Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Sit here , near me , and let's be cosy … oh , well , perhaps just a touch , " she turned her eyes away from the bottle and gazed absently at the passing crowd until her glass was quite full . |
| 2 | A man climbed to the top and gazed helplessly at the curved expanse of the copper-sheathed dome . |
| 3 | The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall . |
| 4 | Of course she could , she told herself , clenching her fists and gazing unseeingly at the distant mountain-tops . |
| 5 | The dawg will diverge from the node at the end of the head string , and converge again at the first node of the tail string . |
| 6 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 7 | He stood at the urinal and peed fiercely at the white ceramic wall , streaked with rusty tear-stains from the corroding pipes . |
| 8 | The latter 's delight and enthusiasm were such that he insisted that Nicholas should be sent to study at Oxford University and maintained there at the royal charge ; but a month later the youth died , on his twentieth birthday . |
| 9 | How he must have stared through the grid at freedom , and squinted hopelessly at the waxed wingnuts securing the gate of his oubliette . |
| 10 | She clattered back to her office and pounded away at the audio letters for an hour and a half , broken only by a trip to the kitchen for coffee . |
| 11 | But he did not know himself what it was and the impossibility of explaining made him turn his head at last and look across at the bright , rectangular picture Doyle was holding out . |
| 12 | I tilted the bottle against my finger and sniffed again at the clear residue , wondering what to do , then ( nothing ventured , nothing gained ) , rubbed my wet finger round my gums . |
| 13 | That she still believed in Allah and prayed regularly at the nearby mosque . |
| 14 | Carrie leaned on the table and looked closely at the middle-aged man sitting facing her . |
| 15 | Cadfael kneeled behind the dead man 's shoulders , and looked closely at the indented wound , in which white points of bone showed in the centre of the encrusted blood . |
| 16 | The Trunchbull flicked her head round and looked carefully at the small girl with dark hair and deep brown eyes sitting in the second row . |
| 17 | When Sara awoke and looked outside at the deep cloudless blue sky , she guessed that her hostess was also scanning it with equal pleasure . |
| 18 | McAllister finished the right front of the coatee , as Matey called it , cast off , and looked again at the half-grandfather clock with a sigh . |
| 19 | Now he sat up in bed and looked eagerly at the different handwritings . |
| 20 | The feathers of her hat were again sitting in the dregs of Maxie 's coffee , so she hastily retrieved it and looked mournfully at the damaged plumage . |
| 21 | The Protestant reformers wanted to return as far as possible to the spirit of primitive Christianity and looked askance at the mystical tradition which seemed to have no warrant in Scripture . |
| 22 | Two of the girls were terrified and looked pleadingly at the third ; so Roksanda gathered up the precious stones . |
| 23 | policeman and looked sideways at the Russian troops . |
| 24 | The driver , a slight figure in a tweed jacket and grey flannel trousers , got out and looked across at the two women before turning to rummage behind the front seat and extract a bulky briefcase and an armful of files . |
| 25 | They had emerged into the street and looked across at the overalled figure and the patch of wall on which he was working . |
| 26 | Well before noon , beside a small church whose roof sagged under clumps of grass and willow-herb , they came to the bridge over to Grandtully and looked across at the dense little settlement , lumpish houses made of undressed river boulders with brown smoke streaming through their heather thatch , hovels of branches littered through the trees , a few solid cottages with level roof-trees . |
| 27 | Benin moved to the writing desk and stared absently at the framed family photograph then turned back to Werner . |
| 28 | Evelyn trailed back into the scutching room and stared hopelessly at the huge basket . |
| 29 | Not totally sure she actually wanted to illuminate what she already knew she was going to find , she snapped down the switch and stared disagreeably at the glistening drops that plopped relentlessly on to the dresser . |
| 30 | Cranston breathed , and stared pityingly at the white-hooded faces . |