Example sentences of "[adv prt] at the [noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hissed , glancing up the stairs for shadows , crouching down at the phone and covering up my mouth with my free hand . |
| 2 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 3 | Except to note that now that the right honourable member for Chesterfield is publishing his former speeches as a video , it is rather a cheap operation to come and repeat them in the chamber er rather than putting them out er for public consumption there are places where he could repeat the kind of speeches just given , unfortunately the government is closing most of them down at the moment and putting the cut the inhabitants out in the community er but it had no relevance to the er the subject we 're dealing with today . |
| 4 | He 'd said his prayers and celebrated Mass , Benedicta just slipping in at the door and kneeling next to the baptismal font instead of coming further up the nave . |
| 5 | More flakes sifted down like meal , sifted and sifted , drifting in at the embrasure and lying on the flagstones , unmelting . |
| 6 | ‘ Plunging in at the anus and tunnelling a giant point of exit at the sockets … one part giant surge of flesh , one part holy revelation . ’ |
| 7 | But one of the things , obvious at first , that , one of the first things about any kind of journalism apart from apart from , in your specialist journals and so on , is that they 're about newspapers are about people , so obviously get the people in and there 's a , a very good very good you 've got the person , you 've got you 've got you 've got someone in up at the top and saying something . |
| 8 | Hundreds of people are standing around , gazing up at the indicator and waiting for the platform of their train to be flashed up . |
| 9 | Now Dad can have an identical jumper to his son without having to roll it up at the bottom or trying to fit two arms into three sleeves . |
| 10 | Now Dad can have an identical jumper to his son without having to roll it up at the bottom or trying to fit two arms into three sleeves . |
| 11 | Enjoys windsurfing , working out at the gym and strutting his funky stuff on the dance floor . |
| 12 | Left : From Monica 's favourite spot — her writing room — she can look out at the garden while sitting at her desk |
| 13 | I called in on Ruth at lunchtime today and found her sitting up in her wheelchair looking out at the garden and seeming much better and as bright as usual — a nice nurse in attendance . |
| 14 | Jack paused indecisively , looking back at the Glory and wondering if there was any connection between its abandoned state and the mysterious figures on the hill . |