Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went back , took a hoe from inside the door of his house and stabbed furiously at the cabbage patch , trying to rearrange the furrows in neat order . |
| 2 | " 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 . |
| 3 | He stopped , confused , by the bus stop opposite the Protestant Truth Society , and gazed unseeingly at the list of routes . |
| 4 | He puffed furiously on his pipe and gazed dreamily at the ceiling . |
| 5 | A man climbed to the top and gazed helplessly at the curved expanse of the copper-sheathed dome . |
| 6 | The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall . |
| 7 | With some deliberation , he withdrew his arms from under the bedclothes and gazed tiredly at the backs of his hands . |
| 8 | Katherine lay on the bed which had become hers and gazed blankly at the ceiling . |
| 9 | He took another sip of whisky and gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling . |
| 10 | Wholesome cooking used to mean a whole lot of work … not least of it , reaching up to the grill , and scrubbing away at the oven and hotplate . |
| 11 | Of course she could , she told herself , clenching her fists and gazing unseeingly at the distant mountain-tops . |
| 12 | I was standing motionless by the desk , and gazing vacantly at the letter , when I heard some footsteps outside the door . |
| 13 | Foinavon had been trained by Tom Dreaper in Ireland for Arkle 's owner Anne , Duchess of Westminster , but while in Dreaper 's charge had been notable mainly for his extraordinarily laid-back demeanour : in a chase at Baldoyle he was in the lead when falling at the third fence , throwing Pat Taaffe well clear , but Foinavon did not bother to scramble to his feet , preferring to remain on the ground and pick quietly at the grass beside him . |
| 14 | The dawg will diverge from the node at the end of the head string , and converge again at the first node of the tail string . |
| 15 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 16 | I quickly learned that pointing the camera and flash straight at the glass of the aquarium did not work . |
| 17 | He stood at the urinal and peed fiercely at the white ceramic wall , streaked with rusty tear-stains from the corroding pipes . |
| 18 | Bob tips in a portion of hops at the start of the boil and adds more at the end for aroma . |
| 19 | We could have come over to Bruges in the evening and dined together at the Duc de Bourgogne . ’ |
| 20 | as if on cue , they heard footsteps on the back stairs at that moment , and Tom himself entered the kitchen after crossing the back porch and knocking briefly at the door . |
| 21 | He was clean-shaven , in the Norman manner , leaving open to view a face broad at brow and well provided with strong and shapely bone , a lean jaw , and a full , firm mouth , long-lipped and mobile , and quirking upward at the corners to match a certain incalculable spark in his eye . |
| 22 | BLUE PLANET 's sensational photography explores continents and oceans , and looks too at the forces that influence our environment : storms , volcanoes , earthquakes , typhoons and , perhaps the most powerful of all , Mankind . |
| 23 | With mounting excitement which neither betrayed they moved over to the desk and peered intently at the blotter . |
| 24 | He put on his glasses , walked over to the windows , and peered closely at the titles of the books . |
| 25 | One or two of the braver spirits moved closer to the road and peered across at the grass . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Born deaf , and educated partly at the Langside Institution , Glasgow and partly at William Van Praagh 's Oral School in London , George Edward was a fine designer of silver cups , challenge shields and the like , and also a fine yachtsman who won many trophies in his racing yachts Osprey and Majel . |
| 28 | The six steel sheets were inserted into the two widest sides of the trench and bolted together at the top , forming a curved tunnel . |
| 29 | The remaining three peaks of the west ridge ( Loughshannagh , Carn and Muck ) are not especially exciting , but below the ridge to the east is a broad shelf containing the beautiful little lake of Lough Shannagh and ending abruptly at the top of the Ben Crom cliffs . |
| 30 | He drew the sword out and prodded again at the wizard , who was rigid with terror and guilt . |