Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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31 | Benjamin and I just stared speechlessly down at the abbey , then up at the great Tor . |
32 | Then back at the green image on the screen . |
33 | She looked round at the cuttings strewn on the floor and then back at the blank screen . |
34 | They stared silently out at the gentle panorama until their reveries were interrupted by loud barking from the graveyard . |
35 | But there was a figure at the window , looking silently out at the opaque sky . |
36 | Isabel glanced warily around at the silent forest , seeing nothing but dripping trees , ablaze with the autumn colours that even the dismal weather could not dim . |
37 | He slowed his delivery to linger emphatically on each syllable of the French expression " mission civilisatrice , " gazing proudly around at the assembled gathering as he did so . |
38 | He gazed briefly down at the new baby , pink in its cradle ; and said nothing . |
39 | Afterwards , incongruously dressed in a raincoat , she went to the bows and stared briefly down at the mesmerising onrush of sea where it split and foamed at Wavebreaker 's cutwater . |
40 | She looked hastily up at the rising land behind her , saw nobody , and hitched her skirts up to tuck them into her waistband . |
41 | He 's actually back at the working class Blackburn Rovers he managed before that , where he had to scrape for money and look for bargains . |
42 | Folly stared blankly out at the speeding countryside and tried to work out what her strategy should be . |