Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 2 | You lose their attention if you keep staring down at the papers in your hand . |
| 3 | Another man would have gone away , would have pretended we were not there , would have stood looking up at the wall-plaques and the windows until we had gone safely away . |
| 4 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 5 | The two boys stood looking down at the heaps of feathers . |
| 6 | Leaving her abruptly , he moved to the desk and stood staring down at the papers lying on it , his attitude so tense that Lucy felt compelled to go to his side . |