Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tristan made a noncommittal gesture and his brother sank wearily down at the table . |
| 2 | Willie hung on to Tom 's left trouser leg and peered gingerly round at the mare as they walked past it . |
| 3 | Knees should be flexed comfortably , the racquet pointing towards your opponent , weight on the balls of the feet , and the body bent slightly forwards at the waist . |
| 4 | But when she brushed her hair out of her face and peered cautiously over at the bench Guy lay in the same position , completely unmoving . |
| 5 | ‘ You disappoint me , ’ he said under his breath , and Rachel 's heart beat even faster at the darkness in his voice . |
| 6 | He 'd away just at the start of the war . |
| 7 | He gestured feebly around at the hillside . |
| 8 | He gestured angrily up at the litter bin . |
| 9 | The eighteenth century witnessed a substantial rise in population which accelerated even further at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | He gestured inarticulately around at the spaceship and the Chelonians . |
| 11 | Scarlet turned away uneasily at the mention of upbringing : Brian 's first wife had telephoned only a few weeks before to say that Brian 's son was causing her hair to turn grey and fall out . |
| 12 | It scared her , but as she glanced secretly across at the face she had never forgotten for one moment she realised she was more excited than scared . |
| 13 | ‘ This is a pleasant room — very charming , ’ he murmured , clearly absorbed by his own inner thoughts as he glanced idly around at the cream carpet and the matching raw silk curtains edging the windows . |
| 14 | I think Eddie was frightened , and that 's why he gambled so heavily at the end . ’ |
| 15 | The friar glanced despondently down at the sand and gravel . |
| 16 | I glanced once more at the hotel , thinking of the comfort of sheets , the softness of a bed . |
| 17 | As she reached her father 's house she walked straight in at the gate , which she hardly bothered to open quietly , and flung the stone as hard as she could at the glass of the bedroom window . |
| 18 | Rodo glanced confusedly up at the ceiling , half expecting the roof to collapse in on him . |
| 19 | She came to a little patch of sand , the bottom of a miniature canyon , and on the far side of it there was a smooth grey rock , sliced neatly off at the top to make a platform . |
| 20 | She glanced reluctantly across at the group , and saw Stephanie reaching up on tiptoe to kiss Roman 's dark cheek . |
| 21 | We had been looking forward rather to this little drive between East and West Tarbert , but our greatest pleasure was when we stepped safely down at the pier where the little Islay steamer " Fingal " was waiting to carry us to this island of Jura . |
| 22 | Things started so well at the weekend I knew it could not last . |
| 23 | Mrs Shephard hinted strongly yesterday at an element of compulsion in some of the schemes being considered to help those out of work for more than one year . |
| 24 | ‘ He talked quite freely at a time when very few people did . |
| 25 | When Ruth called yet again at the post office a letter was waiting for her . |
| 26 | To Ronni 's surprise , and apparently also to Guido 's , Silvia stared humbly down at the ground for a moment . |
| 27 | of the two wooden chairs at the kitchen table and looked rather helplessly at the card with its seven clearly written digits , then glanced round as if seeking inspiration where to put it for safe keeping . |
| 28 | The owner 's wife looked nervously out at the throng from behind her lace curtains . |
| 29 | He stared grimly round at the crowd of silent watchers . |
| 30 | Once upon a time ( I said , and he stared bitterly bitterly at the floor ) there was a very ugly monster who captured a princess and put her in a dungeon in his castle . |