Example sentences of "and [vb past] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard .
2 She sat there , her feet on tiptoe , just reaching the black and white floor , and gazed at the glazed bumps of the linen towel hanging from a hook on the back of the door , the little wash-basin shaped like a scallop shell , the black and white edging of the tiles above .
3 He walked into the lobby without a word , entered the kitchen and gazed at the four prisoners .
4 When I made no response he turned and gazed at the far line of coral reef that was marked by a fret of white breaking water .
5 Victoria , oddly quenched , sat at Aunt Margaret 's feet and gazed at the shifting patterns in the fire , singing to herself a wordless , keening song .
6 Helen leaned over my shoulder and gazed at the long lines of boy scouts , girl guides , ex-servicemen , with half the population of the town packed on the pavements , watching .
7 She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top .
8 Nevertheless they mounted and rode at a good trot up the great road towards the north .
9 We all worked and lived at the same place and it seemed pretty cool to me at the time , but it started to become more and more negative until it got to the point where I wanted to leave … and I realised that they would n't let me !
10 The deepest area is a central depression some 2500km long and 1500km wide , surrounding the North Pole and oriented at a right angle to Greenland ( Figure 5.2 ) .
11 The main problem with MI6 at the time was that all the senior people were amateurs who had joined MI6 only because they had gone to the right school , wore the right sort of tie and dined at the right clubs .
12 She ran her lithe tongue over the helmet of his quivering rod , and sucked at the trembling shaft like an angel from heaven .
13 Springing up , he took two steps across to it and peered at the glazed array of schoolboy faces .
14 He tore open the cupboard door and peered at the tiny porthole of glass on the front of the central heating boiler .
15 Sims took out a jeweller 's eyeglass and peered at the tiny negatives .
16 He frowned deeply and peered at the narrow line of black and white spaces hanging in the air in front of him .
17 They both knelt on the carpet and peered at the large magazine , turning the pages .
18 The Weasel stepped up to the horse and peered at the dishevelled figure .
19 Finally the iron pin would be attached to the hinge fitting , pointed at the catch-plate and coiled at the other end to form a spring hinge .
20 He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones .
21 The Archon ignored him , stood up and shouted at the disappearing figure .
22 He took the wheel after that and drove at a furious speed back to San José , where he turned right on to the Pan-Am .
23 He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead .
24 ‘ No , your Grace , for when he mustered what force he had left and drove at the Welsh knights , he could both ride and fight , and so did , and well .
25 Turning to football , the West Indies have done nothing on an international scale , though the game is popular and played at a domestic level .
26 Frankie narrowed his eyes and squinted at the bloody object lying between her powerful front paws .
27 I enjoyed and suffered at the same time . ’
28 Petion saw her go from the corner of his eye , and fired at the crouching figures on the freighter 's deck with grim determination .
29 Delaney shook Lawton by the hand , and nodded at the other faces , regarding them levelly .
30 In 1984 , radio astronomers from Columbia University identified electro-magnetic vortices in our Milky Way and arrived at a similar conclusion to the theories of Alfven and Perratt .
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