Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penry Vaughan ducked his tall head through the doorway and moved to stand at the foot of the bed in the shadows beyond the arc of light from the small lamp . |
| 2 | The whole train stopped while he jumped down from the dome car and went to look at the laggard . |
| 3 | Spencer ignored Emily 's words and continued to gaze at the girl who had paused near the doorway . |
| 4 | Mahmoud gave a cry of disgust and began to beat at his legs . |
| 5 | He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue . |
| 6 | The porter fell to his knees and began to scrabble at the soft soil next to the wooden scaffold pole . |
| 7 | Carefully , almost lovingly , he pulled the instrument across his knees and began to pluck at the strings with a plectrum fashioned from tortoise-shell . |
| 8 | When she paused in her work and turned to look at him , he saw the disappointment in her dark eyes . |
| 9 | Gone are the days when a hand-painted sign advertising a ‘ Real working farm experience ’ meant the townie parents paid £10 and got to look at an old plough while their children cuddled a fat , flop-eared rabbit . |
| 10 | Fiona looked at the seating plan and said to meet at table six . |
| 11 | Mr Foxley who started in the works in 1906 , lived at Shenley and had to arise at four in the morning so as to start work at 5.30 am . |
| 12 | Miguel finished tuning the guitar and turned to look at her , obviously perturbed at the sudden anger in her voice . |
| 13 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |
| 14 | She paused in front of Barnes and Noble and pretended to look at the book display in the window . |
| 15 | When his father died in 1933 Dawson inherited the family property in Yorkshire and went to live at Hartlington Hall , but stayed there only a few years because of his frail health . |
| 16 | When they immediately reacted with their automatic alarm response of rolling up into a tight ball , the entire family promptly rolled down the slope of the hill and came to rest at the man 's feet , where he picked them up and popped them into his collecting bag . |
| 17 | He was nearing the top of the hill and turned to look at the view as an excuse for a breather . |
| 18 | He shook his head and continued to stare at the old man , but there was pleading in his voice now . |
| 19 | A ND you resist all eye contact , remembering the words of barrister Caradog Morgan who earlier this year , in defending one Victoria Carrington , freelance insurance consultant accused of assaulting two fellow passengers because they had joggled her newspaper and dared to look at her right in the face , said , ‘ There is a convention on the Underground that people do not look each other in the eye . ’ |
| 20 | 3T3 cells were grown as monolayers in flasks , collected by trypsinization and allowed to stand at 4°C for 2h before incorporation into reaggregates . |
| 21 | The log file for my GIMMS job tells me that the job reached the head of the batch queue and started to execute at 48 minutes and 56 seconds after 5 o'clock p.m. on Monday , January 4th , 1988 and ended at 49 minutes and 15 seconds past the same hour on that day . |
| 22 | He crossed to the edge of the grass and craned to look at the top of the building . |
| 23 | Recovering , Emmie seized the thin old hearthrug and began to beat at the flames . |
| 24 | Craxi vehemently denied the allegations and refused to resign at a closed meeting of the party executive on Dec. 17 . |
| 25 | But I was as susceptible as any other golfer and loved to look at new equipment . |
| 26 | For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes . |
| 27 | Fran closed her eyes , willing the frantic pounding of her pulse to slow , but when his fingers completed their slow journey and came to rest at the base of her neck she knew that he could feel every frantic beat . |
| 28 | What I do not need is to be awoken at 4 a.m. in the depths of winter , forced from my bed and summoned to gawp at an empty space where once a football stand stood . |
| 29 | Eleanor lowered her hands and turned to stare at Melissa , an expression of bewilderment on her blotched and swollen face . |
| 30 | The front of her hair was flattened by a battery of pearl clips and left to rise at the back in styrofoam peaks . |