Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lacuna appeared distracted , her face frozen in surprise as she gazed unseeingly at the ceaseless struggle . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She gazed accusingly at the sheepless landscape . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She peered anxiously at the reddening bruise on Perkin 's cheek , a twin to one on mine . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She dabbed ineffectually at the fine material . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In a mad impulsive movement , which Molly later insisted was self defence , she jabbed desperately at the oncoming fish . |
| 22 | She sniffed enquiringly at the empty hay rack and looked round at her owner . |
| 23 | Chrissie came into the lounge , looking slight and fragile in her housecoat ; she glanced nervously at the two CI5 men . |
| 24 | She glanced meaningfully at the linked hands of Juliet and David . |
| 25 | As the hospital grew bigger and nearer , she glanced again at the little boy and saw with horror that he was tiny . |
| 26 | She was tired out now , her eyes ached from lack of sleep and jet-lag , and she glanced longingly at the king-sized bed with its lace-trimmed peach silk sheets . |
| 27 | She glanced across at the dog-eared book of maps that lay on the passenger-seat beside her . |
| 28 | But if you looked carefully at the left-hand side , where there was a glass-enclosed porch , you might have noticed a few little birds flying around , the odd flash and flitter of coloured wings . |
| 29 | As she said it , she stared fixedly at the shredded corner of her notepad and wished vainly , but with all her heart , that it were true . |
| 30 | Shocked , she stared disbelievingly at the receding back of Doctor Anderson , and wondered what had been contained in the message that had made a member of the staff drop everything in such an unprofessional way . |