Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes effort on the part of the parent but can sometimes help them see that their child is eating more than they thought or eating at the wrong times of day . |
| 2 | If anyone starts talking about sex or looking at the Indian women , someone always says , ‘ Riddled with diseases I 'm sure . ’ |
| 3 | On the first day of his reappearance he contented himself with walking about , avoiding people 's eyes , or shovelling at the still melting ramparts like a man with a crime to expiate . |
| 4 | It was also a triumph over the devil , who was thought to be particularly active at death-beds , either gloating over the sinner who was about to fall into his clutches , or trying at the last moment to snatch a soul in the throes of fear or doubt . |
| 5 | More surprising , and to Paviour more confounding and conciliating at the same time , was the presence of Gus Hambro , busy with a large clip-board , charting on squared paper the patch of ground to be taken up , and sketching a hurried but accurately proportioned elevation of the exposed vault of the flue . |
| 6 | I 'm not a social eater and I hate talking and eating at the same time . |
| 7 | Here , at close quarters , the fitful , elusive silver congealed into the turgid brown flood she had seen upriver , a silent surge of water looking almost solid in its power , sweeping along leaves and branches and roots and swathes of weed in its eddies , gnawing away loose red layers of the soil along this near bank , and eating at the muddy rim of the path . |
| 8 | Harper was standing in his stirrups , pointing and cheering at the smaller wood to the right . |
| 9 | Experience with 761 had shown that loading and unloading at the same door was too slow on the Promenade . |
| 10 | ‘ But the most difficult thing about this band for me is actually playing parts live and singing at the same time ! |
| 11 | He wondered if Heather , sitting in the same chair and gazing at the same view , had somehow bequeathed to him this reaction , or if it were entirely his own , a product of the self-pity Kingdom had identified . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's the only castle I 've ever seen that I can imagine living in , ’ she said , standing in the upper gallery and gazing at the magnificent views from the windows . |
| 13 | She stood up , holding her hands to her face , laughing and weeping at the same time , gasping for breath , feeling her heart and only finally throwing her arms up in joy . |
| 14 | ‘ She could write a little essay on any subject , exactly a slate long , beginning at the left-hand top of one side and ending at the right-hand bottom of the other , and the essay should be strictly according to rule . ’ |
| 15 | Everybody reacted as one , condemning this nonsense and laughing at the bare-faced cheek of it . |
| 16 | He was crying and laughing at the same time . |
| 17 | When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that . |
| 18 | For here his father was , sitting down beside him , hugging and kissing him , taking his hand again and laughing at the silly terrors his little game had aroused in his son . |
| 19 | Changes in proposed greenbelt boundaries affecting a given area , and occurring at the consultative draft stage of local plans and or pre-map stage and the formal deposit of those plans , and or between the deposit copies and proposals subsequently issued by county and local planning authorities by way of desired changes to deposit copies , militate against , and may totally inhibit in relation to that area , emergence within the meaning of the national doctrine most recently propagated in paragraph er within erm paragraph thirty two of the revised version of P P G number One . |
| 20 | Nails was laughing and shivering at the same time , so excited that he felt almost ill with it . |
| 21 | Somehow her own anger and his frustration together turned into a mutual all-embracing passion , and they clung together , hating and loving at the same time . |
| 22 | How lovely , thought Winnie , letting her knitting fall and looking at the leaping flames , if she agreed ! |
| 23 | Then she saw how he was staring at her habit , and looking at the two grooms . |
| 24 | ‘ Well ? ’ she pressed him , sitting up and looking at the broad back facing her . |
| 25 | We too are part of the whole subject area ourselves : our own can be immensely varied , and looking at the various ways people have responded to the natural energies manifesting at ancient sites is central . |
| 26 | And looking at the Palestinian revolution ‘ trom a viewpoint higher than my own ’ he regards it as ultimately a revolt reaching to the limits of Islam , a ‘ calling for a revision , probably even a rejection , of a theology as soporific as a Breton cradle ’ ( p. 88 ) . |
| 27 | Outside the gallery a group of curious bystanders gathered , staring and leering at the nude painting . |
| 28 | Modernity began in earnest with this industrialism — like the starting up of a great steam-driven machine , straining and clanking at the mechanical bit and snorting with impatience to be off . |
| 29 | With a small , helpless moan she surrendered to the muscular arms tightening like a vice about her , gazing up at his hawk-like features thrown into sharp , dramatic relief by the pale moonlight , and trembling at the dangerous gleam in the eyes devouring her from beneath their heavy lids . |
| 30 | Still sucking in lungfuls of air and wincing at the detonating roar of Duvall 's automatic pistol , Cardiff began to haul himself to his feet again by one arm , his gun hand hanging limp . |