Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Stormtex outer gives the jacket a fair amount of shower and wind protection ; excellent for hillwalking and hanging about at the bottom of climbs . |
2 | Based on an 8km circuit of the Can and Chelmer , teams could opt to race 40 or 80km and change over at the race centre as often as they liked . |
3 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
4 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
5 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
6 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
7 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
8 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
9 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
10 | Go and sit up at the table erm Christopher . |
11 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
12 | Like Flynn before him , Fonda can not stay in the town he has tamed and rides out at the fade-out into the desert . |
13 | I called out that we were ready , but there was no answer , and when I returned to the bedroom I found her lying back full length on the bed , her eyes open and gazing up at the ceiling with that same vacant stare . |
14 | Now he must go away and I dare say I shall never see him again , ’ Joan said woefully , lagging behind despite Anne 's grumbles and gazing down at the ring . |
15 | after a swift , furtive glance at them , jumped the ditch on the other side of the lane and made off at a run over the fen . |
16 | But she has this threatening jacket , a dark linen one which she can pop on over the Lycra , and it has big shoulders and big assertive buttons and nips in at the waist , and this means , ‘ Fun I may be , but business is business and I will rip your arms and legs off in the boardroom if you let me . ’ |
17 | Small mesh stiff netting from the garden centre , suitably stretched and weighed down at the edges is another method . |
18 | When I take two and found out at the end of it there was a bit of erm Die Hard cos they 're a bit at this . |
19 | She 'd got the job after being made redundant and signing on at the job centre . |
20 | At the foot of the mound they halted and peered up at the statue , eerie under its glaze of ice , which stared sightlessly far above their heads . |
21 | He affixed a small jewellers ' eyeglass to his eye , and peered in at the device 's workings more closely . |
22 | The trainer leaned over me and peered down at the leg . |
23 | Then I opened my fingers wide and peered down at the floor . |
24 | The Doctor snapped out of his reverie and peered down at the Cell , still clasped in Bernice 's grip . |
25 | Francis stopped and peered down at the complex of buildings . |
26 | Then they built a sand-castle with ramparts and a moat and turrets , and stopped off at a café on their way home and treated themselves to a delicious cream tea . |
27 | That afternoon , while the same wind , now freshened , still blew across the island and off into the North Sea , Esmerelda and I went out as usual , and stopped off at the shed to pick up the dismantled kite . |
28 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
29 | After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel . |
30 | Once inside the house , Hari lit the candle and sank down at the table , her eyes heavy with tiredness and unshed tears . |