Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] 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 | I looked round at the faces . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | She gazed around at the paintings which hung on the walls , looking but not really seeing . |
7 | Wiping breath from the window , she peered out at the landmarks , all so distant from the place where she longed to be . |
8 | She glanced round at the cats to see how much food would be needed . |
9 | She glanced up at the stars to avoid looking at his face . |
10 | She glanced back at the marquees , but there was no sign of Richard . |
11 | She glanced out at the humans . |
12 | Paul , you looked up at the times . |
13 | It was dark when they got outside , and , walking silently beside him , she stared up at the stars , and gave an unconscious little sigh . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | For a moment she stared down at the stains and the roses , and then she walked away . |
16 | She stared down at the papers in her hand , not wanting to look at him . |
17 | Opening her briefcase , she stared down at the contents . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | She looked round at the others , spitting dust from their mouths , coughing , shaking with cold . |
20 | She looked round at the cuttings strewn on the floor and then back at the blank screen . |
21 | Then she looked around at the men on offer , braying nightclub fools mostly , and decided that , even without racing commitments and pain , she would be planning to leave early . |
22 | She looked around at the fields . |
23 | The fortune-teller lay on her back behind the low wall and she was dying , or perhaps she was dead , for her eyes were open and she looked up at the stars . |
24 | She looked up at the books on the shelves and reached for the closest . |
25 | She looked up at the advertisements above the windows . |
26 | She looked down at the roses . |
27 | She looked down at the notes on the small side table , and then pulled off her wore framed pince-nez . |
28 | She looked back at the stepping-stones , over which the river was rushing noisily . |
29 | She looked back at the waves and pulled hard and carefully with her oars . |
30 | When he hired a taxi to take her to Eastbourne for the day ( the same man who took a bus to the theatre , rather than pay for a cab ) she jumped out at the lights near Oval cricket ground because she was so disturbed by his erratic behaviour . |