Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at the small [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She peered at the smaller typewriter 's message : |
2 | And she took the child by the hand and walked her to the settle , and when they were seated she looked at the small figure by her side , at the hair , like a golden halo round the oval face , and the limpid grey eyes gazing so trustfully at her . |
3 | She looked at the small key on the table , then dropped that into the envelope with the note . |
4 | Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent . |
5 | ‘ Pardon ? ’ as he peered at the smaller hump . |
6 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
7 | He looked at the small piece of plastic . |
8 | He looked at the small glass dials on the wooden dashboard . |
9 | He stared at the small postcard in front of him . |
10 | Sharpe instinctively reined in his horse as he stared at the small cluster of buildings that marked the crossroads called Quatre Bras . |