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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He put on his glasses , walked over to the windows , and peered closely at the titles of the books . |
| 5 | Doyle put his foot down and drove straight at the men . |
| 6 | Lacuna interrupted him , and gestured wildly at the screens . |
| 7 | A crow perched on it while they watched , and poked hopefully at the sockets . |
| 8 | It could well become agitated at the dispersal of the pigeons , turn its head towards the lights , and bark heatedly at the roadworkers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She bent her head and scrubbed furiously at the plates . |
| 11 | You may find it helpful to read these items first , and then go back and look carefully at the explanations underneath . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sarah carried it carefully , but when she entered the dining room and glanced across at the guests she almost dropped it . |
| 14 | Was this what the murderer had done , leaving fingerprints which were by now enlarged and recorded and locked away at the police station , waiting to be produced at the trial ? |
| 15 | A few yards away he noticed a couple of unsympathetic men raising the lid of the Luggage and pointing excitedly at the bags of gold . |
| 16 | Or should he sit back in his chair and smile calmly at the idiocies of mankind ? |
| 17 | Denis noticed that his uncle , sitting about three seats ahead of him was coughing more than usual , and glaring openly at the briars either side of him . |
| 18 | Maggie walked out on to the balcony and looked across at the mountains . |
| 19 | Or Munni , a slum dweller in Delhi , arrested with 11 others and kept overnight at a police station where she was stripped and beaten . |
| 20 | I was arrested on a Wednesday and kept overnight at the police station and questioned . |
| 21 | and then you come up and turn left at the florists |
| 22 | The Curator did not see the look in Mr Wolski 's eyes as he glanced back to the window and stared again at the wolves outside , who had turned to face the icy wind with narrowed yellow eyes . |
| 23 | Tess went inside the ancient church and stared sadly at the tombs of her ancestors . |
| 24 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 25 | However , one major difference has been that the mind of an individual develops with time and becomes better at the tasks it undertakes , whereas computers , with certain limited exceptions , perform at the same level of ability until replaced by a better machine or a better program . |