Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] at the [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 | ( 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 . ) |
| 7 | Chuck hesitated and peered out at the teeming streets of Cholon , which they were entering . |
| 8 | Then she paused and peered down at the writhing thread . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |
| 11 | Harry tugged back the curtains and squinted out at the painful brightness of a frosty morning . |
| 12 | It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky … |
| 13 | It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky … |
| 14 | Tom stopped at the corner of the small road near the corset shop and glanced down at the tiny alleyway where the artist 's shop stood . |
| 15 | Then she paused and lifted the pillow and glanced down at the offending garments . |
| 16 | Robyn swallowed and glanced out at the pouring rain , glanced at him , at the carved , arrogant profile that irked and thrilled her all at the same time and then at the rain again . |
| 17 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 18 | She opened her door and waved up at the smiling figure on the stair . |
| 19 | Finds at the south Iranian site of Shahr-i Sokhta , as well as much further afield in Egypt , suggest that lapis lazuli was circulated in the form of lumps and worked up at the various centres . |
| 20 | She paused outside the villa , and looked round at the dark hills against the starry sky . |
| 21 | Cissy Salt , her baby face hard and cold as a coin , stood back from the couch and looked round at the trembling tearful group . |
| 22 | Berdichev huffed impatiently and looked up at the overhead camera . |
| 23 | Cranston stepped back and looked up at the lead-paned windows . |
| 24 | She paused and looked up at the small gentle fields for the placid yellow outline of the Jersey cow . |
| 25 | He stretched , cracking muscles , and looked up at the small window above the high altar , pleased to see it would be a fair day . |
| 26 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
| 27 | She lay on the grass , beside him , and looked up at the blue sky . |
| 28 | However , ’ he stamped his feet and looked up at the darkened mass of the church , ‘ no one , not even in Southwark , can be that degenerate . |
| 29 | He began to tremble as he stepped through the door and looked up at the dim stairway which climbed steeply out of the bare and musty hall . |
| 30 | She paused at the bottom of the wide stone staircase and looked up at the heavy doors of the church which had been drawn back and allowed a partial view of the dark interior of the building . |