Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Frasque , that had seemed so desiccated and invulnerable , shrivelled and burned at the Capellans ' slightest gesture . |
| 2 | A lecturer visiting a student on teaching practice tells of being mistaken for a parent and being kept standing in a cold corridor while behind a closed door the head shouted and screamed at a tearful child . |
| 3 | It caught and twisted at the heart , and there was no armour against it . |
| 4 | They hooted and waved at the boats as they whizzed by . |
| 5 | John slowly rose and sat at the table where he was soon joined by the two women . |
| 6 | He knew that she stopped and stared at the sea or the sky far too much these days . |
| 7 | As Charlie approached the Whitechapel Road , he stopped and stared at the frantic bustle taking place all around him . |
| 8 | Agrippa stopped and looked at a lonely bird shrieking above us as if it was a devil let loose to wander this lonely wilderness . |
| 9 | She stopped and looked at the garden ; inside the square was a circle of flower beds . |
| 10 | She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence . |
| 11 | I stopped and looked at the big house . |
| 12 | It was a very nice day out actually , and everything from serious riders who just went up and down and the most energetic one did a hundred miles , to families who treated it , took a picnic and stopped and looked at the badger tunnels . |
| 13 | She stopped and blushed at the stupidity of the question , adding quickly , ‘ You work here in the village , of course . ‘ |
| 14 | Then he stopped and bowed at the waist . |
| 15 | They stopped and wondered at the crude little pageant parked outside the cottage , stroking its paintwork and prying into the winches and traps . |
| 16 | Old Ranza , a very large and mostly white collie , sighed by her chair as she hummed and hawed at the cottage sketch . |
| 17 | This was foreseen by the local residents who objected and petitioned at the time planning permission was under consideration . |
| 18 | I changed and bathed at the tavern where my master was staying in Great Mary Axe Street near Bishopsgate . |
| 19 | Poor Kodiak whined and scratched at the verandah door as we drove off . |
| 20 | When she had the hackles high on her shoulders , when she whined and scratched at the back door , then the house was watched . |
| 21 | Trent surfaced and yelled at the men in the cockpit to swim a lifejacket out to him . |
| 22 | While in Amritsar he visited and prayed at the Golden Temple , Sikhism 's most hallowed shrine which had been the subject in 1984 of an Army assault [ see pp. 33223-24 ] , in a gesture of reconciliation . |
| 23 | Managers came and went at an alarming rate ; there was Board Room take-over ; gates began to dwindle and the Palace were candidates for relegation from well before Christmas . |
| 24 | MacDiarmid waved him forward with a commanding sweep of his arm and he came and sat at the end of the table . |
| 25 | Modigliani , of course , spotted her at once and came and sat at the next table . |
| 26 | Both places had latches and as long as I got ten yards ' start on him , I could slam the door shut and slip my half clothes-peg under the latch — I always carried a half clothes-peg for the purpose — and no matter how much he blasphemed and kicked at the door he could n't get in . |
| 27 | As a leading historian of medieval technology has remarked , ‘ No European community felt able to hold up its head unless in its midst the planets wheeled in cycles and epicycles , whilst angels trumpeted and countermarched at the booming of the hours . ’ |
| 28 | Nevertheless they mounted and rode at a good trot up the great road towards the north . |
| 29 | Erlich helped out with the Little League team in Rome that played and practised at the American School on the Via Cassia most Saturday mornings . |
| 30 | Benjamin stirred and shouted at the slattern to bring a toothpick . |