Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And though I am not sure I would be able to stand looking at it for the run of the show , William Holman Hunt 's hideous , hard-core Pre-Raphaelite head of Christ ‘ The Beloved ’ has the punch of a Gilbert and George . |
| 2 | When after a moment it had not moved , I resorted to the car horn , but this had no effect other than to make the creature commence pecking at something on the ground . |
| 3 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 4 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 5 | Viewers , when presented with a shot in which the subject is seen looking at something off the screen , will assume that the next shot will show whatever it was that the person was looking at . |
| 6 | I want to try and stop shouting at you in the morning so I 'm going to put out your clothes for you to get dressed . |
| 7 | Now Summerchild has mentioned it , I believe I remember looking at it during the long silences in my conversations with Millie . |
| 8 | A hand began feeling at him in the places he might carry a gun , so Maxim said to Fraulein Winkelmann : ‘ It would be compli-cated if he shoots me . |
| 9 | Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me . |
| 10 | I kept looking at myself in the glass . |
| 11 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 12 | And then when she was fully dressed , she shut the closet door over and stood looking at herself in the mirror which was on the other side . |
| 13 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 14 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
| 15 | So we worked at it : he went to one end of a huge rehearsal room while I stood yelling at him from the other . |