Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 2 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 3 | Francis lifted his head above the edge of the display and found himself staring at a confusing picture of pipes and girders . |
| 4 | She asked herself which of them she should phone and found herself trembling at the thought of phoning any of them . |
| 5 | Beth shuffled her feet in the awkward silence and found herself looking at the second man more closely . |
| 6 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 7 | She stood motionless , waiting for the two to break apart , and found herself staring at the girl from whom Niall was now gently detaching himself . |
| 8 | Ruth poured cornflakes and milk , and ate them sitting at the table where Rachaela drank her coffee . |
| 9 | He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched . |
| 10 | 1991 , 27 1042 ) , prompted a childhood memory and sent me rummaging at the top of the house for 300 Things a bright boy can do , a book presented to me by some relative ca 1928 . |
| 11 | He glanced at Lambert and saw him blaze at a green-and-yellow plane , then bank hard away as tracer scorched past . |
| 12 | And did you stay at the same school through primary and secondary ? |
| 13 | The earliest experiment in New Jersey suggested that the reduction in working hours produced by relatively high tax rates was small — a 0.5-per-cent reduction in hours worked by men who received a cash supplement and had it withdrawn at a 50-per-cent tax rate . |
| 14 | He designed Horbury 's elegant Parish Church of St Peter and St Leonard , with its distinctive six-stage tower and had it built at a cost to himself of £8,000 in 1790–1794 . ’ |
| 15 | When she gave him the number he just rang off and left her staring at the phone . |
| 16 | Sherek recalled how nervous and agitated he seemed at the first reading with the actors — just as he had been when he had first shown the play to Sherek . |