Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 2 | That handjob I scored at the Happy Isles-I tell you , She-She was giving it away . |
| 3 | I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme . |
| 4 | I felt at the torn threads in my blouse and looked at the grazed skin underneath and shuddered , but I was all right and so was the tree . |
| 5 | I looked at the two men . |
| 6 | So I looked at the two men again . |
| 7 | I looked at the other windows in the house . |
| 8 | When I looked at the broken bundles scattered across the floor , I recognized the faces . |
| 9 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 10 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
| 11 | Telling my story , I looked at the green fields of wheat moving in the wind . |
| 12 | I looked at the double doors in horror and wondered if perchance Toplis might be hiding inside . |
| 13 | The old woman came and silently cleared away , without once looking at me , even when I pointed at the few cakes left and praised them in my stilted Greek ; the hermit master evidently liked silent servants . |
| 14 | I know , too , that my mother valued the people she met here , from the smiles of the young folk to the friends she made at the Senior Citizens ' Lunch Club and Meeting . |
| 15 | She gazed at the moonlit/sunlit clouds below her — desert , lakes , river-ribbons , an ocean . |
| 16 | Emily seemed to sense this too as she gazed at the uppermost branches . |
| 17 | She glanced at the brief details on the card Jill handed to her before smiling at the man . |
| 18 | Between 1979 and 1982 , she worked at the Foreign Relations Office of the Chinese Writers ' Association . |
| 19 | She stared at the shifting colours and shapes , remote and isolated , hearing the voices and noise of music playing inside . |
| 20 | Breathing deeply , fighting sudden fresh tears , she stared at the whitewashed walls of the tiny , tidy yard . |
| 21 | Crawling a little closer to the heat , she wrapped herself up and lay down , pillowing her head on her arm as she stared at the flickering flames . |
| 22 | She clutched at the slithery sides but there was no grip . |
| 23 | And her eyes too shone as she looked at the two men sitting there . |
| 24 | As they sat together on the grass , she looked at the tumbling waters of the beck and told him how Maria had slipped on the stepping-stones , down by the farm . |
| 25 | She looked at the few cigarettes left in her pack and then impulsively threw them all out of the window . |
| 26 | She looked at the handsome features framed by thick , straight dark hair , and into a pair of brown eyes set beneath dark brows . |
| 27 | She looked at the stiff carnations from Carlo San Lorenzo . |
| 28 | She looked at the rigid contours of his face and wanted to run , but her feet felt like lead weights . |
| 29 | She looked at the empty tables . |
| 30 | Lucy , all this time , was still sitting on the verandah surrounded by her cartridge-making tools and weeping bitterly as she looked at the neat rows of cartridges she had made and which were no longer needed . |