Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier she had listened intently as a statement by Cheshires commanding officer Lt Col Bob Stewart read out at the hearing told how L/Cpl Edwards ' killer had not been traced . |
| 2 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never eaten them , ’ Richard gazed up at the man , his clear chestnut eyes , starry with their thick lashes , open wide as he judged the amount of pathos necessary to achieve his aim . |
| 4 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 5 | Zach gazed round at the tiny wooden bed under the eaves . |
| 6 | Sylvie gazed out at the eternity of blue and took a long , deep breath . |
| 7 | Barbara Buhler looks back at the effect of criticism on Georgia O'Keeffe 's art in the 1920s |
| 8 | Edward came in at the french window and stared blankly at his younger sister . |
| 9 | Angalo squinted up at the blue sky . |
| 10 | Corbett squinted down at the faded blue-green ink . |
| 11 | Richard squinted up at the sun then fell into step beside her . |
| 12 | Rocky nodded down at the girl between them . |
| 13 | Lucy glanced down at the book lying open on the desk . |
| 14 | The first night 's long walk up to the moor with the hives , Ruari glanced back at the wee lass trotting along behind Ranald 's lurch , gamely holding up her end of the staff . |
| 15 | Galvone glanced down at the wall-to-wall shag carpet , shrugged . |
| 16 | Donna glanced round at the other occupants of the room but they were all hunched over their chosen books , seated at the wooden desks . |
| 17 | Schellenberg glanced around at the desolate landscape . |
| 18 | Rex glanced down at the billfold and then back to the screen . |
| 19 | And in the third part , " Tuami glanced back at the gap through the mountain and saw that it was full of golden light and the sun was sitting in it " . |
| 20 | Manville glanced back at the black sedan as the taxi surged forward . |
| 21 | Travis glanced up at the lowering sun . |
| 22 | As Sabrina stood outside the hotel on the Place de la Gare staring up at the Cathedral 's spire silhouetted against the dark , sombre skyline , she let her thoughts drift back over the hours since their departure from New York 's John F. Kennedy Airport . |
| 23 | Then Adams hit out at the dismissal of defenceman Mike Ware , saying : ‘ We 're told Mike went for a Fife player — he never hit him . |
| 24 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 25 | Fortinbras coming in at the end , when Hamlet 's dead and everyone 's dead . |
| 26 | Hennessy looked down at the slip of paper that he was being offered . |
| 27 | Ruthven looked up at the birds wheeling and twisting against the blue sky . |
| 28 | Corbett looked back at the tavern doorway now thronged with onlookers . |
| 29 | Someone 's brother , baby son , or lover he thought and now he was gone : Corbett looked down at the corpse and felt the futility of the death . |
| 30 | Corbett looked down at the fearful remains of a young man who , the last time they had met , had been a vigorous young soldier interested in clearing his own name . |