Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy .
2 She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky .
3 She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more .
4 She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky .
5 She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees .
6 ( In a letter to the Zoological Society written on 10 May and read out at the scientific meeting in London on 8 October , Gould described 19 new species , 13 of which he stated he had received from Dr Bynoe of the Beagle . )
7 Chuck hesitated and peered out at the teeming streets of Cholon , which they were entering .
8 Then she paused and peered down at the writhing thread .
9 Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it .
10 I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back .
11 Harry tugged back the curtains and squinted out at the painful brightness of a frosty morning .
12 Tom stopped at the corner of the small road near the corset shop and glanced down at the tiny alleyway where the artist 's shop stood .
13 Then she paused and lifted the pillow and glanced down at the offending garments .
14 Robyn swallowed and glanced out at the pouring rain , glanced at him , at the carved , arrogant profile that irked and thrilled her all at the same time and then at the rain again .
15 But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days .
16 She opened her door and waved up at the smiling figure on the stair .
17 Finds at the south Iranian site of Shahr-i Sokhta , as well as much further afield in Egypt , suggest that lapis lazuli was circulated in the form of lumps and worked up at the various centres .
18 She paused outside the villa , and looked round at the dark hills against the starry sky .
19 Cissy Salt , her baby face hard and cold as a coin , stood back from the couch and looked round at the trembling tearful group .
20 Berdichev huffed impatiently and looked up at the overhead camera .
21 Cranston stepped back and looked up at the lead-paned windows .
22 She paused and looked up at the small gentle fields for the placid yellow outline of the Jersey cow .
23 He stretched , cracking muscles , and looked up at the small window above the high altar , pleased to see it would be a fair day .
24 She lay on the grass , beside him , and looked up at the blue sky .
25 However , ’ he stamped his feet and looked up at the darkened mass of the church , ‘ no one , not even in Southwark , can be that degenerate .
26 He began to tremble as he stepped through the door and looked up at the dim stairway which climbed steeply out of the bare and musty hall .
27 She paused at the bottom of the wide stone staircase and looked up at the heavy doors of the church which had been drawn back and allowed a partial view of the dark interior of the building .
28 The coroner stamped his feet and looked up at the star-filled sky .
29 When he had finished , Bicker strode to the window and looked out at the tumbled clouds of the late day and the gathering darkness of the deserted hills .
30 And what a month it 's been , ’ mused Breeze , and she made a peep-hole too , and looked out at the sodden fields where leggy lambs were standing in groups , obviously wondering what had become of the lovely sunshine their mothers had told them about .
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