Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at the [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He nodded over at the coat that had cost him an arm and a leg . |
| 2 | He gazed up at the sky that was cloudless and dry — and a mountain that had a big peak . |
| 3 | DeVore looked down at the hand that held his own . |
| 4 | Chen looked down at the hand that had grasped his own so firmly . |
| 5 | She stared up at the rigging that fretted against a sky of pearl . |
| 6 | And if things did n't go well : fifty four months , two hundred and thirty — Marcus lay on the bunk and looked up at the sag that was Pete . |
| 7 | As the rocks flashed into furnace heat he looked up at the dragon that now occupied more than half the cell . |
| 8 | She lay in Charlotte 's bed and looked up at the ceiling that Charlotte had festooned with shawls and old curtains and Indian bedspreads ( there was a definite small weight in one of those hammocks : what lay there ? |
| 9 | Willie looked up at the shadow that the man 's body was casting across her face . |
| 10 | I pointed out at the beginning that the Lindop committee had said that suspicions should be dealt with differently . |
| 11 | No one pointed out at the time that radio , like other media of mass communication , leaves the audience with the choice of looking elsewhere . |