Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " 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 | Ho was looking at him now with a sneer on his face . |
| 5 | It was over as soon as it had happened , and as he turned in panic he could see that in reality she was exactly as before … except that she was looking at him now in a way that was more detached , stepping back as if to observe whatever he was going to do next . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Celia was aware of Dr Shalcross looking at her intently across the desk . |
| 8 | But why was he looking at her now with no sign of warmth in his glance ? |
| 9 | He tilted her face , looking at her deeply for a moment and then letting her go . |
| 10 | The way he was looking at it right at the end when he 's looking back at him and he |
| 11 | Er be difficult to say because er looking at it purely from the mercenary side of the business , |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ What , you mean to be a kind of private prompter , whispering at him right through the play ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Was it his fancy that he saw Phil Jordan staring at him morosely through an upper window ? |
| 16 | There was a frightened gasp and the ghost rose , too , staring at him out of the two hollows that were its eyes . |
| 17 | It was as if Lady Lavinia herself had come back to life , and sat staring at her out of the malevolence in her soul . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If I had a gun here yeah and I knew and you were coming at me like with a club and I shouted , Stop . |
| 21 | He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye . |