Example sentences of "and [vb past] [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 | He stood at the urinal and peed fiercely at the white ceramic wall , streaked with rusty tear-stains from the corroding pipes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | How he must have stared through the grid at freedom , and squinted hopelessly at the waxed wingnuts securing the gate of his oubliette . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That she still believed in Allah and prayed regularly at the nearby mosque . |
| 10 | Carrie leaned on the table and looked closely at the middle-aged man sitting facing her . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When Sara awoke and looked outside at the deep cloudless blue sky , she guessed that her hostess was also scanning it with equal pleasure . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now he sat up in bed and looked eagerly at the different handwritings . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | policeman and looked sideways at the Russian troops . |
| 19 | They had emerged into the street and looked across at the overalled figure and the patch of wall on which he was working . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Benin moved to the writing desk and stared absently at the framed family photograph then turned back to Werner . |
| 22 | Evelyn trailed back into the scutching room and stared hopelessly at the huge basket . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Cranston breathed , and stared pityingly at the white-hooded faces . |
| 25 | Remembering just in time that this heartless cynic was responsible for getting her out of the clutches of the Gibraltar Police and Customs Service , Polly managed to bite back the caustic retort trembling on the tip of her tongue and stared blankly at the vast selection of starters and main courses . |
| 26 | He settled by the window and stared across at the red brick Communist club beyond the budding trees . |
| 27 | She brushed aside a wisp of hair which had slipped down over her face and smiled placatingly at the florid-faced docker leaning forward over the tea-stained counter . |
| 28 | Priced at about £20,000 and aimed mainly at the American market , the expedition promises not only the now commonplace deluxe basecamp and satellite telephone links , but a 24-hours service , complete with VDE , providing constant information about share price movements on Wall Street . |
| 29 | Tasman , with the face and physique of a circus strong man , brought his largest parang on deck and glowered warily at the passing island . |
| 30 | Without any regard for his own safety , Andrews climbed onto a wing of the blazing plane , and kicked frantically at the toughened perspex of the cockpit canopy until it shattered , then dragged out the semi-conscious pilot . |