Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [v-ing] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not sleep but lay on my back staring at the blackness , listening to the wind and one of the lads snoring . |
| 2 | we went to Ascot with my dad standing at the bar all day , we watched |
| 3 | Mrs Jones claims she saw her ex-husband crouching at the foot of the bed with a makeshift gas chamber … a box fixed to a length of piping . |
| 4 | She looked round and saw her sister standing at the window , gazing out . |
| 5 | Claudia asked , her heart sinking at the idea of Dana rushing from shorts into a wedding dress in the space of a few minutes . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's had a blood leakage into the vitreous humour , ’ Belinda explained unnecessarily , her heart thudding at the sight of him . |
| 7 | The smith and his sister , equally brawny , set their apprentice sweating at the bellows of the forge , to repair weapons , ship 's fittings , armour . |
| 8 | Automatically she prepared to go to bed , her mind worrying at the puzzle like a terrier . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's obscene , ’ Ace growled , the hairs on the back of her neck prickling at the thought that a mother could do that . |
| 10 | If she did sense an added aura of poignancy it was probably because in less than two weeks Tivoli would close its turnstiles and remain dormant until its spring awakening at the end of the following April . |
| 11 | The van laboured its way up the final stretch of the brae , its engine protesting at the strain . |
| 12 | Slorne was huddled silently in the top corner of her cage looking at the sky . |
| 13 | She glanced at the clock and leapt to her feet , her colour deepening at the look in Penry 's eyes as she pulled her jersey over her head . |
| 14 | The hand first invaded by the flea was withered , its nails dropped from their place , its bone showing at the knuckles and wrist . |
| 15 | and they keep their reading books from the li their library going at the pace they want to go at |
| 16 | She was down to its level now , her finger jabbing at the zip of his trousers . |
| 17 | Leith could feel her anger straining at the leash at his sarcastic comment , but she made enormous efforts to stay cool . |
| 18 | She fiddled with the catches on the shutters and folded them back , her anger cooling at the haunting , distant sound of a boatman singing . |
| 19 | And then marooned on her black flesh , two circles round her throat , and her chin pointing at the ceiling like the toe of a boot on a corpse , one arm bent backwards , nothing on except the slacks around her ankles , but no way in , at least none that he could find , and the cheap carpet burning his elbows and his knees , and sleep beginning to ooze from her ridged lips . |
| 20 | Much later that night , Clare lay in her bed staring at the ceiling . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not offering anything else , ’ she said , her voice thickening at the thought of what anything else could be . |
| 22 | Or if you like , she stalks to her corner smiling at the end of round one . |
| 23 | She saw her mother sitting at the table , with a pen and some writing paper in front of her . |
| 24 | She nodded , her eyes like stars , her pulse racing at the implication in his words . |
| 25 | Ace felt her pulse racing at the sight . |
| 26 | Kate sat in her office staring at the files in front of her . |
| 27 | As I sat listening to Dr Bowie and his statistician talking at the press conference called to launch their report , carefully explaining the origin of the figures , I realized the significance of this news . |
| 28 | RANGERS manager Walter Smith refuses to take winning this season 's Premier League title for granted — despite his side cruising at the top . |
| 29 | Ward was leaning forward again , his weight dragging at the arm he was still holding . |
| 30 | A small survey of Lichtenstein 's art opens at the Tate Gallery , Liverpool , next month , with a really comprehensive exhibition of his work following at the Guggenheim Museum , New York , in May . |