Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv prt] at the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | He gestured feebly around at the hillside . |
| 5 | He gestured angrily up at the litter bin . |
| 6 | He gestured inarticulately around at the spaceship and the Chelonians . |
| 7 | His mouth turned sullenly down at the corners , like the mouth of a joke mug Melanie had once seen in an antique shop . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | The friar glanced despondently down at the sand and gravel . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Rodo glanced confusedly up at the ceiling , half expecting the roof to collapse in on him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To Ronni 's surprise , and apparently also to Guido 's , Silvia stared humbly down at the ground for a moment . |
| 15 | She knew at once what he meant and looked nervously round at the others . |
| 16 | The owner 's wife looked nervously out at the throng from behind her lace curtains . |
| 17 | He stared grimly round at the crowd of silent watchers . |
| 18 | ‘ You walk to your London office in preference to using your car on your non-interviewing days ? ’ he enquired , and Fabia looked swiftly down at the carpet . |
| 19 | Dotty looked thoughtfully down at the tablecloth . |
| 20 | Ace stared morosely down at the rocks . |
| 21 | Paige said nothing , but stared morosely out at the wall of water . |
| 22 | She glanced up at him , and looked quickly back at the dishes as various possibilities chased through her mind . |
| 23 | Grégoire looked sullenly down at the floor . |
| 24 | Benjamin and I just stared speechlessly down at the abbey , then up at the great Tor . |
| 25 | He got up in his night-shirt and looked incredulously out at the twigs of the stately chestnut tree in front of the castle . |
| 26 | Dalziel looked sharply round at the bar . |
| 27 | Cranston stared moodily down at the floorboards , scuffing his boots over the polished surface . |
| 28 | From the walls framed aldermen stared blandly down at the gathering of some five hundred local people , mostly women , mostly in their twenties and thirties . |
| 29 | The train came into Belsize Park and she looked curiously out at the station . |
| 30 | The Doctor looked sadly down at the bodies . |