Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] at [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think w w what I 'd urge the panel to consider is is perhaps looking at it from that perspective , to encourage the County Council to review the phasing provision of policy H one erm in terms of er how the the committed land is going to be released for development . |
| 2 | He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers . |
| 3 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said slowly , still looking at her in that peculiar way , ‘ you really are rather a remarkable person . ’ |
| 5 | Francis and Elaine , clutching each other 's hands , were also gazing at her with wide eyes . |
| 6 | ‘ I see , ’ he said with a quick look at the clerk , who was now staring at them with both eyes well open . |
| 7 | He was simply laughing at her in that condescending way he had . |
| 8 | Mrs Foster had told them Matthew was a bad-tempered boy , and she 'd certainly been right about the bad-tempered part , though this was no boy standing here looking at her with such menace . |
| 9 | When other people made a fuss of him , he hardly bothered with them , preferring to go over to wherever I might be and just sit there looking at me with those eyes . |
| 10 | Where he comes in and he does that piss and he 's and Madonna 's standing there looking at him like this and she 's just looking at him and she 's going , anyone who can keep it up that long and he 's just sitting there going er no he 's going er and she 's going , she 's going , and she 's coming round like that trying to look at him , I could n't stop laughing . |
| 11 | Tess followed him and stood there staring at him with dry eyes . |
| 12 | The rumour is one of the caretakers was happily waving at them for 5 minutes before somebody told him they were n't real . |