Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [v-ing] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the contact turned into an embrace without either of them looking at the other or talking , they just put their arms around each other . |
| 2 | Her father and mother were sitting tensely on the sofa , Omi at the table , upright , disdain on her fine features , Bodo , huge against the wall , and all of them staring at the stubby , shabby , ash-stained figure of Marx , blinking through his red eyes at the document and reading aloud in an artificially solemn voice , practised in legal jargon and with which he , no doubt , had read out a hundred , a thousand , such documents . |
| 3 | An antediluvian handful of hon. Members , many of them retiring at the next election , are not keen on these matters , but they are a diminishing and insignificant number . |
| 4 | Standing behind them looking at the steaming urn on the barrow , I felt worse than hungover ; it was a mixture of too little sleep , being hot and unwashed , completely unaware of what was going on , and worst , I was hungry . |
| 5 | Let's see if we can refine those like us looking at the first two lines of the play . |
| 6 | You see the thing is you can record and listen to yourself speaking at the same time ? |