Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Stormtex outer gives the jacket a fair amount of shower and wind protection ; excellent for hillwalking and hanging about at the bottom of climbs . |
| 2 | Based on an 8km circuit of the Can and Chelmer , teams could opt to race 40 or 80km and change over at the race centre as often as they liked . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 5 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 6 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 7 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 8 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 9 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 10 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 11 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 12 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
| 13 | " 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 . |
| 14 | He stopped , confused , by the bus stop opposite the Protestant Truth Society , and gazed unseeingly at the list of routes . |
| 15 | He puffed furiously on his pipe and gazed dreamily at the ceiling . |
| 16 | A man climbed to the top and gazed helplessly at the curved expanse of the copper-sheathed dome . |
| 17 | The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall . |
| 18 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
| 19 | She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees . |
| 20 | With some deliberation , he withdrew his arms from under the bedclothes and gazed tiredly at the backs of his hands . |
| 21 | Katherine lay on the bed which had become hers and gazed blankly at the ceiling . |
| 22 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 23 | He took another sip of whisky and gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling . |
| 24 | Go and sit up at the table erm Christopher . |
| 25 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 26 | A disconsolate group of climbers sitting round a kitchen table all lean forward and peer out at the iron-grey clouds rumbling past . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ( In a letter to the Zoological Society written on 10 May and read out at the scientific meeting in London on 8 October , Gould described 19 new species , 13 of which he stated he had received from Dr Bynoe of the Beagle . ) |
| 29 | Like Flynn before him , Fonda can not stay in the town he has tamed and rides out at the fade-out into the desert . |
| 30 | I called out that we were ready , but there was no answer , and when I returned to the bedroom I found her lying back full length on the bed , her eyes open and gazing up at the ceiling with that same vacant stare . |