Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He opened his eyes and glanced at the clock beside his bed . |
| 2 | Ronni opened her eyes and stared at the moon , feeling her poor heart quiver inside her . |
| 3 | Nell raised her eyes and looked at the rest of the body ; and caught her breath . |
| 4 | She shut her eyes and tugged at the rope , sending the boat soaring high up over the scruffy , stinking little fair and the bare-headed people and the wide , comfortable , pleasure-loving river . |
| 5 | Ronni looked into his eyes and smiled at the compliment , inwardly shuddering as he took her in his arms and proceeded to lead her in time to the music . |
| 6 | He went and got his overcoat and put it on over his pyjamas and sat at the table smoking a cigarette . |
| 7 | He put a supporting arm round Farquhar 's shoulders and grinned at the men rowing only hard enough to hold the ship steady . |
| 8 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 9 | Wycliffe walked to work with a salty taste on his lips and arrived at the Incident Room as the little printer was opening up . |
| 10 | Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other . |
| 11 | He blew out his fat , purpled cheeks , dug his hands deep in his breeches pockets and looked at the sky with a martyred air . |
| 12 | She tucked her hands under her armpits and stared at the ground . |
| 13 | Now , we 've used this technique in invasive bladder cancer , and we 've quantified the micro-vascularity in a group of invasive cancers and looked at the prognosis and metastasis . |
| 14 | She immediately sprang to her feet and shouted at the top of her voice : ‘ HEY HAL . |
| 15 | She prowled among the desks and glowered at the action boards as if they were a bunch of football hooligans . |
| 16 | ‘ No , ’ he answered , and he picked at one of the nails on his fingers and stared at the floorboards wishing he could disappear into them . |
| 17 | Athelstan ground his teeth and glared at the coroner but Sir John smiled sweetly back as if innocent of any devious stratagem . |
| 18 | She finished her notes and looked at the list of suspects . |
| 19 | The sledger shouted and kicked , he cursed the dogs and swore at the television crew The dogs slept on and the race went past him . |
| 20 | Marin won the Grand Prix de Sculpture in 1801 and then moved to Rome where he stayed at the Villa Medici for ten years and taught at the Accademia di San Luca . |
| 21 | I left them as I approached No. 6 Commando positions and stood at the side of the road and watched them all pass by . |
| 22 | When he was full he leaned back on his haunches and looked at the mess of blood and flesh . |
| 23 | A raven swooped down from its perch in the rafters and dived at the wizard , talons open and gleaming . |
| 24 | He whipped at his horse with the reins and stared at the wood ahead , trying to drag it closer by sheer willpower . |
| 25 | and McNeill J. , had to consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus , where justices had refused bail on the ground that there was likely to be interference with witnesses and had at an application for a further remand in custody declined to hear the defendant 's counsel who wished to renew the application for bail on the basis that there had been a material change of circumstances . |
| 26 | Sybil and Melissa mounted what had once been an imposing flight of steps flanked by tall white pillars and peered at the labels alongside the row of bell-pushes in a corroding brass frame affixed to the wall beside the front door . |
| 27 | He walked round the cold rooms and looked at the place with a stranger 's eyes . |
| 28 | In desperation she ran down the stairs and called at a neighbour ( whose young son happily was at home ) . |
| 29 | Eight of the men came running out of the trees and heaved at the sides of the lorry . |
| 30 | A hand was clapped roughly over her mouth , and she was almost lifted up by the arms and moved at a run back into the house , where Mrs Prynn was waiting in her nightcap and gown , with the trap door into the cellar open and the key in her hand . |