Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do you ask ? ’ he narrowed his eyes and stared hard at Corbett . |
| 2 | I opened my eyes and looked up at Mick 's grinning face , leaning into the entrance to the trench . |
| 3 | Moodie licked his lips and looked nervously at Queen Margaret . |
| 4 | My daughter , he told himself as he brushed his teeth and stared down at number 47 's red Mitsubishi , is like me , fat and untalented . |
| 5 | Rudd developed his junked BRM ‘ wing ’ car ideas and beavered away at Ketteringham Hall with his think tank — a team that included Peter Wright , an ex-BRM colleague who fathered active suspension — to produce the F1 Lotus 78 . |
| 6 | She snatched off a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and looked up at Maxim with myopic surprise . |
| 7 | Two sets of footsteps , one heavy and unsteady , and the light ones aye behind them , mounted the stairs and paused long at Eachuinn Odhar 's door , before turning into the room opposite . |
| 8 | I cradled the gun in my arms and set off at Emergency Speed , hurtling down the path back to the island at maximum , trusting to luck and adrenalin that I would n't put a foot wrong and end up lying gasping in the grass with a multiple fracture of the femur . |
| 9 | Cranston blinked to hide his tears and grinned over at Athelstan . |
| 10 | It had a curious history , for it miraculously survived the destruction of the Tuileries and turned up at Chislehurst in 1871 by unknown means . |
| 11 | She leaned forward on her elbows and looked up at Briant with an expression of almost ludicrous earnestness on her face . |
| 12 | Peptides were added to lysates of 35 S-methionine-labelled cells and incubated overnight at 4°C . |