Example sentences of "and [verb] at the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He raised the lid and gazed at the brightly coloured pots . |
| 2 | As I stood and gazed at the now empty slit trenches , I could n't help a sinking feeling in my stomach as I pictured in my mind those who had occupied the trenches in this orchard , those who had been killed or seriously wounded . |
| 3 | Lexandro coughed and spat at the partly crippled Titan on his target-screen . |
| 4 | The shortest priced favourite can stumble and fall at the very first fence while the 100–1 outsider can achieve the ultimate glory . |
| 5 | Even if we adopt a much narrower focus and look at the specifically political institutions of the proclaimed democracies , it is plain that there is a long way to go before democratic principles are fully embodied in them . |
| 6 | Come and see celebrity cooks in action , sample foods and wines from around the world and look at the very latest in kitchen equipment . |
| 7 | The return route follows the Dales Way and involves a bit of road walking , but since the road is a backroad and sees at the most two or three cars a day , it is a pleasant way of returning . |
| 8 | We ran into the warm waves like little children , and swam and did duck dives and looked at the strangely corrugated sand under the water , and kept an eye open for jellyfish and pointed shells and silver fishes in the groves of coral that cropped up here and there along the sea bed . |
| 9 | So when we look at the grimacing gestures of a chimpanzee and wonder at the almost ludicrous parallels with our own behaviour this is just part of a whole host of behavioural and anatomical similarities that show without doubt that we ought to be classified with the apes ( we are all of us primates ) , and that we share a distant ancestor with our diminutive caricatures . |
| 10 | She remembered his hostility through the blur of last night and glared at the annoyingly attractive face . |
| 11 | The partnership — already tried and tested at the highly successful Meadowhall retail development in Sheffield — will invest DM900 million to develop the scheme on derelict land in the heart of Oberhausen , in Germany 's Ruhr Valley . |
| 12 | The Video book was never intended for broadcast ; it is made from library film footage transferred to disc and tape for video issue , and aimed at the relatively limited number of people who will want to buy or hire it . |
| 13 | This policy appears to mark the reversal of an established tradition going back nearly fifty years to the New Deal , and to strike at the most vulnerable group in the United States — the poor ( many of them black ) and the old . |