Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 2 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 3 | Zak , I improvised instantly at the first enquiry , had thought the gaunt man had an interesting face and he wanted to ask if he could use him in a scene . |
| 4 | But when I looked again at the taut group riveted to the game , now not even speaking , I had my doubts . |
| 5 | I looked round the room , then I looked again at the old man . |
| 6 | I looked again at the little cat . |
| 7 | As I approached I looked wonderingly at the slight figure with the soft fairish hair falling over his brow , at the holed cardigan and muck-encrusted wellingtons . |
| 8 | I looked apprehensively at the five operating-type tables spaced far from each other round the wide tiled room . |
| 9 | I looked doubtfully at the rickety structure of planks and corrugated iron . |
| 10 | ‘ I feared even at the eleventh hour that it would not be possible — and I knew not when we could meet else . ’ |
| 11 | We opt for The Baker 's Wife at the Phoenix and all vote it a definite winner , and I wonder again at the jaundiced palate of critics who gave it a fair old drubbing when it first trotted out . |
| 12 | A sphere of hard solid rubber not much bigger than a golf ball and jammed like a cork in the pharynx , effectively blocking the trachea , I scrabbled feverishly at the wet smoothness but there was nothing to get bold of . |
| 13 | Just what I need right at the present moment ! ’ |
| 14 | Lacuna appeared distracted , her face frozen in surprise as she gazed unseeingly at the ceaseless struggle . |
| 15 | She gazed again at the peaceful scene in front of her until her eyes rested on an old Severn Punt lying high and dry on the foreshore . |
| 16 | She gazed accusingly at the sheepless landscape . |
| 17 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
| 18 | She peered closely at the surrounding mass of faces , comprising ten of the cleaner or nicer-looking boys from the boarding section , who were whispering and fooling among themselves and taking little notice of her . |
| 19 | She peered anxiously at the reddening bruise on Perkin 's cheek , a twin to one on mine . |
| 20 | The air did n't feel sharply cold enough for snow , and Clare hoped it would n't rain ; she peered upward at the dull , grey sky . |
| 21 | She dabbed ineffectually at the fine material . |
| 22 | I hope that this series of articles may have encouraged you to look again at the various stitch patterns which your machine can produce . |
| 23 | Methinks that the Dolls were n't the ‘ damp-squib ’ that Nick Kent would have led us to believe , because if you look closely at the increasing number of British ‘ punk ’ bands emerging by the shipload , you will see in each one , a little bit of the Dolls . |
| 24 | Er particularly if you look just at the ordinary wall fronts the front wall the stones are very much more heavily eroded there than they are on this this the aisle here . |
| 25 | When you 're inside there if you look right at the far end you 'll see one of the old windows , a beautiful old window that 's five hundred years old . |
| 26 | With a nail brush she scrubbed persistently at the frosted glass of the small window , where something black ( dirt ? or some kind of growth ? ) spread all along the indented patterns on the glass . |
| 27 | In a mad impulsive movement , which Molly later insisted was self defence , she jabbed desperately at the oncoming fish . |
| 28 | She sniffed enquiringly at the empty hay rack and looked round at her owner . |
| 29 | Chrissie came into the lounge , looking slight and fragile in her housecoat ; she glanced nervously at the two CI5 men . |
| 30 | She glanced meaningfully at the linked hands of Juliet and David . |