Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall . |
| 2 | He stood at the urinal and peed fiercely at the white ceramic wall , streaked with rusty tear-stains from the corroding pipes . |
| 3 | Twenty years earlier , R. A. Butler had shared the same fate , recalling the ‘ blood curdling demands ’ made annually at the Conservative Party Conference for the restoration of corporal punishment which had ‘ quite clouded ’ his time as Chairman of the Party . |
| 4 | Wage regulation applied only at the upper limit . |
| 5 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 6 | IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC got together at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge'93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 7 | The Liberal Democrat vote sagged badly at the general election and they 'll be pleased still to hold seven council wards after this vote . |
| 8 | The air did n't feel sharply cold enough for snow , and Clare hoped it would n't rain ; she peered upward at the dull , grey sky . |
| 9 | One might think that this unpredictability would n't matter too much if it occurred only at the big bang ; after all , that was ten or twenty billion years ago . |
| 10 | In principle , this made profitable the speculative holding of stocks of goods whose price rose only at the average rate . |
| 11 | The banquet began with the usual mumbo-jumbo , except the cardinal dined alone at the high table under a rich cloth of state , his fat body almost hidden by platters of heaped delicacies , whilst all around him stood serving men to refill his goblet , replenish napkins or offer a fresh knife . |
| 12 | His lips sucked eagerly at the golden liquid . |
| 13 | Vologsky grasped desperately at the floating straw . |
| 14 | His eyes narrowed dangerously at the undisguised sarcasm in her voice |
| 15 | He peered carefully at the slim frail woman who stood so resolutely out on the porch . |
| 16 | At the top a glass cocktail bar slowly revolved , and drinkers exclaimed gaily at the changing spectacle of industrial buildings under construction . |
| 17 | Karl , his head turned steadily to his right , peered intently at the run-down flats and battered buildings and factories lining small side-streets , each and every one of which ended in that apparently insignificant , almost unobtrusive wall of grey concrete blocks . |
| 18 | Alesi , seeing Berger 's car late , moved across at the Ascari bend and collided with his team-mate . |
| 19 | Alesi , seeing Berger 's car too late , moved across at the Ascari bend and collided . |
| 20 | She dabbed ineffectually at the fine material . |
| 21 | The latter 's delight and enthusiasm were such that he insisted that Nicholas should be sent to study at Oxford University and maintained there at the royal charge ; but a month later the youth died , on his twentieth birthday . |
| 22 | She peered anxiously at the reddening bruise on Perkin 's cheek , a twin to one on mine . |
| 23 | Alexei peered ahead at the swirling vapour which shrouded the place where the bridge met the face of another building . |
| 24 | " I just do n't know why you turn me on at all , " Slater said , then peered closely at the other young man 's face and said pointedly , " Are you listening to me , Park ? " |
| 25 | She peered closely at the surrounding mass of faces , comprising ten of the cleaner or nicer-looking boys from the boarding section , who were whispering and fooling among themselves and taking little notice of her . |
| 26 | Something in his demeanour made a tremulous question form in Katherine 's mind , but it fluttered away at the distinctive sound of Violette 's infectious laugh . |
| 27 | " Sit here , near me , and let's be cosy … oh , well , perhaps just a touch , " she turned her eyes away from the bottle and gazed absently at the passing crowd until her glass was quite full . |
| 28 | Macrovision Inc , Mountain View , and Philips Electronics NV 's Philips Semiconductors came together at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show this week to announce that Philips ' new NTSC and PAL colour encoder chips will include Macrovision 's patented pay-per-view anti-copy system . |
| 29 | Professor Connor , in a fascinating paper on computers in classical studies , claims that computers came just at the wrong time , at a time when scholar 's interests were moving from textual studies to critical theory , women 's studies and the like . |
| 30 | Meredith poked mistrustfully at the colourful heap on her plate with the fork . |