Example sentences of "and [vb past] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so Inchbad sat down and beamed at Fenella and said they would be interested to hear her stories and , at the same time , nodded to the waiting Fiachra Broadcrown to get the Fidchell squares ready for the Gnomes . |
| 2 | At the bottom Cranston immediately felt better , turned and beamed at Athelstan . |
| 3 | She kissed Jake 's cheek and beamed at Shiona . |
| 4 | ‘ But your father — ’ she leaned forward and whispered at Ellie . |
| 5 | Having performed my duty and wandered around the coronation hall of the fourteenth century Rathaus with its dreadful nineteenth-century frescoes on the life of Charlemagne , and gazed at Charlemagne 's marble throne in the Cathedral , it was time to sit in the sun for a while and eat an ice-cream . |
| 6 | As the campaign progressed , his rallies became increasingly visionary and evangelical as he narrowed his eyes and gazed at horizons no one else could see . |
| 7 | Dyson stopped and gazed at Jannie seriously . |
| 8 | They opened for a moment , then closed , then opened again and gazed at Marcus 's face . |
| 9 | Although mistrusting children , he showed an absorbed interest as he took the photographs and gazed at Henrietta ( fourteen ) , Samantha ( just ten ) and the baby Jacqueline ( now three and born after a long period during which Hugh had displayed a lack of interest in physical contact ) . |
| 10 | When at last he placed the phone down he turned and gazed at Joe , saying in a bewildered tone , ‘ It 's Harry ; they … they want me to go at once . ’ |
| 11 | With the continued growth of non-governmental services and initiatives in the 1970s and 1980s , not just of the ‘ established ’ kind but also of self-help and ‘ alternative ’ projects , the complexity of the task of coordination exceeded the potential of the legislation and became at times messy . |
| 12 | We must have the Doltons ’ — Martin nodded and winked at Harry — ‘ especially Rachel … |
| 13 | ‘ My goodness , so it is , ’ he said and winked at Pete . |
| 14 | Bernie laughed and winked at Ralph . |
| 15 | She smiled and winked at Marco — all this in an instant after the flare exploded and before she threw herself down , arms and legs spread wide , at the shrieking Perks below . |
| 16 | And Ranald grinned and winked at Luch . |
| 17 | Athelstan grinned and winked at Sir John . |
| 18 | ‘ Quite , ’ said Dotty , and winked at Grace in the mirror . |
| 19 | Conversely , the artist 's large ‘ Allegory of Honesty ’ , of a laurel-crowned female nude clutching a staff and two serpents and holding a hand-mirror aloft ( est. $250–350,000 ) had not the same appeal , and failed at $200,000 ( £133,333 ) . |
| 20 | I remember being with him when a drunken drug addict , brought to his door by Sgt. Hendry , broke away and lunged at Chief Fyvie bringing up his hand-cuffed wrists to strike the chief in the face . |
| 21 | When they got to the edge of the grass , Aziz turned and leered at Maisie and Robert . |
| 22 | He joined Ipswich Town , for whom he made over 150 appearances , helped them to gain League status and re-appeared at Selhurst Park with them in 1938–39 , and then again after the war . |
| 23 | The decision was discussed and agreed at board level , including the amount of space taken . |
| 24 | Concealed lighting made it seem so naturalistic that Alexandra almost expected to smell the salt and hear the cry of the seagulls which dipped and swooped at intervals around the walls . |
| 25 | For plasmid transfection , 1x10 6 HeLa cells were seeded into each well of 35-mm , 6-well tissue culture dishes in Dulbecco 's modified Eagles medium supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum , and incubated at 37°C . |
| 26 | On the day of transfection , the medium was replaced with 3 ml αMEM plus 1% FBS containing 10 µg plasmid DNA and 10 µg/ml of poly-L-ornithine ( Sigma , P3655 ) , dispensed from a 10 mg/ml sterile water stock solution , and incubated at 37°C with gentle mixing every 1.5 hours . |
| 27 | Briefly , a 15 µl urine sample was added to 250 µl of 3-Cresol ulfonphthaleinyl-N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamide and incubated at 37°C for 11 minutes . |
| 28 | Antral biopsies cultured for H pylori were inoculated onto blood agar and Skirrow 's medium and incubated at 37°C in an anaerobic environment for seven days . |
| 29 | Bethesda ) , diluted 1/500 in DMEM/10%FCS , and incubated at RT for 1 hr . |
| 30 | He agreed in part with its author , disputed the theories of many others and expanded at length on his own theory concerning the fertilisation of the date palm . |