Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 2 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 3 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 4 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 7 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 8 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
| 11 | She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees . |
| 12 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 13 | ( 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 . ) |
| 14 | Small mesh stiff netting from the garden centre , suitably stretched and weighed down at the edges is another method . |
| 15 | When I take two and found out at the end of it there was a bit of erm Die Hard cos they 're a bit at this . |
| 16 | At the foot of the mound they halted and peered up at the statue , eerie under its glaze of ice , which stared sightlessly far above their heads . |
| 17 | Chuck hesitated and peered out at the teeming streets of Cholon , which they were entering . |
| 18 | He affixed a small jewellers ' eyeglass to his eye , and peered in at the device 's workings more closely . |
| 19 | Then I opened my fingers wide and peered down at the floor . |
| 20 | Francis stopped and peered down at the complex of buildings . |
| 21 | The Doctor snapped out of his reverie and peered down at the Cell , still clasped in Bernice 's grip . |
| 22 | The trainer leaned over me and peered down at the leg . |
| 23 | Then she paused and peered down at the writhing thread . |
| 24 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 25 | That afternoon , while the same wind , now freshened , still blew across the island and off into the North Sea , Esmerelda and I went out as usual , and stopped off at the shed to pick up the dismantled kite . |
| 26 | Once inside the house , Hari lit the candle and sank down at the table , her eyes heavy with tiredness and unshed tears . |
| 27 | Indraugnir howled and lashed out at the Bloodthirster with renewed fury , using the last of his fading strength to keep the Blood God 's follower at bay . |
| 28 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |
| 29 | Then she put on a white crash helmet , climbed into her kart and roared off at the Playscape circuit in Clapham , South London . |
| 30 | Corbett narrowed his eyes and squinted up at the sky . |