Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Dalziel and Pascoe looked at each other for a long moment after the door had slammed behind Evans .
2 ‘ Can I … go for a walk in the garden while I think it over ? ’ she blurted , and brother and sister looked at each other .
3 When he came to Noreen , Paddy stopped , and brother and sister stared at each other .
4 Algernon and Heinrich glanced at each other .
5 And she and Marie smiled at each other , like conspirators .
6 He and Branson looked at each other with the candour of two people who know they are utterly different , but for one shared resolution .
7 Juliet and David looked at each other .
8 Suvarov had much to say about the territorial ambitions of Marshal Stalin and David interrupted at one moment to ask whether Suvarov had ever met him .
9 He and Valerie looked at each other as cordially as two people who loathe each other can .
10 Jenny and Antony looked at each other , brown eyes unblinkingly fixed on blue , over the rims of their upraised pint pots .
11 Jenny and Antony looked at each other dubiously .
12 But between 1850 and 1890 even Austro-Hungary , Norway and Ireland urbanised at this rate , Belgium and the United States at between 0.30 and 0.40 , Prussia , Australia and Argentina at between 0.40 and 0.50 , England and Wales ( still leading by a short head ) and Saxony at over 0.50 per annum .
13 Fand and Liban stood at either side of the door , more stiff and still than ever .
14 His voice was low and softly timbred and Ruth wondered at such cruelty .
15 When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor .
16 " When he went upstairs to change for dinner , Lady Agatha and Fidelma looked at each other . "
17 Mary and Reggie looked at each other , at her , and went hastily into their bedroom .
18 Karr and Chen looked at each other , some sign of understanding passing between them , then Karr looked back at Haavikko .
19 From the later 1830s the rulers of Prussia and Russia maintained at each other 's courts military plenipotentiaries , high-ranking officers whose role in relations between the two monarchs was often more important than that of any diplomat .
20 ‘ My own family was pretty undistinguished , and Stephen had at any rate a respectable reputation in his own field — though I probably overvalued it at the time .
21 As a result , extensive leaching of ooids and bioclasts occurred in the vadose zone ( early leaching ) , and cementation occurred at deeper levels in the phreatic zone .
22 Mahmoud and Owen looked at each other , then with one accord started walking .
23 Husband and wife looked at each other , then the wife said , ‘ Our daughter is handicapped .
24 Sam and Rose looked at each other and at the dark , empty square .
25 Sam and Rose mouthed at each other : ‘ Candle by the bed , ’ and nodded .
26 Ace and Daak looked at each other .
27 Paul and Nasey looked at each other with widened eyes .
28 Child and woman looked at each other with the same wonder and wariness , attracted and afraid .
29 My mother and father looked at each other .
30 The Captain and Bacci looked at each other through the communicating door .
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