Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] at " 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 | He turned to the altar again and gazed up at Paddy 's back and tried to concentrate . |
| 3 | Willie stopped and gazed up at them . |
| 4 | He just sat in his chair and gazed up at Granny 's picture in its faded gilt frame . |
| 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 | ‘ Has that any special significance ? ’ she asked bravely as she crumpled down on to the blanket and gazed up at him . |
| 12 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
| 15 | She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees . |
| 16 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 17 | Ilbrec turned and gazed down at Fand . |
| 18 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 19 | He opened his eyes and gazed down at her face . |
| 20 | Slowly he stepped across to the terrace and gazed down at her with eyes so racked with pain that Ruth 's own eyes filled to the brim with her despair and lost love . |
| 21 | WILLIAMS is arrested and led off at BELVILLE 's bidding . ] |
| 22 | There was a tongue of flame and Asa pulled back the column and levelled out at two thousand feet . |
| 23 | ( 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 . ) |
| 24 | So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot . |
| 25 | After his second day as substitute games and sports master , Bodie drove wearily to CI5 , and checked in at Forensic , then at Traffic . |
| 26 | after a swift , furtive glance at them , jumped the ditch on the other side of the lane and made off at a run over the fen . |
| 27 | He did not take it too seriously , but nonetheless he wheeled his pony and made off at speed , back towards the fringes of Clocaenog , where he had passed the last of the prince 's watch . |
| 28 | Great big thing like a huge balloon and lived out at Ness and I mind me mother coming and getting us early and this great big thing come over . |
| 29 | PS Taped the English Soccer on ‘ Sports CHannel Ohio ’ last night and got up at 6:15 to watch the highlights before going to work . |
| 30 | And got up at four . |