Example sentences of "and [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett and Ranulf , riding abreast , stopped and gazed at the chaos . |
| 2 | That night , they sat on the ice together and gazed at the sky . |
| 3 | She bent closer to the painting and gazed at the master 's signature . |
| 4 | Bragg looked up angrily , then walked to the window and gazed at the church tower beyond . |
| 5 | She braced herself and gazed at the compass , silently begging the needle to stop wavering to and fro . |
| 6 | He sighed and gazed at the cello . |
| 7 | Carol Jackson rolled onto her back and gazed at the ceiling , aware of the movement from the adjacent room and also of the perspiration that sheathed her body . |
| 8 | He stuck the candle upright in a socket then sat and gazed at the flame , letting it mesmerize him into memory . |
| 9 | There were three or four cinemas round here — I stood and gazed at the pictures outside and thought , ‘ Space , cowboys and sex . |
| 10 | A low drone of talk hummed in the hut , and Holly lay on his back on his bunk and gazed at the roof rafters and counted the time between each fall of a water drop to his feet . |
| 11 | He lit a cigarette and gazed at the page of his book until the printed words ceased to dance about . |
| 12 | And gazed at the cross |
| 13 | She tripped , and tottered at the edge of the kerb . |
| 14 | Suddenly one of the Zimbalan bodyguards shouted a warning and lunged at the photographers . |
| 15 | A detailed recruitment strategy has been drawn up by the National Executive Committee , which was discussed and agreed at the March Council meeting . |
| 16 | We also append the quotation from BS Computers for the supply of an Apricot Lan-Station as discussed and agreed at the January 1993 Computing Sub-Group . |
| 17 | The final element in the change of eighty four thousand pounds between years is the reduction in the committee 's budget four thousand pounds for efficiency savings , which we discussed and agreed at the meeting in September . |
| 18 | Cypriot coffee is made individually in small , long-handled pots which are wide at the base and tapered at the top . |
| 19 | She caught his attention , asked whether he was Edouard and lived at the address Cobalt had given her . |
| 20 | When Edward III of England invaded France , John went to Philip 's aid and fought at the battle of Crecy where , as R.W. Seton-Watson describes it : ‘ giving the reins of his horse to two of his companions , and shouting the battle-cry of ‘ Prague' ’ , he charged into the thick of the fray and , blind as he was , soon went down fighting ( 26th August , 1346 ) . |
| 21 | Or was it the heavy rain slapping against the windows , the wind 's eerie message as it whistled down the chimney and flickered at the flames that had begun to lick about the new-laid logs ? |
| 22 | This is bright red and is extruded and flickered at the enemy when the caterpillar is disturbed . |
| 23 | He remembered the ancient and persistent belief that once any living creature has walked in the Black Fields of Sorcery and dined at the tables of the Lords of the Dark Ireland , he is for ever lost to the true Ireland . |
| 24 | I was in charge of weekly wages and organized shifts and hours , as well as keeping a check on the quantities of tomatoes brought in and weighed at the entrance of the factory . |
| 25 | The human growled behind its gag and strained at the wires . |
| 26 | Although castellated and towered at the front , the Castle is in fact a perfectly ordinary farmhouse behind the façade , and its rear elevation is plain and workmanlike . |
| 27 | Once away from the railhead , however , the army was back in the age of Napoleon and moved at the pace of horse and man . |
| 28 | He was a religious sheikh and presided at the mosque the girl 's father attended . |
| 29 | While they were eating , a woman who had a bad name crept into the room and knelt at the feet of Jesus . |
| 30 | She bent down to retrieve the best china from the floor , whilst Ray picked up teaspoons with one hand and dabbed at the goat 's milk with the other holding his handkerchief . |