Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 2 | I would be sitting in the car looking out at the fascinating scenery , my mum and my brother would be doing the same , my sister would be looking at a book and my dad would be driving . |
| 3 | The damp wind blowing in at the open door made him shiver and he went to wake the others . |
| 4 | You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools . |
| 5 | As the sun begins to set , I drive along Vermont gazing up at the eerie silhouettes of young Korean men armed with M-16s , machine pistols and infra-red binoculars . |
| 6 | He looked round at her , standing beside him in the corridor bar looking out at the stupid countryside . |
| 7 | Gina sprang to her feet glaring down at the golden-skinned Dane lounging opposite her . |
| 8 | ‘ Less aggro signing on at the Social Security . ’ |
| 9 | She stood for a moment staring round at the flickering shadows thrown by the lone candle , the fire had died long since and the room was cold and suddenly lonely . |
| 10 | I was dragged out of the cave , through the waterfall , to lie on my back gazing up at the fast-moving clouds in the blue sky ; and I thought to myself , Those clouds are free , just as I was until now . |
| 11 | Robyn lay on her back looking up at the cloudless sky . |
| 12 | Even when set up correctly some units have their clip lights coming on at the slightest provocation , while the Alpha seems to have more headroom before it clips , which should therefore mean less chance of unwanted distortion . |
| 13 | The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps . |
| 14 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 15 | One of the most productive nurseries in the world , the Yorkshire League , has become almost barren and the time has come to pluck from another , rich in blossoms — Shivaji Park , Bombay , where you can stand on the roof-top of the small pavilion and watch 15 games going on at the same time . |
| 16 | She did n't know much about art before but there was an exhibition of my Old Masters going on at the Royal Academy and she saw that , and was very enthusiastic about it , especially the Holbein portrait of Henry VIII . |
| 17 | The others , grouped around him , stood in silence looking down at the stricken man . |
| 18 | Five minutes later they stood on the grassy bank looking down at the brown water . |
| 19 | A large enzyme pool turning over at the same rate as a small one would produce more new enzyme , which would result in a greater amount of enzyme being available for secretion . |
| 20 | But for Major 's official papers , the pantechnicon drawing up at the back door might be unnecessary . |
| 21 | I stand up there in the pulpit every Sunday mornin' looking down at the upturned faces searchin' for yours , but in vain . |
| 22 | Land-agents and estate agents passing through at the brief moment of negotiation are likely to be more exclusively dominated by the money motive . |
| 23 | It was very hot and she lay under the single sheet staring up at the high moonlit ceiling and thinking about T. Buckland Kettering . |
| 24 | She walked one last time down the rickety boardwalk in front of the cabins , and stood for a long time looking down at the sleeping lodge , the moody lake beyond it . |
| 25 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |
| 26 | His astonished gaze was fixed on the second familiar face staring out at the public floggings from amid the crowd of frightened coolies on the first truck , a face he had n't seen for even longer — that of his own father ! |