Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Stormtex outer gives the jacket a fair amount of shower and wind protection ; excellent for hillwalking and hanging about at the bottom of climbs . |
| 2 | Based on an 8km circuit of the Can and Chelmer , teams could opt to race 40 or 80km and change over at the race centre as often as they liked . |
| 3 | He went back , took a hoe from inside the door of his house and stabbed furiously at the cabbage patch , trying to rearrange the furrows in neat order . |
| 4 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 5 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
| 6 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 7 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 8 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 9 | He stopped , confused , by the bus stop opposite the Protestant Truth Society , and gazed unseeingly at the list of routes . |
| 10 | He puffed furiously on his pipe and gazed dreamily at the ceiling . |
| 11 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
| 12 | With some deliberation , he withdrew his arms from under the bedclothes and gazed tiredly at the backs of his hands . |
| 13 | Katherine lay on the bed which had become hers and gazed blankly at the ceiling . |
| 14 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 15 | He took another sip of whisky and gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling . |
| 16 | Go and sit up at the table erm Christopher . |
| 17 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 18 | Wholesome cooking used to mean a whole lot of work … not least of it , reaching up to the grill , and scrubbing away at the oven and hotplate . |
| 19 | With its twin staircases and end steps , a Dreadnought was capable of loading and unloading simultaneously at a terminus . |
| 20 | Like Flynn before him , Fonda can not stay in the town he has tamed and rides out at the fade-out into the desert . |
| 21 | I called out that we were ready , but there was no answer , and when I returned to the bedroom I found her lying back full length on the bed , her eyes open and gazing up at the ceiling with that same vacant stare . |
| 22 | Now he must go away and I dare say I shall never see him again , ’ Joan said woefully , lagging behind despite Anne 's grumbles and gazing down at the ring . |
| 23 | I was standing motionless by the desk , and gazing vacantly at the letter , when I heard some footsteps outside the door . |
| 24 | Foinavon had been trained by Tom Dreaper in Ireland for Arkle 's owner Anne , Duchess of Westminster , but while in Dreaper 's charge had been notable mainly for his extraordinarily laid-back demeanour : in a chase at Baldoyle he was in the lead when falling at the third fence , throwing Pat Taaffe well clear , but Foinavon did not bother to scramble to his feet , preferring to remain on the ground and pick quietly at the grass beside him . |
| 25 | after a swift , furtive glance at them , jumped the ditch on the other side of the lane and made off at a run over the fen . |
| 26 | He nodded , then turned and rode away at a canter . |
| 27 | But she has this threatening jacket , a dark linen one which she can pop on over the Lycra , and it has big shoulders and big assertive buttons and nips in at the waist , and this means , ‘ Fun I may be , but business is business and I will rip your arms and legs off in the boardroom if you let me . ’ |
| 28 | I quickly learned that pointing the camera and flash straight at the glass of the aquarium did not work . |
| 29 | Bob tips in a portion of hops at the start of the boil and adds more at the end for aroma . |
| 30 | ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’ |