Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [vb past] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enquiry looked at 1208 people who , in the application year ending 31 March 1980 , enquired , submitted application forms or dropped out at the various stages of the process of seeking to be matriculated , as well as those who matriculated and graduated . |
| 2 | Corbett narrowed his eyes and squinted up at the sky . |
| 3 | He screwed up his eyes and stared unseeingly at the calendar on the further wall . |
| 4 | He wiped the sweat from his eyes and looked down at the automatic in his hand . |
| 5 | Lambert opened his eyes and looked bleakly at the map . |
| 6 | He measured out thirty paces and stared up at the crenellated boundary wall which was about twenty feet high . |
| 7 | He shrugged his shoulders and looked dumbly at the grain on the wooden table . |
| 8 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 9 | The priest rested his elbows on his knees and looked down at the floor . |
| 10 | Bodie went up the steps and stared down at the girl , who looked up at him pathetically . |
| 11 | The monk licked his lips and looked sideways at the Bishop . |
| 12 | However , ’ he stamped his feet and looked up at the darkened mass of the church , ‘ no one , not even in Southwark , can be that degenerate . |
| 13 | The coroner stamped his feet and looked up at the star-filled sky . |
| 14 | The lassitude still on her , she came slowly to her feet and looked down at the boy , who stood up , shifting uneasily . |
| 15 | Fulke shuffled his feet and looked down at the floor . |
| 16 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
| 17 | He arrived at 1.30am on the first day , slept for a few hours and turned up at the clubhouse to find he was in the field . |
| 18 | They stood on the banks and looked across at the blanket of fog coming from the river . |
| 19 | Polly felt a blush warm her cheeks and looked down at the food . |
| 20 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 21 | Finds at the south Iranian site of Shahr-i Sokhta , as well as much further afield in Egypt , suggest that lapis lazuli was circulated in the form of lumps and worked up at the various centres . |
| 22 | Wyn-rajathuk rubbed ash between his palms and stared down at the smear of grey lines . |
| 23 | But the rest of me ignored those details and clutched hungrily at the reassurance that she had n't really played a willing part in my humiliation . |
| 24 | She folded her arms and frowned briefly at the memory . |
| 25 | Getting out of bed , Rachel flung open the curtains and looked out at the September morning . |
| 26 | Harry tugged back the curtains and squinted out at the painful brightness of a frosty morning . |
| 27 | As the creature moved within five metres of her , she held on to the chair with both hands and ran straight at the creature 's unprotected stomach area . |
| 28 | Gladys Brown clenched her hands and stared down at the bony knuckles . |
| 29 | Dissenting Labour councillor Eddie Dryden refused to support the spending cuts and hit out at the way the proposals were presented to the Labour group prior to the meeting . |
| 30 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |