Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 2 | Three or four knights had come hastening in at the sound of their lord 's voice . |
| 3 | However , I made my position very clear to the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus sports hack , Mark Crowe , when he came sniffing round at the funeral . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're in luck , ’ said Jonna , as Ned came panting in at the doorway with an armful of heavily-foliaged twigs . |
| 5 | That opinion is absolutely in line with that expressed by the people of Kincardine and Deeside who thoroughly rejected opting out at the ballot box . |
| 6 | Then a car was heard pulling up at the gate ; either the bridal car or their uncle had come . |
| 7 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 8 | I wanted to buy some blades and socks , but most of all I wanted to avoid arriving back at the flat at the exact time she did , just in case Harvey should be angry at her disobeying him . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not sure how high we went but I remember looking down at the surf . |
| 10 | The inexperienced , particularly , can not face selling out at a loss . |
| 11 | Removal of water through artesian wells is held to be the reason why the tower began going off at an angle soon after building work began in 1174 . |
| 12 | Where the line of stones breaks , lines of energy could be detected moving off at a tangent . |
| 13 | Normally he enjoyed staying over at the firm 's northern hospitality suite which was situated above their offices — bloody hell , he had treated a few girls to his own style of hospitality there enough times — but tonight it was all wrong . |
| 14 | ‘ But I ca n't resist looking back at the history of rock and having this addiction to the great pop music that 's been made , whether it 's T-Rex or Blondie . |
| 15 | ‘ In April , hundreds of runners can be found digging around at the back of the wardrobe , trying to find that old pair of track spikes . |
| 16 | You lose their attention if you keep staring down at the papers in your hand . |
| 17 | The Prince and McPhee had walked on to the top of the bank and were standing looking down at the river . |
| 18 | Marcus was standing looking down at the woman . |
| 19 | I stared at him because he sounded so cold , but he was sitting looking down at the glass which he held on his knees and I could n't see his face . |
| 20 | I 'm sitting looking out at the darkness and the sea . |
| 21 | He cleared his throat once more and resumed staring up at the ceiling . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 24 | It is hard to find much at Comdex and the companion Windows World show that is not NT-related this year , and Tivoli Systems Inc winged in from Austin , Texas to announce that it will develop a version of its product for NT , and brought along enough gear to demonstrate the Tivoli Management Environment for Windows NT in an early form : it says the product will make it easy for systems administrators to manage , configure , change , monitor , and enforce security of NT systems across large networks , and enable systems managers to manage Windows NT and Unix systems , as well as Windows and MS-DOS client machines , from a single , integrated systems-manager 's desktop ; it will start trickling out at the end of the year with a developer 's toolkit , and management applications will follow in early 1994 . |
| 25 | It will start trickling out at the end of the year with a developer 's toolkit , and management applications will follow in early 1994 . |
| 26 | Pavel sat gazing out at the loading area as the man looked through a small number of memos and facsimile messages . |
| 27 | God how she hated them , the middle classes , penny-pinching , doling out their little bits , in their minds always the thought of saving and accumulating , saving — thought Alice , her mouth full of bile , as she stood gazing up at a beam a foot across that looked grey and flaky , with whitey-yellow fibres in it — the dry rot itself , which would lay its creeping arms over all the wood , if it were allowed , then creep down the walls , into the floor below , spread like a disease … |
| 28 | As soon as she took it he went over to the window and stood gazing out at the rain . |
| 29 | Cley rose to his feet and stood gazing down at the councillor . |
| 30 | Leonora jumped out , stood looking up at the house for a few moments more , then ran up the steps to ring the doorbell , laughter bubbling up inside as she anticipated Penry 's surprise at the sight of her . |