Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was looking particularly uncompromising today , tired and pale , her dark , short hair spiking up at the back . |
| 2 | It was just before midnight and she was out on the terrace , staring out only half seeingly at the star-spangled horizon , when she heard the sound of a car drawing up at the front of the house . |
| 3 | Carrie looked at him and saw his mouth turning down at the corners . |
| 4 | Indeed , if you are lucky , on a clear day you might just be able to see the spring bubbling up at the bottom of the pond . |
| 5 | If fixing outside the recess , you will need to add a minimum of 10cm ( 4in ) to the width of the reveal to prevent light seeping through at the sides of the blind . |
| 6 | ‘ Look , ’ said his Mum looking back at the house . |
| 7 | Craig Grenfell stood on the hilltop looking down at the scene in the graveyard below . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Sir , — May I congratulate the photographer who took the picture in last week 's edition showing a young boy looking up at the Queen with wonderment and awe . |
| 10 | The kitchen opened into a very pleasant sitting-room , which had a door leading to a little dairy on the right and then to the stairs which had a half landing with a tiny window looking out at the back . |
| 11 | When we went into the foyer , there was a uniformed porter on duty at the desk and a small dark man in his early fifties standing at the window looking out at the rain , a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth . |
| 12 | Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows . |
| 13 | And indeed we 're seeing that work coming through at the moment . |
| 14 | You can usually count on finding old Bill Waddy sitting up at the bar here , and old Gareth Holmroyd hovering about somewhere . ’ |
| 15 | If you go on holiday for a month , you want another pay cheque going in at the end of the month . |
| 16 | The story going around at the time was that he had ticked off the Lebanese bureau staff to the point where they sold him to Hezbollah for a bit of peace and quiet ! |
| 17 | I was born in Wapping in the year nineteen hundred and six , my father was a docker , one of my earliest recollections is of the dock strike of nineteen hundred and eleven , in which I played a part lining up at the soup kitchens to get soup for the family . |
| 18 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 19 | One hour later , Rose stood at the window of his room looking down at the harbour scene . |
| 20 | I think there 's a very interesting as well as the , I mean the tragedy that we know of Bosnia Hercegovina , there 's a very complex business going on at the moment about the handling of an international situation . |
| 21 | He had managed to find the General , but with one eye pointing up at the sky and the other angled down at his nose , there was little scope for effective communication . |
| 22 | Out of the corner of her eye , she watched her husband staring down at the cot . |
| 23 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 24 | With the rain teeming down at the Manor , Italy seemed a long way off — too far for United . |
| 25 | It 's Radio Nottingham it 's eight minutes to two Ann Green from Mansfield got the er family ticket to go to Alton Towers for spotting the firework noise popping up at the beginning of Billy Joe Spears . |
| 26 | Nobody envies 33 Squadron flying out at the start of winter . |
| 27 | Then he turned and stood for a while gazing out at the Pacific . |
| 28 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 29 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 30 | They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins . |