Example sentences of "and [vb past] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett and Ranulf , riding abreast , stopped and gazed at the chaos . |
| 2 | That night , they sat on the ice together and gazed at the sky . |
| 3 | She bent closer to the painting and gazed at the master 's signature . |
| 4 | Bragg looked up angrily , then walked to the window and gazed at the church tower beyond . |
| 5 | She braced herself and gazed at the compass , silently begging the needle to stop wavering to and fro . |
| 6 | He sighed and gazed at the cello . |
| 7 | Carol Jackson rolled onto her back and gazed at the ceiling , aware of the movement from the adjacent room and also of the perspiration that sheathed her body . |
| 8 | He stuck the candle upright in a socket then sat and gazed at the flame , letting it mesmerize him into memory . |
| 9 | A low drone of talk hummed in the hut , and Holly lay on his back on his bunk and gazed at the roof rafters and counted the time between each fall of a water drop to his feet . |
| 10 | He lit a cigarette and gazed at the page of his book until the printed words ceased to dance about . |
| 11 | And gazed at the cross |
| 12 | She tripped , and tottered at the edge of the kerb . |
| 13 | The final element in the change of eighty four thousand pounds between years is the reduction in the committee 's budget four thousand pounds for efficiency savings , which we discussed and agreed at the meeting in September . |
| 14 | Cypriot coffee is made individually in small , long-handled pots which are wide at the base and tapered at the top . |
| 15 | She caught his attention , asked whether he was Edouard and lived at the address Cobalt had given her . |
| 16 | When Edward III of England invaded France , John went to Philip 's aid and fought at the battle of Crecy where , as R.W. Seton-Watson describes it : ‘ giving the reins of his horse to two of his companions , and shouting the battle-cry of ‘ Prague' ’ , he charged into the thick of the fray and , blind as he was , soon went down fighting ( 26th August , 1346 ) . |
| 17 | This is bright red and is extruded and flickered at the enemy when the caterpillar is disturbed . |
| 18 | I was in charge of weekly wages and organized shifts and hours , as well as keeping a check on the quantities of tomatoes brought in and weighed at the entrance of the factory . |
| 19 | Although castellated and towered at the front , the Castle is in fact a perfectly ordinary farmhouse behind the façade , and its rear elevation is plain and workmanlike . |
| 20 | Once away from the railhead , however , the army was back in the age of Napoleon and moved at the pace of horse and man . |
| 21 | He was a religious sheikh and presided at the mosque the girl 's father attended . |
| 22 | She bent down to retrieve the best china from the floor , whilst Ray picked up teaspoons with one hand and dabbed at the goat 's milk with the other holding his handkerchief . |
| 23 | She fetched antiseptic and some cotton wool , then bent towards him and dabbed at the place , a pose that brought their heads close together . |
| 24 | She took out an unexpected wisp of lace and linen , and dabbed at the nose . |
| 25 | The tall man elbowed his way past the curtain and peered at the patient . |
| 26 | So uncovered their eyes again and peered at the sun-god through their lashes . |
| 27 | Before the double dais sat a small , slight , unimpressive man who frequently could not recall , sometimes could not hear and peered at the briefing books through wire-rimmed glasses . |
| 28 | First-hog-of-summer and others ran to the palisade and peered at the forest edge . |
| 29 | He pulled the sides of the case apart and peered at the tobacco projectiles it contained , each one as potently dangerous as a Sam-7 . |
| 30 | Morton reluctantly went over , and peered at the object which Burney was indicating with his probe . |