Example sentences of "and [verb] at the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years ago , the cabinetmaker John Nethercott and his wife Annie stood in the drizzle and gazed at the leprous grey hulk of Upper House , Discoed . |
| 2 | Joseph fingered his rifle and gazed at the pretty little muntjac . |
| 3 | We have a mission to widen access to higher education and to teach and research at the highest possible level . |
| 4 | Liddell graduated from Edinburgh University a few days later ( 17 July ) , and enrolled at the Scottish Congregational College in Edinburgh to read divinity for a year , for he had long since decided to devote his life to missionary work , like his parents . |
| 5 | He dipped the cotton wool in the water and dabbed at the livid puffy eyes . |
| 6 | Cardiff saw its wildly thrashing and monstrous arms , beating and tearing at the dented grey metal of the cabinet . |
| 7 | He passed Caballeros and Bugner as they were holing out at the 15th and driving at the short 16th . |
| 8 | So I was looking at the slide sitting on the strings , and looking at the major third on the fretboard , and then I said , ‘ If only I could get this note here . ’ |
| 9 | Stepping back and looking at the other two nuns , the Mother Superior said , ‘ Take her to her cell . ’ |
| 10 | A short mile further on , the road passes over the stream , Ais Gill , issuing from the impressive limestone confines of White Kirk , hidden by the railway viaduct and unseen and unsuspected from the road which continues uneventfully down the valley and arrives at the compact little community of Outhgill . |
| 11 | These procedures thus allow errors to be established and corrected at the earliest possible time . |
| 12 | It then crossed the Indian Ocean and rounded Australia and arrived at the small purpose-built port of Tokai northeast of Tokyo in early January . |
| 13 | And look at the twenty year-old Blues Saraceno featured in this very issue ; I 've seen him play and he 's tremendous . |
| 14 | Though she was stiff and slightly sore , the tension that had made her talk too much , drop things , and jump at the smallest unexpected noise had completely disappeared . |
| 15 | The right to elect members on to the Executive Committee and to vote at the Annual General Meeting |
| 16 | I gagged and glanced at the two bald-pated twins : they did n't seem so terrible now but rather pathetic . |
| 17 | All I can do is lie in bed , listening to the howling wind and staring at the grey northern sky . |
| 18 | Antony turned the grill off and looked at the dark brown slices of bread . |
| 19 | She opened her hand and looked at the two silver coins . |
| 20 | Smiling , even demure , Alice accepted the tea that Mary offered to prepare out of guilt , of course ; and looked at the other two and thought : God how I hate you people . |
| 21 | He took a drink and looked at the other young man . |
| 22 | She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence . |
| 23 | He rolled over , and spread his loosened limbs in the bed , he opened windows , he went to the Tate Gallery alone and looked at the dissolving blue and gold air of Turner 's Norham Castle . |
| 24 | He gave a small dry laugh of his own — all he could manage — and looked at the small black shoe . |
| 25 | The visitor sipped his coffee and looked at the impish old man with his goatee beard . |
| 26 | The doctor punched this open and looked at the little blue face inside . |
| 27 | The means by which much of the information held and generated at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is made available to a wider audience is in the form of publications . |
| 28 | But regarding wages and hours they were all taken by the executive council and debated at the national joint committee with the employers . |
| 29 | She needed to be caressed and he caressed her , massaging and pinching at the puckered rose-pink nipples , until the heat burst into searing flame and wildfire licked over her body . |
| 30 | His will be a heavier , larger box weighing 15 to 20 pounds , capable to 4,000 colours and directed at the general commercial technical CAD/CAM marketplaces . |