Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] at [pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buckmaster dabbed at his thin lips with his napkin . |
| 2 | Meredith fumed at his liquefying eyes and the contemptuous curl of his sculpted mouth . |
| 3 | Dennis glanced at his tasting notes . |
| 4 | After a painstaking analysis of the data , Kepler arrived at his three laws of planetary motion , that planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun , that a line joining a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times , and that the square of the period of a planet is proportional to the cube of its mean distance from the sun . |
| 5 | Karen looked at her own hands . |
| 6 | Alyssia looked at his expressive hands , the long , clever fingers , and she wondered how well he really knew this woman . |
| 7 | Cath Carroll looked at my hole-filled jeans and nascent dreads and tittered . |
| 8 | Willie stared at their silent silhouettes in the darkness , for what seemed an eternity . |
| 9 | Jack looked at their terrified eyes and then down at the computer screen . |
| 10 | Claudia laughed at her own fears ; she was quite safe with Roman — from the sea , anyway . |
| 11 | Claudia stared at her linked fingers and planned to get away as soon as they stopped . |
| 12 | Jaq wondered at his own motives for wishing to view the mock-Stealer changing back into a woman — teasing , ambivalent motives . |
| 13 | Simpson peered at our two faces , scenting a row . |
| 14 | Gedanken stared at his bare feet . |
| 15 | Delaney pushed himself in hard behind her , the door bursting off its hinges as Mahon lunged at his disappearing legs , slicking off a chunk of rubber heel . |
| 16 | Polly looked at her scribbled notes , then shrugged . |
| 17 | Cardiff seized him with a bizarre feeling of savage relief as Jimmy gazed at his bloodied hands . |
| 18 | Alice glanced at her own hands , small , neat , the nails immaculately well maintained , and covered with a transparent varnish to protect them from the world . |
| 19 | Chesarynth looked at his sybaritic features and decided his laziness had made him prefer fleshly pleasures to work . |