Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 2 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 3 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 4 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 5 | She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees . |
| 6 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 7 | A disconsolate group of climbers sitting round a kitchen table all lean forward and peer out at the iron-grey clouds rumbling past . |
| 8 | ( In a letter to the Zoological Society written on 10 May and read out at the scientific meeting in London on 8 October , Gould described 19 new species , 13 of which he stated he had received from Dr Bynoe of the Beagle . ) |
| 9 | Laura sighed , leaning back on the hard bench and gazing up at the overcast sky . |
| 10 | The gulls were in good voice , however , soaring and shrieking overhead in a fickle , shifting breeze , and Harry was surprised how contented if not downright happy he felt , sitting in the shelter nearest the clock and gazing out at the white horses in the bay . |
| 11 | So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot . |
| 12 | Charles Fleming and I had a chance to look around the beautiful shops , and eat out at the RED SEA PALACE HOTEL ( pure magic by the way ) . |
| 13 | And in fact prices would seem now to be levelling off somewhat throughout the country , slowing down in the North and levelling off at the current levels in the South . |
| 14 | The work reported in this thesis was sponsored by General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation plc and carried out at the Medical Research Council 's Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge and I thank Alan Baddeley and all at the unit for making the work possible . |
| 15 | Chuck hesitated and peered out at the teeming streets of Cholon , which they were entering . |
| 16 | Then she paused and peered down at the writhing thread . |
| 17 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 18 | This lunchtime we 're missing a Co-op beer-tasting and nosh up at the excellent Dragon House Chinese restaurant in Newcastle these politicians have much for which to answer . |
| 19 | Sean gathered up the reins and drove off at a smart pace . |
| 20 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |
| 21 | I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street . |
| 22 | Now I find I 'm getting " inspired top-off-the-brain " signals and ideas while travelling in an aeroplane — at the window and looking out at the snowy cotton-wool cloud land ( no artificial stimulants ! ) . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm glad for you , ’ Jenna snapped , standing and looking down at the angry face . |
| 24 | He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building . |
| 25 | Harry tugged back the curtains and squinted out at the painful brightness of a frosty morning . |
| 26 | I lie on my back and look up at the eternal sweep of marble skies . |
| 27 | I drink my whisky and look out at the inky loch . |
| 28 | And look down at the lumpy , single bed . |
| 29 | It proved a remarkable race for Naali who had been paid by the promoters to act as a pacemaker and drop out at the halfway stage . |
| 30 | He would smile and move off at a steady pace , his friends with him . |