner of his eye and smiled at the barbed reminder what was true of Fulke and others in the Tower was also true of his relationship with the Lady Maude . |
| 20 | Look at them — ’ The swan stretched a wing and pointed at the departing ducks . |
| 21 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 22 | Five years ago , the cabinetmaker John Nethercott and his wife Annie stood in the drizzle and gazed at the leprous grey hulk of Upper House , Discoed . |
| 23 | With a rush of glee , he lifted a fallen machete and swung at the nearest Secte Rouge , biting deep into his side . |
| 24 | He finally slumped against the nearest crate and stared at the dimpled area around the bung . |
| 25 | We left the Daro river next day and arrived at the Awash a fortnight later . |
| 26 | He threw back his head and laughed at the grey , lonely skies . |
| 27 | Walter Carew raised his head and stared at the grey tendrils of smoke climbing up from the brown barren waste . |
| 28 | He shook his head and beckoned at the same time , feeling an unutterable fool for doing so . |
| 29 | But when there was no retort from her granddaughter , she turned her head and looked at the young woman lying with her back against the head of the couch , her eyes closed , the muscles of her jaws showing white through the skin , and , her tone changing , she enquired , ‘ What is it , dear ? |
| 30 | As a small boy , growing up in Liverpool , I stood at the Pier Head and marvelled at the huge Atlantic liners berthed at the world 's largest floating landing-stage . |