Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [vb past] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The museum man placed his fingertips together and nodded at Davide as he took trouble to explain , and the colour flowed back from Davide 's cheeks and he slipped the coin into his pocket , with its two faces that were neither mirror images of one another , nor replicas , but a false double , an inexact repeat . |
| 2 | He pulled his hands away and stared at Lord Henry with wild eyes . |
| 3 | He pushed his plate away and stared at Rodriguez . |
| 4 | Now she could feel the solid muscle of her daughter 's arms and she wanted to lean against her and draw comfort and strength ; but she pulled away and looked at Phoebe with that straight , clear , appraising look that was her hallmark . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had been looking at Mick , but turned slowly and looked at Joe , and smiling slightly said , ‘ Yes ; yes , of course . ’ |
| 7 | Alyssia sat up quickly and looked at Piers , who was staring at her with that perpetual look of lazy mockery on his face . |
| 8 | The man now moved his head slightly and looked at Millie ; then , pointing with his forefinger , he said , ‘ Further along the road there 's another gate . |
| 9 | Husband paused , cocked his head slightly and peered at George as if he were assessing his artistic value . |
| 10 | Bailey inhaled sharply and glanced at Kolchinsky , fully expecting him to reprimand her again . |
| 11 | She took the breast well and slept at night without the drops of laudanum with which the nurse had dosed the infant Benjamin when he could not sleep . |
| 12 | Pino wriggled flirtatiously and grinned at Constance , who laughed at him . |
| 13 | She stopped speaking abruptly and stared at Clare with a look of fixed terror in her eyes . |
| 14 | John must have been so angry , I know that now , he 's still angry , John did n't shout at Dad or anything , or throw a tantrum , he just stood there and looked at Dad and realized the other boys would call him a liar and what could he do ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But your father — ’ she leaned forward and whispered at Ellie . |
| 16 | He closed the door again and looked at Isabel . |
| 17 | Then he sat down in the saddle again and looked at Burun . |
| 18 | They opened for a moment , then closed , then opened again and gazed at Marcus 's face . |
| 19 | During an earlier effort the whales — which have been trapped within Scapa Flow for almost five weeks — had been shepherded to within a third of a mile of the entrance , but dived again and stayed at Scapa Flow until the later shepherding effort succeeded . |
| 20 | He laughed again and waved at Franco who stepped forward to refill their glasses . |
| 21 | Erm , yes , as you know I 'm a member of the Essex traffic group and we did state at the time there will be no looking into or no pulling down of any type of property or building , yeah , but it , erm the Council went ahead and looked at Wordsworth Road |
| 22 | She took her eyes off the road briefly and glanced at Nicola . |