Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard him growling at the crowd . |
| 2 | I watched her sipping at the stuff , making faces . |
| 3 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 4 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |
| 5 | ‘ Fair enough — I kept you waiting at the Company office . |
| 6 | She saw them standing at the window looking at someone in the garden with great interest . |
| 7 | But something kept me sitting at the desk . |
| 8 | They found her sitting at the table with the Telegraph , nibbling toast . |
| 9 | So high were these prison walls , indeed , that they left you wondering at the build of the common Italian criminal . |
| 10 | He found her sitting at the desk which was quite clear . |
| 11 | He saw me looking at the picture and said , ‘ Kolwezi , Southern Zaire , 1978 . ’ |
| 12 | In fact he had me arriving at the scene in a police car with two tones , at , at , at that time we did n't have police cars with two tones , just siren , so they obviously put some sound on it . |