Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slumped in the far corner of the white Corniche and watched her mother nervously hugging the steering wheel and peering at the road ahead . |
| 2 | But it met a lump of grief and anger at the back of her throat and came out more like a sob . |
| 3 | Benedict took the card and glanced at the name . |
| 4 | This violent thoroughfare , with its fumes , speed and bandits at the traffic lights , is like a medieval allegory of the pathway to hell . |
| 5 | This request was important in that it forced the staff involved in Guidance to review the programme and look at the students ' experiences in totality . |
| 6 | In fact , one piece of wood makes up the side of the guitar , all the way from the endpin , round the left-hand side , behind the neck and ending at the point of the cutaway . |
| 7 | Dönitz adjusted his glasses , took the first sheet of paper from the file , opened his mouth and bawled at the microphone as though it was the furthest sailor on the longest parade ground in the Third Reich . |
| 8 | Aaron sat on the roof and stared at the sky . |
| 9 | Hari made tea and sat at the table , her hands curled around the warmth of the cup . |
| 10 | He followed her , but stopped in the living room doorway and looked at the room . |
| 11 | I sat by the fire and read the file twice , then I went back into the kitchen , made myself some more tea and a chicken sandwich and sat at the table , eating the sandwich and thinking about things . |
| 12 | ‘ Feel the weight and look at the thickness , that is a good clue to how strong it will be . |
| 13 | They can go upstairs to the first floor , almost directly above this passage ; in this case they walk up a gentle incline and arrive at the west door leading from location 54 . |
| 14 | Okay well it will be interesting to see what er what other people have , have said about it because I was sort of fishing around a bit in the dark and looking at the stats manual |
| 15 | The dominant cultures have very often not understood their ways , have gaped at their nakedness and laughed at the rituals they do not understand . |
| 16 | She sat in her study and stared at the telephone . |
| 17 | In 1880 he became a deacon of the Episcopal Church in Scotland ; in 1881 he was ordained priest and served at the church of St John the Evangelist , Edinburgh . |
| 18 | On Thursday we drew the whole thing together ending up with team practice and looking at the videos in the evening . |
| 19 | ‘ They still could not make the dogs let go and so they got in their car and drove at the dogs with headlights flashing , ’ said a Scotland Yard spokesman . |
| 20 | He went up on the left of me , sliced back in front of my car and dived at the inside of Niki from way too far back … |
| 21 | Then she got the photographs out of her handbag and looked at the view of the swimming-pool . |
| 22 | Sea waybills have reduced some of the above uncertainties by limiting the number of qualified issuers , minimizing the possibilities of fraud and arriving at the port of destination prior to arrival of the goods . |
| 23 | On May 7 details were published of the report of a judicial inquiry into massive levels of fraud and waste at the Department of Development Aid between 1984 and 1989 . |
| 24 | The detective , whose name and rank have not been given , is a member of the Essex force and worked at the Brentwood office of the No 5 Regional Crime Squad , covering a large area of East Anglia and the South-east . |
| 25 | In that case her relatives would have enquired for her , raised a hue and cry at the time of the accident . ’ |
| 26 | Maybe he needed some moral support : I jumped up onto the fence and glared at the woman . |
| 27 | Wandering out again like an unhappy ghost , she went into her workroom , turned on the light and stared at the bench . |
| 28 | Then I turned out the light and settled at the window amidst the bottle-brush fronds of monkey-puzzle . |
| 29 | Snug fitting and elasticated at the waist . |
| 30 | The bear suddenly stopped eating and glared at the knight , its small , piggy eyes red with hatred . |