Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 31 | When Betjeman failed his Divinity exams at the end of his first year , it would have been open to his tutor to plead for him with the College so that he could resit these comparatively unimportant exams and stay on at the University . |
| 32 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
| 33 | My daughter , he told himself as he brushed his teeth and stared down at number 47 's red Mitsubishi , is like me , fat and untalented . |
| 34 | He arrived at 1.30am on the first day , slept for a few hours and turned up at the clubhouse to find he was in the field . |
| 35 | She puts her fists on her hips and frowns down at him . |
| 36 | The Grand Pilier d'Angle route took two and a half days and weighed in at 6c and A4 . |
| 37 | Carry On Columbus was made in six weeks and weighs in at £2.25 million . |
| 38 | The boy rose to his feet , still gripping the banisters and staring down at the figure in the doorway . |
| 39 | Today he is more of a celebrity than an actor , making cameo appearances , commercials and turning up at premières . |
| 40 | Polly felt a blush warm her cheeks and looked down at the food . |
| 41 | Teachers who are unused to the behaviour of pupils with severely defective sight can be surprised by the way in which such children can move about within a setting in which they feel secure , negotiating stairs and corridors and moving along at speed with the stream of pupils going from room to room ; but unfamiliar settings and unexpected obstacles can cause difficulties or even be hazardous , and such hazards should be minimised . |
| 42 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | She snatched off a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and looked up at Maxim with myopic surprise . |
| 45 | The two approached sluggishly with their glasses and sat down at my table . |
| 46 | Wyn-rajathuk rubbed ash between his palms and stared down at the smear of grey lines . |
| 47 | Sean gathered up the reins and drove off at a smart pace . |
| 48 | Her first published work , The Black Riders , was originally told as bedtime stones to her four small nephews and written down at their insistence , in 1918 . |
| 49 | Learning the moves and warming up at the start of each judo session is hard work . |
| 50 | Carrie folded her arms and stared up at him as he thumbed through the ledger and took out a grease-stained sheet of paper . |
| 51 | I cradled the gun in my arms and set off at Emergency Speed , hurtling down the path back to the island at maximum , trusting to luck and adrenalin that I would n't put a foot wrong and end up lying gasping in the grass with a multiple fracture of the femur . |
| 52 | Cranston blinked to hide his tears and grinned over at Athelstan . |
| 53 | Getting out of bed , Rachel flung open the curtains and looked out at the September morning . |
| 54 | Harry tugged back the curtains and squinted out at the painful brightness of a frosty morning . |
| 55 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 56 | Gladys Brown clenched her hands and stared down at the bony knuckles . |
| 57 | He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her , then held both her hands and smiled down at her as I had not seen him smile since I mentioned her name that night in the subway . |
| 58 | So when your youngster barks and looks back at you , reassure him with a pat . |
| 59 | Dissenting Labour councillor Eddie Dryden refused to support the spending cuts and hit out at the way the proposals were presented to the Labour group prior to the meeting . |
| 60 | It had a curious history , for it miraculously survived the destruction of the Tuileries and turned up at Chislehurst in 1871 by unknown means . |