Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say that you can easily spot the tourists in the Big Apple — they are the people walking around gazing at the sky , at the tops of the skyscrapers . |
| 2 | Vomiting often comes at the close of a chill ; vomiting of bile between the chill and the heat . |
| 3 | Mr F W Lindgren , a Life Vice President of the Association , whose service on Central Council extended o0ver 45 years and who is now permanently living overseas resigned at the end of the year . |
| 4 | The position with regard to face-to-face transactions is considered first , before going on to look at the position in relation to impersonal stock market deals . |
| 5 | Before going on to look at the Government 's proposals in detail , we want to underline our serious concern over the threat to strategic minerals planning associated with the proposed reorganisation of local government in Wales . |
| 6 | They will vouch that I stayed here , doing-accounts , going out to look at the carving which were being made for the pageant for the king 's coronation . ’ |
| 7 | I had become more and more interested in the business world , going back to work at the bank in Newcastle during my vacations , so I was looking for a general business career . ’ |
| 8 | Turning back to look at the door , he could see no manual locking mechanism — only a circular brass inset that seemed to need a special key . |
| 9 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 10 | He was turning about to look at the view and the slope of grass back up to the road . |
| 11 | The father was just moving round to sit at the head of the table when the mother came sweeping out of the kitchen carrying a huge plate piled high with eggs and sausages and bacon and tomatoes . |
| 12 | She cut through the heady memories and concentrated her mind on what Steve was saying while she watched a superb glossy white yacht coming in to berth at the jetty not fifty metres from the window of the restaurant . |
| 13 | Strombolian activity , then , is a bit noisier than Hawaiian , but it 's still not particularly dangerous — there are two villages on Stromboli only a couple of kilometres from the ever-active vent , and the inhabitants rarely have cause to worry about whether they will live to see the sun rise on another day , or on another boatload of visitors coming across to look at the volcano . |
| 14 | The men worked steadily on , taking long breaks at the height of the day . |
| 15 | ‘ And you 're not having this dress , ’ Nora said , bending down to look at the price tag . |
| 16 | The sensation of falling typically occurs at the beginning of the night , during Stage I sleep . |
| 17 | Athelstan blessed the man , holding his hand , reassuring his good wife that all would be well whilst trying not to look at the blood . |
| 18 | He was looking skywards the way he did as a player : he would flick at the ball with the outside of his left foot while leaning back looking at the sky . |
| 19 | PERHAPS feeling somewhat piscine at the time the organisers of North-East Norwegian Week insisted on announcing that something fishy would mark its start at the MetroCentre . |
| 20 | But such was the power of those two softly spoken words that Ronni found her head jerking up to look at the speaker , barely aware of her brother 's muttered response as he hoisted her cases up on to the jetty . |
| 21 | She could see it in the covert glances of the London girls , some of whom had been planning how to look at the Belvoir dance for the past month . |