Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall . |
| 2 | Twenty years earlier , R. A. Butler had shared the same fate , recalling the ‘ blood curdling demands ’ made annually at the Conservative Party Conference for the restoration of corporal punishment which had ‘ quite clouded ’ his time as Chairman of the Party . |
| 3 | Wage regulation applied only at the upper limit . |
| 4 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They gazed down at the innocent football being kicked back and forth against the wall outside , the thwack of the ball booming in the street amongst the traffic noise . |
| 7 | The oriental gazed down at the broken body of his defeated enemy . |
| 8 | In an uncomfortable silence Nathaniel Sherman and the others gazed down at the dead buffalo cow . |
| 9 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 10 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 11 | The Liberal Democrat vote sagged badly at the general election and they 'll be pleased still to hold seven council wards after this vote . |
| 12 | Witcher gaped down at the smoking hob in his chest . |
| 13 | She peered down at the dark water in the basin below . |
| 14 | ‘ Mummy will be cross , ’ she murmured , wrinkling her nose as she peered down at the long tear . |
| 15 | Then she paused and peered down at the writhing thread . |
| 16 | One might think that this unpredictability would n't matter too much if it occurred only at the big bang ; after all , that was ten or twenty billion years ago . |
| 17 | In principle , this made profitable the speculative holding of stocks of goods whose price rose only at the average rate . |
| 18 | The banquet began with the usual mumbo-jumbo , except the cardinal dined alone at the high table under a rich cloth of state , his fat body almost hidden by platters of heaped delicacies , whilst all around him stood serving men to refill his goblet , replenish napkins or offer a fresh knife . |
| 19 | His lips sucked eagerly at the golden liquid . |
| 20 | Vologsky grasped desperately at the floating straw . |
| 21 | His eyes narrowed dangerously at the undisguised sarcasm in her voice |
| 22 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 23 | The cop peered up at the towering fire escape for several seconds , then , satisfied it was deserted , he walked across the alley to the opposite wall . |
| 24 | At the top a glass cocktail bar slowly revolved , and drinkers exclaimed gaily at the changing spectacle of industrial buildings under construction . |
| 25 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
| 26 | Alesi , seeing Berger 's car late , moved across at the Ascari bend and collided with his team-mate . |
| 27 | Alesi , seeing Berger 's car too late , moved across at the Ascari bend and collided . |
| 28 | She dabbed ineffectually at the fine material . |
| 29 | The latter 's delight and enthusiasm were such that he insisted that Nicholas should be sent to study at Oxford University and maintained there at the royal charge ; but a month later the youth died , on his twentieth birthday . |
| 30 | She peered anxiously at the reddening bruise on Perkin 's cheek , a twin to one on mine . |