Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would you like to go down and look at the inscriptions on the slabs ? ’ |
| 2 | Now he knelt down and looked at the dead girl curiously . |
| 3 | Remembering a detail with sudden clarity , Charles knelt down and looked at the left-hand side of the front bumper . |
| 4 | She knelt down and stared at the smaller words below it . |
| 5 | Colonel with a K the this band , they used to , that they had from the tenth replacement depot used to come down and play at the Town Hall , and they they like I said before they were fellas on the way to join Glen the absolute ultimate musicians of America and it was why I 'm still today erm I 've got a big collection of jazz records and have always been interested in the big band sound . |
| 6 | Part-ex and all the rest of it , did the deal , negotiated , and said right what we want to do , is Saturday morning , she thinks she 's going to come down and look at a decent second-hand one , and I want you to take the part , take the brand new car off and all the rest of it , and then say take that one for a test drive , which is mine , all taxed up and gassed up and all the rest of it , and we 'll disappear in the moonlight . |
| 7 | Something on the ground caught his eye and he bent down and looked at a small print in the soft earth . |
| 8 | Short hair stands out when gelled at the roots . |
| 9 | I flew down and looked at the computer screens to see what was written on them , and they all said in huge letters … |
| 10 | Today I had three of them in the back of Armstrong , the ideal vehicle for such a job as a cab was unlikely to get moved along or clamped at a delicate , or indelicate , moment . |
| 11 | For all of these day-rate jobs a time book was kept and wages were reckoned up and paid at the end of the month . |
| 12 | So when we actually got out there , we go out to work in some capacity or another , either to carry out a survey of the logistics or perhaps to sort out and look at the way in which one can set up an immunisation programme in a refugee camp . |
| 13 | His fingers came out and hovered at the side of her head . |
| 14 | Her mother came out and stood at the gate waving until Caro had walked out of sight , and Caro had to force herself not to run to escape that imploring cloying gaze . |
| 15 | because , you know , you will see a couple of doctors wandering around and sitting at the desk |
| 16 | you 've used a triangular bandage to cover a wound in the scalp , it 's not a chopping block wound right , it 's not the chopper in its wound right , it 's just a minor wound in the scalp , yes , and that came round and tied at the front , tucked at the back , you used these roller bandages to cover a graze or a wound on the end of an elbow or a knee or the hand , foot and then a straight one up the arm okay , so a lot of your bandaging is using these little roller bandages with the lint pad and do n't forget when you get into the exam do it , do n't do it the wrong way round , remember that you look at your bandage and you put the lint onto the wound , not the other way round right , yeah , you put the lint face down onto the wound , okay ? |
| 17 | Not only has he again fallen flat on the ground , but his head and his hands have broken off and lie at the entrance of the building . |
| 18 | We used to walk in and stand at the foot of one of the giant cranes . |
| 19 | He turned over and stared at the sky . |
| 20 | She turned over and looked at the illuminated dial of her alarm clock . |
| 21 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 22 | Startled faces turned as they sang , then turned back and looked at the pulpit . |
| 23 | Dong took one last look back and shuddered at the sight of the disembodied foot poking from the red jungle earth . |
| 24 | She turned round and looked at the brass-dialled clock sitting starkly on a red brick wall to the side of them and added , ‘ Only half-past eight . ’ |
| 25 | He turned round and looked at the sea of faces . |
| 26 | Then on another shot , he had a POW on the drill , who turned round and waved at the camera crew , so that was scrubbed out and done again . |
| 27 | We watched him creating that knitting , talking about colour and going round and looking at the things which had inspired his imagination in his designing . |
| 28 | Surrounding himself with local knowledge was a form of entrenchment ; if you dig in and stare at a hill you can often persuade yourself you know what 's going on behind it . |
| 29 | A woman walked in and sat at the middle of the counter — Maxim had chosen the furthest end . |
| 30 | He walked over and rattled at the locked door . |