Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped walking and looked at the scrubland now directly in front of them . |
| 2 | Bobbing and bobbing at the well-wall |
| 3 | They could hear Oliver banging and kicking at the cellar door . |
| 4 | But what struck like an ice-cold knife into Owen 's heart was the group of six or seven men standing in the middle of the road , between him and the fire , laughing and jeering at the villagers ' puny efforts to save their homes . |
| 5 | A small boy in pyjamas put down the basket he was weaving and looked at the face for a second or two , then turned back to his basket . |
| 6 | Quiss clawed at the wall , tearing the faded , yellowing books away from it , throwing them behind him like a dog digging a hole in the sand , bellowing incoherently and tearing and swiping at the wall , baring the green-black slate beneath as the torn , ripped pages fluttered away behind him falling to the grimy glass floor like some flat , grubby snow . |
| 7 | He was groaning and clawing at the pillow . |
| 8 | But certainly he 'll be pushing and pushing at the front there and making runs to get in the back all night I 'm I 'm certain of that . |
| 9 | Current Department of Agriculture inspection methods — feeling , smelling and looking at the food — were judged inappropriate as , in the case of fish , they can not not detect the toxins . |
| 10 | A tale of when Saltash was a busy riverside fishing town and , so it was said , Saltash lads and maidens were noted everywhere for their smart trick of turning their hand to everything , including fishing , gardening , boat building , oyster dredging and pulling at the regatta for prizes , is that of boatswain 's mate Charles Hoskins and his sweetheart , Bessie Lee . |
| 11 | He could imagine her posed , mouth moistly open , hips jutting and staring at the cameras with that apparently obligatory look of arrogant resentment . |
| 12 | To be fair to be fair to him I think that he would erm he 's set his heart on going and working at the lawn mower place on the production line |
| 13 | They found a pocket of spring/summer oscillation and camped overnight there , conscious that just yards away a biting winter was flaring and dying , the trees sprouting , then blackening again , as if the buds were tiny creatures , grasping and snatching at the light , then quickly tugging back into their wood-bark holes . |
| 14 | Alexei signalled to one of the engine tenders , and the man fiddled with the levers so that the rods rising and falling at the top of the funnel slowed jerkily and then stopped . |
| 15 | Mossop , faithful both to preference and history , remained in the car whilst Harry walked up the front path , trying to ignore the ravenous alsatian growling and tearing at the neighbour 's fence . |
| 16 | But erm the idea is have this up and running and look at the problems . |
| 17 | On behalf of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I wish to register an objection to the application for an entertainment licence for music , dancing and singing at the Priory Restaurant , Scorton . |
| 18 | Shelley started sorting the patients ' cards into order , and wonderered why she felt a little hurt at the thought of Victoria coming and going at the Casa Madrid . |
| 19 | Well , she went , like balling and shouting at the top of her voice , I mean , she talks to Terry like shit . |
| 20 | Sooner , rather than later , and generally after a few stiff drams , Joicey would break into the Gaelic , roaring and shouting at the top of his voice : ‘ Man to man it was in those days . |
| 21 | Both groups trained to attend to the sounds of words were significantly better at reading and spelling at the end of the study than the untrained group . |
| 22 | The shop bell had tinkled frequently for the past hour , most of the customers having been the ha'penny and penny ones , some of whom were now standing outside at the shop window oohing and aahing at the Christmas goodies displayed there , all entwined with coloured streamers and illuminated by the two gas lamps attached to the side wall of the shop and plopping inside their pretty pink glass globes , while casting a rosy light overall , even over the small faces pressed against the window . |
| 23 | Still liking it , still doing it , Gerry Marsden keeps rocking and rolling at the Apollo tonight . |
| 24 | In the time of the Tudors and Stuarts ( the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ) , London came to dominate the rest of the country , controlling and prospering at the expense of other towns and of villages . |
| 25 | Round about four o'clock in the afternoon he would sometimes forget Morris and sprawl back in his chair with his hands behind his head , yawning and looking at the ceiling , just as he had before Morris 's arrival . |
| 26 | General Carson laid down the slip of paper he had been studying and looked at the colonel seated across the table from him . |
| 27 | At first we could see nothing , our eyes hurting and smarting at the strain as well as the biting night air . |
| 28 | Today he was quiet all right , standing and looking at the weather maps with the rest of his crew , smoking a cigarette with jerky hands . |
| 29 | Do not attempt to give massage at floor level when standing and bending at the waist ; this is even more harmful to your back than using a bed . |
| 30 | He fiddled with a piece of card he was carrying and glowered at the exit to the Customs hall as if he was expecting his worst enemy to come through the door . |