Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside two young men peered in at the lighted women with their bottles and Jonquil 's cans of Carlsberg . |
| 2 | Chuck hesitated and peered out at the teeming streets of Cholon , which they were entering . |
| 3 | She peered around at the various exhibits , squinting into the sun . |
| 4 | The enquiry looked at 1208 people who , in the application year ending 31 March 1980 , enquired , submitted application forms or dropped out at the various stages of the process of seeking to be matriculated , as well as those who matriculated and graduated . |
| 5 | Melissa glanced down at the powerful fingers with the powdering of sawdust round the nails and then up into the fierce black eyes , and her heart began to thump . |
| 6 | Then she paused and lifted the pillow and glanced down at the offending garments . |
| 7 | Turning her head towards him , Laura glanced down at the rumped sheets on the mattress beside her . |
| 8 | Hrun glanced up at the widening cracks and sighed . |
| 9 | Ybreska glanced around at the crumbling ruins of the old , derelict church . |
| 10 | D'Arcy glanced around at the deserted tables . |
| 11 | Ace glanced about at the peculiar angles that joined the walls to the floor and ceiling . |
| 12 | Donna glanced round at the other occupants of the room but they were all hunched over their chosen books , seated at the wooden desks . |
| 13 | She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees . |
| 14 | Finds at the south Iranian site of Shahr-i Sokhta , as well as much further afield in Egypt , suggest that lapis lazuli was circulated in the form of lumps and worked up at the various centres . |
| 15 | And Sue Rorstad chairman and managing director of Darlington based Poppies hit out at the six industrialists who praised the Government 's message of self reliance . |
| 16 | Gladys Brown clenched her hands and stared down at the bony knuckles . |
| 17 | She looked down at the front fastenings , then her fingers shook as they fumbled to button the jacket correctly . |
| 18 | Corbett looked down at the fearful remains of a young man who , the last time they had met , had been a vigorous young soldier interested in clearing his own name . |
| 19 | She looked down at the broad flags of the terrace they were crossing . |
| 20 | he looked down at the two hands locked onto his arm and then at the small man hurrying on ahead , and realized that he still had his chaperons , and once again they were not of his own choosing … |
| 21 | Lewis looked down at the uncarpeted floor-boards and put his note-book away . |
| 22 | He looked down at the drenched figures of the boy and dog . |
| 23 | I looked down at the pretty patterns that streets do n't know they make . |
| 24 | When she got to the large graph that shows the state of the church-roof appeal , she stopped and looked down at the waiting crowds as if she was a victorious politician looking down on her compliant voters . |
| 25 | She looked down at the patterned rugs on the floor and edged in more closely behind Gloria , gripping her skirt . |
| 26 | I looked down at the glistening pavements . |
| 27 | He looked down at the copious notes in front of him and cleared his throat again . |
| 28 | A resigned silence congealed over the rows of people and the Reverend Archibald Menzies gripped the edges of the lectern , closed his eyes and raised his face to the ceiling , then looked down at the serried faces and spoke . |
| 29 | Guido ripped free the dangling drunken door like a man putting out of its misery a fatally wounded animal , and looked down at the broken pieces in his hand . |
| 30 | Turning slightly , and almost against his own will , he looked over at the dark graves . |