Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv prt] 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 | 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | The friar glanced despondently down at the sand and gravel . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Rodo glanced confusedly up at the ceiling , half expecting the roof to collapse in on him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | To Ronni 's surprise , and apparently also to Guido 's , Silvia stared humbly down at the ground for a moment . |
| 14 | The owner 's wife looked nervously out at the throng from behind her lace curtains . |
| 15 | He stared grimly round at the crowd of silent watchers . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Dotty looked thoughtfully down at the tablecloth . |
| 18 | Paige said nothing , but stared morosely out at the wall of water . |
| 19 | Grégoire looked sullenly down at the floor . |
| 20 | Benjamin and I just stared speechlessly down at the abbey , then up at the great Tor . |
| 21 | Dalziel looked sharply round at the bar . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The train came into Belsize Park and she looked curiously out at the station . |
| 24 | Maybe that was the basic problem , she told herself wearily as she now stared blindly up at the ceiling . |
| 25 | Thoroughly confused , she turned her head and stared blindly down at the fire . |
| 26 | She stared blankly down at the desk and , when she looked up , the clerk had gone . |
| 27 | Maggie gazed anxiously up at the sky as she and Nevil emerged from the Sauchiehall Street picture house that he 'd taken her to . |
| 28 | Regan gazed abstractedly up at the ceiling , puffing away at his cigar . |
| 29 | Tessa watched him , completely absorbed in him , as he sat wearily down at the table again , located the brown sugar among the remains of the breakfast things , and dug a spoonful out to lick at . |
| 30 | For the second time that night she slid silently in at a garden gate . |