Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Frasque , that had seemed so desiccated and invulnerable , shrivelled and burned at the Capellans ' slightest gesture . |
| 2 | It caught and twisted at the heart , and there was no armour against it . |
| 3 | They hooted and waved at the boats as they whizzed by . |
| 4 | John slowly rose and sat at the table where he was soon joined by the two women . |
| 5 | He knew that she stopped and stared at the sea or the sky far too much these days . |
| 6 | It was a very nice day out actually , and everything from serious riders who just went up and down and the most energetic one did a hundred miles , to families who treated it , took a picnic and stopped and looked at the badger tunnels . |
| 7 | She stopped and looked at the garden ; inside the square was a circle of flower beds . |
| 8 | She stopped and blushed at the stupidity of the question , adding quickly , ‘ You work here in the village , of course . ‘ |
| 9 | Then he stopped and bowed at the waist . |
| 10 | Old Ranza , a very large and mostly white collie , sighed by her chair as she hummed and hawed at the cottage sketch . |
| 11 | This was foreseen by the local residents who objected and petitioned at the time planning permission was under consideration . |
| 12 | I changed and bathed at the tavern where my master was staying in Great Mary Axe Street near Bishopsgate . |
| 13 | Poor Kodiak whined and scratched at the verandah door as we drove off . |
| 14 | Trent surfaced and yelled at the men in the cockpit to swim a lifejacket out to him . |
| 15 | MacDiarmid waved him forward with a commanding sweep of his arm and he came and sat at the end of the table . |
| 16 | Both places had latches and as long as I got ten yards ' start on him , I could slam the door shut and slip my half clothes-peg under the latch — I always carried a half clothes-peg for the purpose — and no matter how much he blasphemed and kicked at the door he could n't get in . |
| 17 | As a leading historian of medieval technology has remarked , ‘ No European community felt able to hold up its head unless in its midst the planets wheeled in cycles and epicycles , whilst angels trumpeted and countermarched at the booming of the hours . ’ |
| 18 | Benjamin stirred and shouted at the slattern to bring a toothpick . |
| 19 | In an extract from the introduction to the Birds of Australia , Gould describes the fate that befell these two men who lived and died at the mercy of the violent and contrary Australian climate : |
| 20 | Monica asked and looked at the wall map of the continent . |
| 21 | ‘ did fail to stop ’ , means did fail to stop immediately the accident happened and remain at the scene of the accident long enough , taking the prevailing conditions into account , to give his name and address and also the name and address of the owner and the identification marks of the vehicle ( Lee v Knapp [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 961 and Ward v Rawson [ 1979 ] Crim LR 58 ) . |
| 22 | Rincewind turned and stared at the flames racing towards them , and wondered how much of Ankh-Morpork could be bought for two hundred rhinu . |
| 23 | He turned and stared at the Manse . |
| 24 | Dorian turned and stared at the face in the picture , and suddenly he hated Basil more than he had ever hated anyone in his life . |
| 25 | He turned and stared at the pool . |
| 26 | The woman turned and looked at the speaker , and there was scorn in her expression , but she said nothing until she turned on Agnes again and said , ‘ How bad is he , lass ? ’ |
| 27 | I turned and looked at the man 's tear-stained face . |
| 28 | She paused a moment , turned and looked at the line of narrow drawers , read the label , then weighed out two ounces of loose tobacco . |
| 29 | It was so seldom that Aggie heard herself addressed by her surname that she turned and looked at the nun , but the woman 's eyelids were lowered as if in shame ; then she inclined her head towards the woman sitting behind the desk before turning and closing the door quietly behind her . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , we landed at Newcastle airport ’ — Charlie turned and looked at the men — ‘ at three o'clock ? ’ |