Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Alderley gazed stupefied at his rigid back . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ he agreed before lapsing into silence , but not before she 'd seen his face reflect the pleasure he 'd experienced at her instant recognition of what was clearly one of his favourite recordings . |
| 3 | I 'd sworn at my thick sweater when I packed my bag in the Laura Ashley room , but I 'd be needing it soon . |
| 4 | I railed at the NSS typesetters and then happened to look at my own copy and saw that the mistake was entirely mine . |
| 5 | He looked north to where the City ended abruptly on the shores of the icy Baltic , then turned to smile at his personal secretary , Chang Shih-sen . |
| 6 | The proctologist shook his head then turned to look at our private scrap of paradise . |
| 7 | Sharpe , glad that he was not having to ride anywhere , began tugging at his tight boots . |
| 8 | Then Brett started laughing at my Brummy vest . |
| 9 | Basically , we decided to look at our decade-old policy on rights of way and access to open country . |
| 10 | Would he ever have got to the Olympics if every time he went to train at his local track he got swamped by the waste from a few thousand local toilets ? |
| 11 | ‘ There was plenty of flak over the target area , and I kept looking at my useless chute , yet at the same time it was treated as a huge joke by us all , with the rest of the crew saying that no way was I going down with any of them if need be ! |
| 12 | ‘ If I kept scoring at my present rate I would end up with 40 goals but you know you 're going to have a lean spell at some time . |
| 13 | Flavia Sherman was white-faced with shock but she managed to smile at her younger son as he stood up . |
| 14 | As she stared entranced at her own image , Folly felt a warming in her cheeks , and watched as a flush spread down from face to neck to breasts , dying the tender peaks a deeper hue . |
| 15 | Well not cos I felt like it but I was at the lights in Bromley this bloke , this , was stand- , sort of kept staring at my front passenger side wheel . |
| 16 | The provincial mornings managed to stay at their 1957 level , but this was already down by one third from their immediate postwar peak . |
| 17 | Looking back , Liz would try to remember the moment at which she had known rather than not known : she would have liked to have thought that she had known always , that there was no moment of shock , that knowledge had lain within her ( the all-knowing ) , that she had never truly been deceived , that at the very worst she had connived at her own deceit . |
| 18 | Ace had looked at her scarlet face and his eyes were amused . |
| 19 | The publican had looked at her several times as she offered little posies of limp flowers to customers for a penny a time . |
| 20 | Before her eyes arose a memory of how he had looked at her last night . |
| 21 | ‘ They know how to have a bath , ’ I said looking at his grubby hands . |
| 22 | I had become quite skilled with harees , that glutinous porridge of lamb and cracked wheat which I had met at my first meal bedu style . |
| 23 | There was a bit less hair on his scalp but he looked as fit as he had done at their previous brief meetings . |
| 24 | ‘ Stop messing about , ’ Rosie had said at his first attempt . |
| 25 | Just before that , however , Queen Victoria had died at her favourite home in the Isle of White , Osborne House , on 22nd , January 1901 . |
| 26 | Leith got started on her work , doubting very much that they would so much as catch a glimpse of their new ‘ colleagues ’ , but she had to smile at his quaint terminology for the higher ranks . |
| 27 | Meanwhile Queen Charlotte had asked to be the dedicatee of some of Mozart 's works which Leopold duly had engraved at his own expense ( K.10–15 , sonatas for keyboard and violin or flute and 'cello , published as op.III ) . |
| 28 | Although he might have decided to forget the way they had clashed at their last meeting , she had no doubt that Luke 's misgivings were still there . |
| 29 | You only had to look at her greasy black hair , her insolent stare and her creased and spotted uniform . |
| 30 | Erm Isaac Azimov writes er , rather amusingly about this , he says why did , why did Weismann bother , he said Weismann was Jewish , of course , Weismann knew that since time immemorial , er , Jewish little boys have been having their foreskins chopped off , Weismann only had to look at his own children , when they were born , to see that even Jewish little boys are born with foreskins . |