Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The oriental gazed down at the broken body of his defeated enemy . |
| 3 | In an uncomfortable silence Nathaniel Sherman and the others gazed down at the dead buffalo cow . |
| 4 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 5 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 6 | Witcher gaped down at the smoking hob in his chest . |
| 7 | She peered down at the dark water in the basin below . |
| 8 | ‘ Mummy will be cross , ’ she murmured , wrinkling her nose as she peered down at the long tear . |
| 9 | Then she paused and peered down at the writhing thread . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | He booked in at the special executive reception on the eighteenth floor , reserving an executive suite on the twentieth floor . |
| 14 | MacAirth squinted down at the wine-stained table and muttered to himself . |
| 15 | The little plane came down at the old airport , south of the town . |
| 16 | good recruiting period and we had er thirty o thirty one I think it was or thirty four new members who came in at the general election . |
| 17 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 18 | Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door . |
| 19 | Edward came in at the french window and stared blankly at his younger sister . |
| 20 | She gestured down at the pale lilac , close-fitting , long-sleeved light wool jersey dress she was wearing . |
| 21 | Milwall have the lead that 's the important thing here it came over at the far side of the penalty area , had got up for it Ray and the Kennedy there was also a Middlesbrough foot in there . |
| 22 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |
| 23 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 24 | Angalo squinted up at the blue sky . |
| 25 | Harriet squinted up at the dark sky with businesslike appraisal . |
| 26 | THE subject of minimum wages came up at The Northern/KPMG Peat Marwick Business Briefing when Sir Ian Wrigglesworth ( CBI , Lib-Dem , ex-Labour ) was the guest speaker . |
| 27 | According to the foreign journalists camped out at the Intercontinental Hotel for weeks hoping for a simple soundbite from El Presidente , he was not seeing anyone . |
| 28 | Harry tugged back the curtains and squinted out at the painful brightness of a frosty morning . |
| 29 | Shaking her head at the kick , she lashed out at the whole row of stores opposite her cathedral and dispelled them to dust . |
| 30 | They passed the greengrocer with his window full of apples and oranges , and the butcher with bloody lumps of meat on display and naked chickens hanging up , and the small bank , and the grocery store and the electrical shop , and then they came out at the other side of the village on to the narrow country road where there were no people any more and very few motor-cars . |