Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He stopped , confused , by the bus stop opposite the Protestant Truth Society , and gazed unseeingly at the list of routes . |
| 3 | He puffed furiously on his pipe and gazed dreamily at the ceiling . |
| 4 | Katherine lay on the bed which had become hers and gazed blankly at the ceiling . |
| 5 | He took another sip of whisky and gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was standing motionless by the desk , and gazing vacantly at the letter , when I heard some footsteps outside the door . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I quickly learned that pointing the camera and flash straight at the glass of the aquarium did not work . |
| 10 | Bob tips in a portion of hops at the start of the boil and adds more at the end for aroma . |
| 11 | We could have come over to Bruges in the evening and dined together at the Duc de Bourgogne . ’ |
| 12 | as if on cue , they heard footsteps on the back stairs at that moment , and Tom himself entered the kitchen after crossing the back porch and knocking briefly at the door . |
| 13 | With mounting excitement which neither betrayed they moved over to the desk and peered intently at the blotter . |
| 14 | One or two of the braver spirits moved closer to the road and peered across at the grass . |
| 15 | Born deaf , and educated partly at the Langside Institution , Glasgow and partly at William Van Praagh 's Oral School in London , George Edward was a fine designer of silver cups , challenge shields and the like , and also a fine yachtsman who won many trophies in his racing yachts Osprey and Majel . |
| 16 | The six steel sheets were inserted into the two widest sides of the trench and bolted together at the top , forming a curved tunnel . |
| 17 | The remaining three peaks of the west ridge ( Loughshannagh , Carn and Muck ) are not especially exciting , but below the ridge to the east is a broad shelf containing the beautiful little lake of Lough Shannagh and ending abruptly at the top of the Ben Crom cliffs . |
| 18 | He drew the sword out and prodded again at the wizard , who was rigid with terror and guilt . |
| 19 | This one was thick and protuberant , and bent unexpectedly at the top : it looked like a cross between a penis and a corkscrew , and the little group looked at it as if wondering who would dare be first to point this out . |
| 20 | A ripe melon will smell sweet , and yield slightly at the stalk end . |
| 21 | ‘ The wiseacres of the village ’ , so Joseph Cottle heard from Coleridge , ‘ had … made Mr. W. the subject of their serious conversation ’ and concluded that a man so given to wandering the hills at late hours ‘ like a partridge ’ , and looking strangely at the moon , must either be a conjuror , a smuggler , or worst of all ‘ a desperd French jacobin ’ who was spying out the ground for a French invasion . |
| 22 | She saw that the leader of the religious group had separated himself from the majority and was standing near to the sea 's edge and looking directly at the horizon . |
| 23 | I 've had some armchairs brought in and put there at the window in case you want to talk to people more informally than around the table . ’ |
| 24 | And then — ’ he ran a harsh finger along the gash in his nose , and gestured impatiently at the paper in her hand ‘ — the rug gets pulled out from underneath me . ’ |
| 25 | She folded her arms and frowned briefly at the memory . |
| 26 | Killion felt her watching , and sawed clumsily at the bird . |
| 27 | The trail continues to another section of forest at Mullaghfad , leading out of the forest onto a road and ends nearby at the Glenoo Bridge over the Colebrooke River on the boundary between Co Fermanagh and Co Tyrone . |
| 28 | No , they ran across the top of the water and hammered desperately at the air with their wings and then , just when it was obvious they were n't going to achieve anything , they suddenly did ; the water dropped away and there was just the slow creak of wings pulling the goose up into the sky . |
| 29 | I enter the day and date in my diary and look again at the entry of the 12th June . |
| 30 | Immediately they stop talking and look anxiously at the door . |