Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cedric sank happily on to the tattered hearthrug at his feet and gazed up adoringly at his new master . |
| 2 | With a little inner sigh Shiona turned to the window and gazed out thoughtfully at the loch . |
| 3 | Chapman had kept a close watch on Speirs ' feud with Bradford City , and moved in just at the right moment . |
| 4 | One night , I remember , I woke up and came down again at ten . |
| 5 | We were at different schools ; Andy was a boarder at an all-boys school in Edinburgh and came back only at weekends . |
| 6 | And then she glanced out of the main kitchen window , the one that had a partial view of the terrace ; Angelica looked as well , and saw that they had a few customers arriving and looking around uncertainly at the unstaffed deck . |
| 7 | Imagine yourself drifting on a tranquil lake one warm summer evening while the setting sun bathes an Alpine meadow ; imagine walking leisurely among scented pine woods and looking up wonderously at jagged peaks ; imagine simply strolling through a picturesque medieval town , admiring lovely gardens and sampling a range of regional gastronomic treats . |
| 8 | Yes , yes well we ca n't talk you see , we do n't know , we do n't know what 's happening , but she 's been suffering a lot with her back just now and she put that off you know that because she 's not attending the meetings , she ca n't sit , and if she comes to the meetings she ca n't sit down , she stands up , props herself against the wall and stand up right at the back so , we do n't know you see |
| 9 | He had quickly re-established his old routine of working all day in the attic and going out occasionally at night to meet anonymous friends . |
| 10 | I mean , you can go along and always think ‘ Oh there 's nothing to this ’ , but then for some reason or other somebody has a complaint 's gone a big way round and ends up right at the top , and then , of course cascading down comes the ‘ Why ? |
| 11 | Between nineteen hundred and one and nineteen hundred and six , increasing illness erm severely restricted Proust 's social engagements , and indeed because of his asthma erm he tended to stay in bed during the day , and get up only at night , though even those who do n't suffer from asthma have been known to adopt this regime for other purposes . |
| 12 | And it was just the the the people were often walking along this track , anyway there was a man , there was erm , was a , there was a man and a woman walked over to and walked back again at night , well in the the even , evening anyway . |
| 13 | He pushed past a group of waiting relatives … why people insisted on waving when the train was still so far away had always been a mystery to him … and glanced round sharply at a teenage girl who elbowed him accidentally , but painfully , in the back . |
| 14 | She nodded her agreement and glanced up proudly at her father . |
| 15 | Her minds flits about like a butterfly , settling on one thing , and flying off again at once . ) |
| 16 | The promotion race in the first division and coming up tomorrow at the County Ground , it is Swindon against Tranmere Rovers . |
| 17 | When one considers the proximity of Zurich ( so easy to go there for a show or a concert , have a meal , and arrive back home at a reasonable hour ) , the thriving variety of Winterthur 's night life is surprising . |
| 18 | He scrambled to his feet and looked round nervously at Sabrina who was closing in fast on him . |
| 19 | Victoria managed a smile , and looked up openly at Shelley from her desk . |
| 20 | She wandered back into the living-room , with its rugged stone walls and polished wood and leather , and looked out again at the darkened skies and pouring rain . |
| 21 | When we reached the road we stopped and looked down again at the little house . |
| 22 | She rose to her feet , and looked down again at the rolling hillside covered with fruit and vegetables , with grazing goats , sheep and chickens . |
| 23 | In the second half , the play was very even erm Barry Cooper away on the left , he slipped the ball to Jason Allen who scored number three , Leach had to save a high shot from Nigel Chambers who then conceded a corner doing so , the nearest as they came to scoring , and looked down just at that stage . |
| 24 | She stood in front of the mirror and looked back gravely at her shrouded image in the mirror . |
| 25 | The moment when it enters his or her head , that X was the one who did it , can thus be concealed and brought out only at the very end of the story . |
| 26 | ‘ We always wore trunks or pants when we went in the river , but just once , I stopped out to wash on one of the river beaches with nothing on , and went in just at the edge to rinse myself down . |
| 27 | She shifted from foot to foot and stared up impatiently at the gallery of offices that ran around the walls . |
| 28 | When Laura came to stay , and swept into church in an Easter bonnet of her own devising which quivered with artificial lilac , and laughed out loud at a tiny joke in Peter 's sermon , to encourage him , one of the churchwardens wrote to the Bishop . |
| 29 | Dark , olive-tinged skin , with a hint of almost Mediterranean swarthiness … thick , dark hair , straight and standing up slightly at the front , swept back and cut short round the ears … a long , wide , ‘ boxer 's ’ sort of nose . |
| 30 | Gradually , during his visits there , he began to tell her how much he had been looking forward to it , and confided how he would remember their ‘ walking the policies , ( which is what Delia Sutherland called a businesslike like across her property ) and sitting up late at night drinking brandy , discussing plans . |