Example sentences of "the [noun] and [pron] [verb] at " in BNC.

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1 He strolled back into the kitchen and she glowered at his departing back .
2 Ordinary psychology only takes the mind and its working at surface value .
3 The Corporal and I shouted at the Sergeant to step on it , as the explosions were getting closer .
4 They ate with a shared teaspoon out of the tin and she looked at the sardines and condensed milk now exposed between John Donne and Rosa Luxemburg .
5 " It never occurred to me till yesterday , Mr Feather , when I was sitting on the seat and she smiled at me .
6 Some of his possessions were on the top of the chest by the window and she looked at them curiously .
7 She passed Jack in the corridor and he winked at her .
8 This time the tray is brought into the room and everyone looks at it .
9 Johann left the room and I looked at Sapt .
10 Kāli chose the steeper , shorter route to the forest and we climbed at a leisurely pace , stopping occasionally to catch our breath , lurching drunkenly and bumping into each other when the gradient increased and we were too lazy to keep up our momentum .
11 After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains .
12 I handed her the drink and she smiled at me with all her splendid teeth and said , " Thank you .
13 The director , the crew and I stayed at Stromness on the Orkney mainland , in wartime too far to visit because of being at short notice for steam ; and it was an odd feeling crossing over to Hoy in the ferry , then motoring in a taxi down its eastern side to the once familiar anchorage of Gutter Sound .
14 He goes into a restaurant and he says oh the waiter erm let me see the menu and he looks at the menu and said right , he said .
15 and anyway she said that whoever the girl is , she works at the school in the day and she works at the erm
16 I asked about the baby and she looked at me as if I should know . ’
17 The adrenalin was running high for Haslemere 's final league game of the season and they began at a relentless pace .
18 We started at seven in the morning and we finished at eight at night .
19 I went on the train , there was another girl on the train and we met at Stonehouse Station .
20 ‘ I looked at the grandmother and she pointed at the baby .
21 I pushed open the door and we looked at the hole in the floor .
22 The man and I prodded at the pile of crap on the table .
23 She got me she had to kiss me on the arse she fucking she had to be there thirty seconds to get the points and I farted at about ten seconds
24 And he looked at the letter and he looked at that photograph and he thought , I ca n't .
25 Other winners of the circuit , which ran through the summer and which culminated at Woodford Wells in October , were Natasha Giles and Greg Saffrey ( both 21 and under ) , Martin Calver ( 16 and under ) , Tilly Callow and Jeremiah Brindle ( 12 and under ) .
26 It is rather a perspective that recognizes and takes full account of the reality of such crime within the world and which stands at a distance from it .
27 However , they had got me out of the way and I felt at least with a following wind a big lad would hit the ball in my direction and I might be able to do something .
28 The broken whisky-bottle neck fell to the carpet and he clutched at his chest , as if in imitation of Cardiff .
29 Alain came in as the doctor 's car left the house and he stood at the foot of the bed and regarded her sternly .
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