Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.

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1 The Stormtex outer gives the jacket a fair amount of shower and wind protection ; excellent for hillwalking and hanging about at the bottom of climbs .
2 Based on an 8km circuit of the Can and Chelmer , teams could opt to race 40 or 80km and change over at the race centre as often as they liked .
3 Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier .
4 In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy .
5 She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky .
6 She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky .
7 She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more .
8 He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke .
9 She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging .
10 Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki .
11 She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill .
12 Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness .
13 She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees .
14 We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats .
15 Go and sit up at the table erm Christopher .
16 There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too .
17 A disconsolate group of climbers sitting round a kitchen table all lean forward and peer out at the iron-grey clouds rumbling past .
18 ( In a letter to the Zoological Society written on 10 May and read out at the scientific meeting in London on 8 October , Gould described 19 new species , 13 of which he stated he had received from Dr Bynoe of the Beagle . )
19 Like Flynn before him , Fonda can not stay in the town he has tamed and rides out at the fade-out into the desert .
20 I called out that we were ready , but there was no answer , and when I returned to the bedroom I found her lying back full length on the bed , her eyes open and gazing up at the ceiling with that same vacant stare .
21 Laura sighed , leaning back on the hard bench and gazing up at the overcast sky .
22 The gulls were in good voice , however , soaring and shrieking overhead in a fickle , shifting breeze , and Harry was surprised how contented if not downright happy he felt , sitting in the shelter nearest the clock and gazing out at the white horses in the bay .
23 Now he must go away and I dare say I shall never see him again , ’ Joan said woefully , lagging behind despite Anne 's grumbles and gazing down at the ring .
24 But she has this threatening jacket , a dark linen one which she can pop on over the Lycra , and it has big shoulders and big assertive buttons and nips in at the waist , and this means , ‘ Fun I may be , but business is business and I will rip your arms and legs off in the boardroom if you let me . ’
25 Charles Fleming and I had a chance to look around the beautiful shops , and eat out at the RED SEA PALACE HOTEL ( pure magic by the way ) .
26 And in fact prices would seem now to be levelling off somewhat throughout the country , slowing down in the North and levelling off at the current levels in the South .
27 Small mesh stiff netting from the garden centre , suitably stretched and weighed down at the edges is another method .
28 The work reported in this thesis was sponsored by General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation plc and carried out at the Medical Research Council 's Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge and I thank Alan Baddeley and all at the unit for making the work possible .
29 When I take two and found out at the end of it there was a bit of erm Die Hard cos they 're a bit at this .
30 She 'd got the job after being made redundant and signing on at the job centre .
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