Example sentences of "and [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard . |
| 2 | And gazed at the cross |
| 3 | As I stood and gazed at the now empty slit trenches , I could n't help a sinking feeling in my stomach as I pictured in my mind those who had occupied the trenches in this orchard , those who had been killed or seriously wounded . |
| 4 | Bragg looked up angrily , then walked to the window and gazed at the church tower beyond . |
| 5 | Five years ago , the cabinetmaker John Nethercott and his wife Annie stood in the drizzle and gazed at the leprous grey hulk of Upper House , Discoed . |
| 6 | Corbett and Ranulf , riding abreast , stopped and gazed at the chaos . |
| 7 | There were three or four cinemas round here — I stood and gazed at the pictures outside and thought , ‘ Space , cowboys and sex . |
| 8 | He raised the lid and gazed at the brightly coloured pots . |
| 9 | He walked into the lobby without a word , entered the kitchen and gazed at the four prisoners . |
| 10 | When I made no response he turned and gazed at the far line of coral reef that was marked by a fret of white breaking water . |
| 11 | He stuck the candle upright in a socket then sat and gazed at the flame , letting it mesmerize him into memory . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Victoria , oddly quenched , sat at Aunt Margaret 's feet and gazed at the shifting patterns in the fire , singing to herself a wordless , keening song . |
| 14 | Joseph fingered his rifle and gazed at the pretty little muntjac . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The sergeant bumped over the sleeping-policemen and gazed at the neatly trimmed lawns and hedges with aggrieved jealousy in his eyes : the private estate was a symbol of a world from which he was excluded , a world of privilege and snobbery , a world that had turned its back on the poor , the sick and the unfashionable who had been swarming round their car only ten minutes before . |
| 17 | Helen leaned over my shoulder and gazed at the long lines of boy scouts , girl guides , ex-servicemen , with half the population of the town packed on the pavements , watching . |
| 18 | She sat there , her feet on tiptoe , just reaching the black and white floor , and gazed at the glazed bumps of the linen towel hanging from a hook on the back of the door , the little wash-basin shaped like a scallop shell , the black and white edging of the tiles above . |
| 19 | He lit a cigarette and gazed at the page of his book until the printed words ceased to dance about . |
| 20 | She braced herself and gazed at the compass , silently begging the needle to stop wavering to and fro . |
| 21 | That night , they sat on the ice together and gazed at the sky . |
| 22 | He sighed and gazed at the cello . |
| 23 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 24 | She bent closer to the painting and gazed at the master 's signature . |
| 25 | She tripped , and tottered at the edge of the kerb . |
| 26 | Suddenly one of the Zimbalan bodyguards shouted a warning and lunged at the photographers . |
| 27 | A detailed recruitment strategy has been drawn up by the National Executive Committee , which was discussed and agreed at the March Council meeting . |
| 28 | We also append the quotation from BS Computers for the supply of an Apricot Lan-Station as discussed and agreed at the January 1993 Computing Sub-Group . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Cypriot coffee is made individually in small , long-handled pots which are wide at the base and tapered at the top . |