Example sentences of "and they [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're all at a different school all day , and they shop at different times … but you never see them in restaurants and why should n't they be ? |
| 2 | A shadow seemed to have fallen over them , perhaps a premonition that they would never see each other again , and they stared at each other as though trying to commit each other 's features to memory . |
| 3 | Rourke 's thumb was still pressed to the bell as she opened the door , and they stared at each other , he , frowning , she with an expression of wary mistrust . |
| 4 | Franca came and sat on the bed and took hold of Patrick 's hand and they looked at each other . |
| 5 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 6 | The tranquil white-washed villages were a welcome relief and they stopped at small bars and quenched their thirst with local wine and spring water . |
| 7 | The force of the blow pushed them apart , and they arrived at opposite walls simultaneously , kicked again , and met once more in the centre . |
| 8 | and he goes why were you in my , why am I in my underwear seen my pants and he goes ah , here 's a message on my knee and he goes P S Sue Carpenter and they look at each other and they go , Sue Carpenter whoooo and then the mouse traps go off and it ends with them going |
| 9 | And they nodded at each other , for all the world , Isobel thought , like a pair of well-fed penguins . |
| 10 | By that time the native peoples constituted a minority of only 30 per cent of the total population of Siberia , and they remained at that level until the end of the eighteenth century , although their own numbers increased from 288,000 in 1719 to 732,000 in 1795 . |
| 11 | I think there 's all sorts of er there 's all sorts of things that people do and they work at different levels . |