Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Janice had gone Shiona went back inside and sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of strong black coffee . |
| 2 | Berdichev huffed impatiently and looked up at the overhead camera . |
| 3 | He slipped quietly in and glanced up at the windows and walls until his attention was drawn to a mop of fair hair sticking out from behind one of the back pews . |
| 4 | ‘ Ah , yes , ’ Farouk cut in and glanced down at the notepad in front of him . |
| 5 | I 've had some armchairs brought in and put there at the window in case you want to talk to people more informally than around the table . ’ |
| 6 | No , it 's just somewhere to sit in and look out at the en , er the ships and boats going by . |
| 7 | franchise , so the difference the difference now , is that they will be able er in some , certain circumstances to come in and bid directly at the outset . |
| 8 | She slowed down and looked up at the house now looming high above them . |
| 9 | It was the time of wooden pit props and er much kneeling and laying down and hacking away at the coal with picks and there was no mining machinery as we know it now . |
| 10 | Doyle put his foot down and drove straight at the men . |
| 11 | The arrangements have been made so as to enable spectators to be SET DOWN AND PICKED UP AT THE SAME POINT in a city unfamiliar to them . |
| 12 | She watched nervously as he bent down and pushed gently at the huge mouth , and gradually , reluctantly , he was released . |
| 13 | The cabinet slammed full against the shape , pinning it down and jamming sideways at the bottom of the stairwell . |
| 14 | This gentleman visited Miss Mack every 18 months or so and put up at the Bell for the week of his stay . |
| 15 | His hair had grown long and curled attractively at the nape of his neck . |
| 16 | She stood with her hands clasped tightly together and stared frantically at the curtain rail , her face racked with pain . |
| 17 | After a few moments she could stand it no longer , and with an effort she wrenched her gaze away and looked down at the carpet . |
| 18 | He covered his face with his hands , then took them away and looked down at the earth . |
| 19 | I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal . |
| 20 | Walk through and look up at the Parler net vaulting with the crown of Bohemia on the boss . |
| 21 | Someone kicked his washing-bag over and stared down at the spilled shirt sleeve , the maroon-edged handkerchief . |
| 22 | Julius strolled over and looked down at the quietly flowing water . |
| 23 | Andrew felt his heart turn over and looked back at the view so that she should n't see what she was doing to him . |
| 24 | At another point , he came over and sat down at the table with them . |
| 25 | You will knit the same number of rows in all as when decreasing every alternate row , you just have to be careful to match all sides exactly and end neatly at the top . |
| 26 | Scott walked outside and looked up at the rocket . |
| 27 | He got up as Leo walked across the lawn outside and smiled down at the trio in the swing-seat . |
| 28 | Charlie took a pace backwards and stared up at the name above the shop . |
| 29 | The bull lifts its head a little and gazes up at the Admiralty for some moments . |
| 30 | He could have been seven hundred miles away , his hand holding the side curtain open a little and staring out at the darkness . |