Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC got together at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge'93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 2 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 3 | Zach gazed round at the tiny wooden bed under the eaves . |
| 4 | Edward came in at the french window and stared blankly at his younger sister . |
| 5 | Angalo squinted up at the blue sky . |
| 6 | Corbett squinted down at the faded blue-green ink . |
| 7 | Meredith poked mistrustfully at the colourful heap on her plate with the fork . |
| 8 | The first night 's long walk up to the moor with the hives , Ruari glanced back at the wee lass trotting along behind Ranald 's lurch , gamely holding up her end of the staff . |
| 9 | Galvone glanced down at the wall-to-wall shag carpet , shrugged . |
| 10 | Donna glanced round at the other occupants of the room but they were all hunched over their chosen books , seated at the wooden desks . |
| 11 | Schellenberg glanced around at the desolate landscape . |
| 12 | Rex glanced down at the billfold and then back to the screen . |
| 13 | Manville glanced back at the black sedan as the taxi surged forward . |
| 14 | Corbett looked down at the fearful remains of a young man who , the last time they had met , had been a vigorous young soldier interested in clearing his own name . |
| 15 | Rex looked around at the jaded office . |
| 16 | Crouched in the shadows at the curve of the banister , Frankie stared down at the dark jungle of coats and jackets hanging from a row of wall-hooks in the lower corridor . |
| 17 | Mr Stokill looked approvingly at the finished job . |
| 18 | Meredith looked back at the heaving throng on the shop floor . |
| 19 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 20 | Dr Neil looked down at the bent blue-black head , and some idea of the enormous concession she was making to him struck home . |
| 21 | So it was not until 30 August that Brusilov struck hard at the Austrian right , causing it to collapse and its formations to retreat westward in panic and confusion . |
| 22 | Programme assistant Ian Edgar stood in at the last minute . |
| 23 | At last , at dinner one evening , the conversations and laughter died away raggedly as Duart stood up at the high table and raised his hand . |
| 24 | But Anna did not talk to him , because Sarah came in at the same time . |
| 25 | Zack drove always at the proper speed , his companions upright and silent in their seats . |
| 26 | Jane gazed up at the towering bulk . |
| 27 | Fitzormonde gazed up at the cruel gargoyle faces on the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula . |
| 28 | Katherine gazed out at the empty Manhattan streets . |
| 29 | Hrun glanced up at the widening cracks and sighed . |
| 30 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |