Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw William looking at him curiously across the crowd and then detach himself from the group he was with and move towards them . |
| 2 | Then he noticed that a boy , who had passed him a few minutes before , had returned , and was now looking at him carefully from the opposite side of the road . |
| 3 | Because when , after seven or eight long seconds of genuine respect , he saw Howard looking at him out of the corner of his eye , he hastily hid the bottle of sherry behind his back and bowed his head . |
| 4 | Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger . |
| 5 | Celia was aware of Dr Shalcross looking at her intently across the desk . |
| 6 | The way he was looking at it right at the end when he 's looking back at him and he |
| 7 | Er be difficult to say because er looking at it purely from the mercenary side of the business , |
| 8 | That said , the whole area of interactive video — if that is indeed where your proposal lies — is so far from being a developed market that we are looking at it only in the most tentative of ways . |
| 9 | ‘ What , you mean to be a kind of private prompter , whispering at him right through the play ? ’ |
| 10 | They cursed and uttered muttered threats to desert , but on and on they walked until they made out a herd of wild cattle staring at them hostilely through the rain , and clambered aboard . |
| 11 | There was a frightened gasp and the ghost rose , too , staring at him out of the two hollows that were its eyes . |
| 12 | It was as if Lady Lavinia herself had come back to life , and sat staring at her out of the malevolence in her soul . |
| 13 | As I waited at the King 's Stairs for my boat back to Venturous I was approached by two very splendidly attired and heavily braided Merchant Service Officers whom I had noticed staring at me curiously during the reception . |
| 14 | As we passed Number 110 , I spotted Mrs Shorrocks staring at me out of the window , sporting her usual black eye and a mass of different coloured bruises which she collected from Bert most Saturday nights . |
| 15 | Thankfully , there 'd been no traffic coming ; the concept of striking up an intimate — indeed potentially penetrative — relationship with the rocks on the far side of the road had been bad enough ; but even the prospect of a head-on with another lump of metal travelling at anything remotely like the sort of speed we were sustaining might have resulted in me making my mark in the most embarrassing fashion on the leather upholstery of the Bavarian macht-wagen . |
| 16 | He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye . |