Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With some deliberation , he withdrew his arms from under the bedclothes and gazed tiredly at the backs of his hands . |
| 2 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 3 | Small mesh stiff netting from the garden centre , suitably stretched and weighed down at the edges is another method . |
| 4 | He was clean-shaven , in the Norman manner , leaving open to view a face broad at brow and well provided with strong and shapely bone , a lean jaw , and a full , firm mouth , long-lipped and mobile , and quirking upward at the corners to match a certain incalculable spark in his eye . |
| 5 | BLUE PLANET 's sensational photography explores continents and oceans , and looks too at the forces that influence our environment : storms , volcanoes , earthquakes , typhoons and , perhaps the most powerful of all , Mankind . |
| 6 | He put on his glasses , walked over to the windows , and peered closely at the titles of the books . |
| 7 | Doyle put his foot down and drove straight at the men . |
| 8 | And I 'd stand there , easing my aching back , and looking up at the stars . |
| 9 | Sammy stood on the mat shaking his fur by the open door and looking out at the sheets of rain that were now whipping across the graveyard . |
| 10 | Lacuna interrupted him , and gestured wildly at the screens . |
| 11 | A crow perched on it while they watched , and poked hopefully at the sockets . |
| 12 | Then he remembered his mother and Stefan and made himself go back and look up at the bodies till he did n't mind any more . |
| 13 | It could well become agitated at the dispersal of the pigeons , turn its head towards the lights , and bark heatedly at the roadworkers . |
| 14 | The yellowish horns are of medium length , growing outwards and then curving slightly forwards in the bull , and finer and well spread in the cow , whose horns grow in various directions but preferably level and turning upwards at the tips , which are black . |
| 15 | Yet the incident may have been deliberately provoked : some of the demonstrators were armed , and fired back at the police . |
| 16 | He had a pale face , deep blue eyes , hair darker and straighter than hers , and a mouth which curved and turned up at the corners in an almost feminine way . |
| 17 | He was happier with this , though , than with his rather over-pan-fried John Dory , which was dry and turned up at the edges . |
| 18 | Here we see the usual linen winding-sheet , parted to show not only the face but the entire body , with the arms placed at his side and turned in at the elbows so that the hands meet over the groin . |
| 19 | ‘ I am happy to have afforded you amusement , ma'am , ’ he said ironically , and turned in at the gates of the Lodge . |
| 20 | She bent her head and scrubbed furiously at the plates . |
| 21 | I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house . |
| 22 | I stand in front of it and look up at the lights . |
| 23 | You may find it helpful to read these items first , and then go back and look carefully at the explanations underneath . |
| 24 | Creggan saw Minch staring intently out into this nothingness , and then drop forward to the front of her cage and look fixedly at the benches , and at the harmless litter bin which Woil had used as a stance during his brief escape . |
| 25 | In the 50th minute Logan made amends when he burst on to Stewart 's pop-up pass and touched down at the posts for the stand-off to convert . |
| 26 | He took a deep breath and glanced round at the giants . |
| 27 | He slipped quietly in and glanced up at the windows and walls until his attention was drawn to a mop of fair hair sticking out from behind one of the back pews . |
| 28 | She ran a hand through her hair and glanced up at the fighters again , one arm linked through Plummer 's . |
| 29 | Sarah carried it carefully , but when she entered the dining room and glanced across at the guests she almost dropped it . |
| 30 | Float on my back a bit and stare up at the stars . ’ |