Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stevie , sensitive man that he was , had also picked up the atmosphere , Chris 's unusual silence and the way they avoided looking at each other . |
| 2 | They stopped shouting at each other , expecting the Headmaster to burst in on them at any moment . |
| 3 | Four months : they began to move at four months , that was what the doctor had said . |
| 4 | they went to look at some homes in Thorne , did n't they ? |
| 5 | They had stared at each other without speaking for a moment , and then she said , ‘ She deserves a five-shilling Christmas Box . ’ |
| 6 | They were also rooted in the past and in the nature of things — in the past , through the gifts of land , relics , and rights which they had received at various times ; in the nature of things through the physical separation of the British Isles from the rest of the world as an alter orbis . |
| 7 | They had stood at one set all , but Hammond held two service breaks in the third . |
| 8 | WHEN HE saw his hands in the light he flinched , and held them away from him , to avoid letting them touch any other part of his person or habit , for the right was engrained with drying blood across the palm and between the fingers , and the fingers of the left were dabbled at the tips , as if they had felt at stained clothing . |
| 9 | For example , in what was a most influential study at the time , Robert Sears , Eleanor Maccoby and Harry Levin obtained reports from the mothers of 379 5 year olds on the rearing practices they had adopted at various phases of their children 's lives . |
| 10 | They had looked at each other , disconcerted at this apparent lack of liaison , but McLeish had been reassuring : very natural that they had n't compared notes , extremely useful that he now knew how long the car had been there . |
| 11 | It had been gentle , a sweet , surprised discovering , and they had looked at each other shyly afterwards , unable to speak . |
| 12 | The steps led downwards , there were crumbling stone walls , so that they had to clutch at narrow ropes sunk into the wall at intervals . |
| 13 | They lit the candles they had brought and made their way along a passage which led out of the chamber , gazing wordlessly — he could n't remember that they had spoken at all while in there — at the arched limestone walls , at the tunnels that from time to time branched from this central artery , once into a wide gallery whose egress had been blocked by a fall of stone . |
| 14 | Not long after this , Lewis and Williams met in London , as they continued to do at irregular intervals for the next three years . |
| 15 | They stood swearing at each other , both aware that everyone was watching . |
| 16 | He straightened up , and they stood looking at each other . |
| 17 | They stood looking at each other uncertainly , then Carrie made her way to the door and he heard her going upstairs , with considerably more skill than he would be able to muster . |
| 18 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 19 | They stood looking at each other , and then he cleared his throat . |
| 20 | They sat looking at each other without speaking . |
| 21 | His sisters had curtsied to the vicar ; his brothers had gone to war in 1914 , and one of them had died at Vimy Ridge ; his father had been a farm bailiff and died in 1911 after being bitten by a horse ( misnamed Lucky ) . |