Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many claim to have had these near death ; floating near the ceiling while looking down at their dying ( or clinically dead ) physical frames . |
| 2 | Looking down at their still and silent master , the two dogs began to slink nearer until they lay down beside him , noses resting on his body . |
| 3 | got down at their own steam I suppose |
| 4 | The trouble started when around a hundred and fifty travellers arrived back at their illegal camp after a wedding . |
| 5 | Later , after a deliberately nostalgic and painful visit to St Juliot in March 1913 , he was able to look back at their early days together in ‘ At Castle Boterel ’ , ‘ Beeny Cliff ’ , ‘ The phantom horsewoman ’ , and eventually to come to terms , however imperfectly , with his memories . |
| 6 | • After several days on this schedule they will be going to bed and getting up at their chosen time , one that gives them enough sleep during the weekdays . |
| 7 | The specialists are then much easier to satisfy — providing they are given the right kind of food , they are content to sit and stare out from their cages , much as they would sit and stare out at their wild landscapes . |
| 8 | as if , in part , to fight back at their crushing fate , the Welsh families in those industrial valleys bred and grew and savoured their own with biblical fruitfulness and devotion . |
| 9 | Nodding down at their silent , unmoving burden , Chuck answered their unspoken question . |
| 10 | ‘ We are asking staff who have not been given another location to turn up at their nearest branch , where a desk and computer terminal will be provided for them . ’ |
| 11 | The pieces all on the tray , the girls looked up at their new lodger . |
| 12 | have hit out at their own fans — for idolising the ultra-cool group . |
| 13 | He looked around at their delighted faces and began to feel embarrassed . |
| 14 | Er standard one was er no trouble , except er er pretty timid , remember being timid , the boys could be very rough in play and there was much nudging in the playground as they ran about at their various games . |