Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You did n't mind me looking in at the window , Stephen ? |
| 2 | Her feather bobbed up and down in indignation as she talked , and Fowler , who had no wish to gaze into her eyes , found himself flinching instead at the sight of Paul Franklin 's bright yellow socks . |
| 3 | Once , Cardiff could have imagined himself throwing up at the sight of that horror behind the wheel . |
| 4 | The claim was made by the prosecution in its summing up at the trial of Lou Macari and Brian Hillier , who deny conspiring to defraud the Inland Revenue . |
| 5 | You know , I mean we 're here , well are you going down at the end of the week or something ? |
| 6 | What are you working on at the moment ? ’ |
| 7 | Even if she could n't get a game , there 'd be something going on at the club , and it would be better than moping around at home . |
| 8 | Er , she says that she 's er , there 's absolutely nothing doing just at the moment , erm , but she says that she never knows the time when she will be called upon to you know , be asked to do a trip , but |
| 9 | James watched me prodding away at the knitting for a while , and I sensed his helplessness . |
| 10 | She found herself looking covertly at the bed , which had so much the air of being from a foreign country . |
| 11 | Ace found herself looking up at the sky . |
| 12 | They left him looking up at the sky again . |
| 13 | When Nell did n't reply , he turned to see if she had heard him ; found her staring fixedly at the sign . |
| 14 | The spoilt , black-haired girl sitting beside him staring out at the river . |
| 15 | Huy watched him retreat and then followed Taheb and Nephthys , finding them talking softly at the gate . |
| 16 | There was a lorr of it going on at the time , y'know . |
| 17 | The leather also still looks good , although I 've notices it wearing away at the top of the ankle seam . |
| 18 | In his summing up at the end of ‘ Prospect ’ , the Chief of Air Staff , Sir Dermot Boyle , publicly expressed the RAF 's opposition to the Sandys Reformation . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've all got to share , ’ she said , as they passed through the swing doors and found themselves looking down at the courtyard of the Museum . |