Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] 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 | " 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 . |
| 6 | A man climbed to the top and gazed helplessly at the curved expanse of the copper-sheathed dome . |
| 7 | The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall . |
| 8 | She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees . |
| 9 | ( 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 . ) |
| 10 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 11 | He stood at the urinal and peed fiercely at the white ceramic wall , streaked with rusty tear-stains from the corroding pipes . |
| 12 | Chuck hesitated and peered out at the teeming streets of Cholon , which they were entering . |
| 13 | Then she paused and peered down at the writhing thread . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |
| 17 | How he must have stared through the grid at freedom , and squinted hopelessly at the waxed wingnuts securing the gate of his oubliette . |
| 18 | Harry tugged back the curtains and squinted out at the painful brightness of a frosty morning . |
| 19 | 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 … |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Then she paused and lifted the pillow and glanced down at the offending garments . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | That she still believed in Allah and prayed regularly at the nearby mosque . |
| 28 | She opened her door and waved up at the smiling figure on the stair . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She paused outside the villa , and looked round at the dark hills against the starry sky . |