Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [vb past] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked acutely uncomfortable and glanced accusingly at the lawyer , who said : |
| 2 | His glass eye — he had lost the original when he was cleaning a gun — seemed to swivel further out of true than usual and stared pleasantly at the fire ; the real one looked like a razor . |
| 3 | He was happier with this , though , than with his rather over-pan-fried John Dory , which was dry and turned up at the edges . |
| 4 | It was virulent and hate-filled and directed entirely at the people beneath them . |
| 5 | She stood still and looked across at the beer tent , shading her eyes . |
| 6 | He kept it rolling and swerved off at the first exit on the right . |
| 7 | A he-dryad waiting at the stairs spread his arms wide and grinned woodenly at the figure hurtling towards him . |
| 8 | The Chairman opened his eyes wide and grinned suggestively at the audience . |
| 9 | Then I opened my fingers wide and peered down at the floor . |
| 10 | He had a pale face , deep blue eyes , hair darker and straighter than hers , and a mouth which curved and turned up at the corners in an almost feminine way . |
| 11 | Make sure that the ladder you are working on is secure and put up at the correct angle ( 1 metre out for every 4 metres up the wall ) . |
| 12 | Two of the girls were terrified and looked pleadingly at the third ; so Roksanda gathered up the precious stones . |
| 13 | But the 25year-old , who can earn a reported £5,000 a day , fled barefoot and arrived later at the Speke home of her grandparents , Bill , 80 , and Irene , 72 . |