Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was the time I turned up at the Arts Lab ( first and last time ) to see the Dylan film and could n't afford it . |
| 2 | I glanced up at the sails , down at the compass , then ahead to where the lighthouse loom arced powerfully through the night . |
| 3 | I had to have a talk with Mrs Rumney and a few days later I called in at The Laurels . |
| 4 | As they swung past me I looked again at the SPs and my hear gave a thud . |
| 5 | I looked round at the faces . |
| 6 | As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film . |
| 7 | I slapped gently at the sides of her face , without much success , while Miss Hinkle produced a glass of water . |
| 8 | ‘ I fell apart at the seams — I was in tears all the time , and my doctor put me on pills . ’ |
| 9 | She gazed around at the paintings which hung on the walls , looking but not really seeing . |
| 10 | She peered intently at the tears in the garments . |
| 11 | Wiping breath from the window , she peered out at the landmarks , all so distant from the place where she longed to be . |
| 12 | She poked busily at the concoctions , withdrew the tins from the oven and put them on the scrubbed wooden table to cool . |
| 13 | She glanced nervously at the windows , wondering how they 'd hold out against fiercer gusts than those already battering the house . |
| 14 | She glanced round at the cats to see how much food would be needed . |
| 15 | She glanced up at the stars to avoid looking at his face . |
| 16 | She glanced back at the marquees , but there was no sign of Richard . |
| 17 | She glanced out at the humans . |
| 18 | Paul , you looked up at the times . |
| 19 | She stared dully at the logs crackling in the hearth . |
| 20 | It was dark when they got outside , and , walking silently beside him , she stared up at the stars , and gave an unconscious little sigh . |
| 21 | She felt no surprise at hearing Luke 's voice — indeed , she felt nothing but a cold numbness as she stared round at the ruins of her home . |
| 22 | As she stared unseeingly at the advertisements in yet another newsagent 's window Folly felt the old anger come surging back . |
| 23 | For a moment she stared down at the stains and the roses , and then she walked away . |
| 24 | She stared down at the papers in her hand , not wanting to look at him . |
| 25 | Opening her briefcase , she stared down at the contents . |
| 26 | Opening the lid , she stared down at the emeralds glinting up at her like cat 's eyes , her mother 's emeralds and her grandmother 's and many generations of Grenfell women before her . |
| 27 | She stared blankly at the adverts . |
| 28 | She stared blankly at the boys for a couple of seconds , then shook her head and tried to ignore the fears that crowded her . |
| 29 | She looked round at the others , spitting dust from their mouths , coughing , shaking with cold . |
| 30 | She looked round at the cuttings strewn on the floor and then back at the blank screen . |