Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
2 | No answer suggested itself , however , and after a minute or two he became aware that as these thoughts whirled through his mind he had been staring down at the grilles confining the Chinese coolie families . |
3 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
4 | So I always try to do that but I , I , again I find that it 's very erm very tiring and it 's very , gets very can get very involved with it , so I would like us , I 'd like you to think of the idea of a social secretary to help with the raffles and organizing what 's going on at the meetings please . |
5 | He says the tabloid press has been hitting out at the Lords for a long time . |
6 | He was gazing up at the stars , probably communing with the Mother Ship and receiving new instructions . |
7 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
8 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
9 | When they had gone , Maria glanced at Luke , but to her relief he was looking down at the photos Florian had left behind , his expression inscrutable . |
10 | His father was pointing down at the rocks . |
11 | There were times when I was starting in at the cattle that it stood between me and the road . |
12 | The sun was streaming in at the windows of her room . |
13 | The dandelion quiche was curling up at the edges and the semolina pudding congealed into a wodge you could use as Polyfilla . |