Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice smiled and nodded , and got up to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ she whispered , then smiled when he went very still and drew back to stare at her . |
| 3 | After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human . |
| 4 | He broke off , blushed and tried not to look at Jilly Jonathan . |
| 5 | I turned back to Lloyd and tried not to look at Beeby 's legs . |
| 6 | Luce made a sweeping gesture with one arm and tried not to wince at the pain . |
| 7 | She held out her arms and tried desperately to grab at Jones 's reins , but three quarters of a ton of racehorse hit her head-on at nearly forty miles an hour and the three went down in a heap . |
| 8 | Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room . |
| 9 | The old dog on the ground yawned and seemed almost to smile at them . |
| 10 | He stuck out his tongue and squinted down to look at it . |
| 11 | Then he paused and swivelled round to look at her . |
| 12 | Then she laid the cup down again and turned pointedly to look at him . |
| 13 | Mrs Joyce whistled in amazement and stepped back to look at Martha , her fists now buried in her wobbling hips . |
| 14 | And I had one rehearsal of two Bach pieces which were really difficult and I was com , feeling completely frantic during the break in rehearsal , and went over to look at the music and some fellow called Don bounded over to me and said , oh you ca n't be you know you sh ca n't be looking at that now , ba , la dee da dee da ! |
| 15 | I can drive a tractor , ’ he said , and went on to speculate at length on the possibilities of the English dole . |
| 16 | They had one drink — Maxim had never seen anyone order a triple Scotch before — and went on to eat at a roadside café . |
| 17 | Opening up , most managed to complete a circuit , although several ran out of fuel at that point and went down to land at once , while others landed at Hal Far . |
| 18 | On a fine spring morning the three grandsons got up early and went out to look at the bee-hives which they kept in the forest . |
| 19 | He was taken to the local police station , charged and bailed out to return at a later date . |
| 20 | As night fell Polly snipped her last snip , climbed down and stood back to look at her work . |
| 21 | ‘ Fierce public opposition , including from the workers at both yards , thwarted their plans and compelled both to pay at least lip service to keeping both dockyards open . |
| 22 | It 's one of m it 's one of my me memories I 've erm hidden , well not hidden away but tucked away to look at in |