Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once away from the railhead , however , the army was back in the age of Napoleon and moved at the pace of horse and man . |
| 2 | He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead . |
| 3 | Benedict took the card and glanced at the name . |
| 4 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 5 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 6 | He opened his eyes and glanced at the clock beside his bed . |
| 7 | Frankie narrowed his eyes and squinted at the bloody object lying between her powerful front paws . |
| 8 | Ronni opened her eyes and stared at the moon , feeling her poor heart quiver inside her . |
| 9 | He narrowed his eyes and stared at the distant wall of the Tower . |
| 10 | Nell raised her eyes and looked at the rest of the body ; and caught her breath . |
| 11 | She shut her eyes and tugged at the rope , sending the boat soaring high up over the scruffy , stinking little fair and the bare-headed people and the wide , comfortable , pleasure-loving river . |
| 12 | Ronni looked into his eyes and smiled at the compliment , inwardly shuddering as he took her in his arms and proceeded to lead her in time to the music . |
| 13 | She slammed back the driving seat and looked at the unfamiliar dashboard with all its foreign signals . |
| 14 | In her parent 's garden in Brentwood , little Marisa Leicester stood beside her Optimist and smiled at the 30 cameramen . |
| 15 | He went and got his overcoat and put it on over his pyjamas and sat at the table smoking a cigarette . |
| 16 | Dönitz adjusted his glasses , took the first sheet of paper from the file , opened his mouth and bawled at the microphone as though it was the furthest sailor on the longest parade ground in the Third Reich . |
| 17 | Aaron sat on the roof and stared at the sky . |
| 18 | Hari made tea and sat at the table , her hands curled around the warmth of the cup . |
| 19 | He followed her , but stopped in the living room doorway and looked at the room . |
| 20 | I lay there on the couch and shuddered at the very thought . |
| 21 | I sat by the fire and read the file twice , then I went back into the kitchen , made myself some more tea and a chicken sandwich and sat at the table , eating the sandwich and thinking about things . |
| 22 | The dominant cultures have very often not understood their ways , have gaped at their nakedness and laughed at the rituals they do not understand . |
| 23 | She sat in her study and stared at the telephone . |
| 24 | In 1880 he became a deacon of the Episcopal Church in Scotland ; in 1881 he was ordained priest and served at the church of St John the Evangelist , Edinburgh . |
| 25 | ‘ They still could not make the dogs let go and so they got in their car and drove at the dogs with headlights flashing , ’ said a Scotland Yard spokesman . |
| 26 | He went up on the left of me , sliced back in front of my car and dived at the inside of Niki from way too far back … |
| 27 | Then she got the photographs out of her handbag and looked at the view of the swimming-pool . |
| 28 | The detective , whose name and rank have not been given , is a member of the Essex force and worked at the Brentwood office of the No 5 Regional Crime Squad , covering a large area of East Anglia and the South-east . |
| 29 | Maybe he needed some moral support : I jumped up onto the fence and glared at the woman . |
| 30 | He put a supporting arm round Farquhar 's shoulders and grinned at the men rowing only hard enough to hold the ship steady . |