Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [v-ing] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others might be talking to their girlfriends or just idly smoking and looking at the sky . |
| 2 | Your eye makes a natural adjustment for this when looking at the scene direct so that the colour appears the same irrespective of the lighting . |
| 3 | I first heard of this when camping at the foot of Bredon Hill in Worcestershire in 1960 . |
| 4 | It 's probably no more pleasant than living at the centre of some large , dirty , crime-ridden city . |
| 5 | Her eyes were wide with sworls of silver and blue brighter than looking at the sun at its zenith in the longest day of summer . |
| 6 | Robins slightly endeared herself to me by going a little pink and gazing at the ceiling . |
| 7 | Extending the curriculum to include a range of applications which more adequately than at present represents the kinds of human endeavour where mathematics is used would be another such change , with fewer examples involving ballistics and war , for instance , and more involving such activities as working with fabrics , designing appliances for the disabled or looking at the school canteen 's queuing problems . |
| 8 | There was a daily requisition to carry troops to the Rossall rifle ranges , leaving between 8–30 and 9–30 and returning at the end of the afternoon . |
| 9 | Song a hoopoe-like succession of hoots , rising at first and falling at the end , sometimes in the form of a trill . |
| 10 | For a long time she imagined she might open the door and see the body of her mother , stretched out in death on her bed , her arms folded across her chest , her eyes still open and staring at the ceiling . |
| 11 | He lay on his bunk with his eyes open and staring at the rafter ceiling for all the hours that were common for the men of Hut 2 . |
| 12 | A word can be misspelled , mis-recognised or mis-written , but all three cases appear the same when looking at the pattern recogniser output . |
| 13 | It was the same feeling as that experienced when standing at the edge of an enormous drop and the desire to jump seems overpowering . |
| 14 | Such data are relevant when looking at the impact trade unions may be able to have on the national political process . |