Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [pron] [v-ing] at " in BNC.

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1 But then we have to move with Ulysses to a huge spinning-top of words which defies such judgements and leaves us clutching at apparently familiar images which so sooner appear than they are gone .
2 She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter .
3 Beth shuffled her feet in the awkward silence and found herself looking at the second man more closely .
4 They can put the case for the minister 's decision , copy his style , anticipate hostile points and leave him feeling at a great advantage in any conflict .
5 1991 , 27 1042 ) , prompted a childhood memory and sent me rummaging at the top of the house for 300 Things a bright boy can do , a book presented to me by some relative ca 1928 .
6 Francis lifted his head above the edge of the display and found himself staring at a confusing picture of pipes and girders .
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