Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape ! |
| 2 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 3 | Hughes removed Desmond Haynes , Phil Simmons and Richie Richardson in the last session , leaving them struggling at 62-3 . |
| 4 | At the time I was of the same colouring ( there 's a portrait of me hanging at Burpham ) . |
| 5 | His companions were both in their forties , one of them greying at the temples , a squat , powerfully built man ; the other was a tall gangling individual with deep set eyes which remained fixed on Hitch the whole time . |
| 6 | ‘ One of them was so desperate to stop me overtaking at the ford he lost his footing and fell backwards into the water . ’ |
| 7 | part of her expected to find them laughing at his wild reaction beyond all sense and to return her to the blessed normal but when she looked around only Maggie stood in the room . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I might find them laughing at poor Daddy , ’ Rose said , allowing her own shock and fear to ease out in the nervous laughter , but Maggie 's face remained pale and serious . |
| 9 | I can still remember the humiliation I felt as I heard everyone laughing at me , and my brother laughing the loudest of all . |
| 10 | Why am I firing at it ? |
| 11 | His drawings of it convey the sense of someone singing at his work . |
| 12 | The average Briton finds someone knocking at his door extremely embarrassing and someone performing on the streets and handing out tracts equally uncomfortable . |
| 13 | Am I looking at this file at all anxiously ? |
| 14 | And so in conclusion I looking at it and the exhibitions we 've made to you and to the county in the course of the consultation draft is that this county does not need this policy and that it is in fact an insidious and repressive kind of policy that it contrary to national planning guidance and should not be included in the alterations . |
| 15 | Where am I looking at ? |
| 16 | I , I looking at them . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've also found ourselves looking at other aspects , like eldercare , which is increasingly becoming a problem for people who work . |
| 18 | If we examine what it is one participant is ready to see that other participants might read into a situation and what it is that will cause him to provide ritual remedies , followed by relief for these efforts , we find ourselves looking at the central moral traditions of Western culture . |
| 19 | It 's not known with any degree of certainty , erm , there was some indication by someone writing at the end of the last century , that it was written by someone in the time of the Queen Elizabeth , hence , perhaps it was God Save The Queen . |
| 20 | I have it on good authority that someone living at Hempnall became very enamoured of a stray mink she found outside her house . |
| 21 | At the simplest level this means deciding that someone wearing , say , a skirt in our society is female and acting on the basis of this decision , or deciding that someone shouting at the top of his or her voice is excited or angry and acting accordingly . |
| 22 | Here we have someone shouting at us about the bad effects of the Prozac , they then tell us that have n't taken them . |
| 23 | ( Try to imagine someone leering at a cat , or at a Yorkshire pudding . ) |
| 24 | The fact that we may have no reason to say of someone looking at a blue flower that it looks blue to him does not mean that it does not look blue to him . |
| 25 | However , he clearly enjoys my picking at Ministry scabs , and understands rumours of such sensational value should be preserved . |
| 26 | So at 10.30 the next morning we found ourselves waiting at Lochranza , the most northerly point of the island . |
| 27 | The next morning he was woken up by someone kicking at the shop door . |
| 28 | Someone calling at The Two Pheasants , I suppose , or at the Shoosmiths . ’ |
| 29 | Then she was aware of someone staring at her and looking out of the corner of her eyes she saw it was Carmella . |
| 30 | Fancy having someone staring at you all day ! |