Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | There she is , in the other photograph , guileless and fervent , leaning forward across her desk , philosophizing away at me from the broad steppe of her Slavic soul . |
2 | He just stood looking down at her for a moment , his eyes still pleading , and then abruptly he turned and picked up the tray and carried it into the kitchen for her . |
3 | He was looking down at her with a superior , amused smile on his face . |
4 | ‘ I am ready , ’ he announced , pulling himself to the edge of the pool and looking down at her with no expression on his face to give her any clue about his attitude . |
5 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
6 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
7 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
8 | So clearly now , the , there 's some merit in looking afresh at it in the light of five B , being able to match the kind of funding that 's available there . |
9 | She 'd bent down to pick up the purchases at her feet , and as she rose again she 'd caught sight of a face she knew , looking straight at her through the moving mesh of people . |
10 | He lay grinning up at me on the water , spreadeagled on his back with his arms splayed . |
11 | She was looking up at me with an expression of concern . |
12 | She closed it and leaned against it , looking up at me in an unconsciously provocative attitude . |
13 | Viola Machin , panting , looked hard at Hilda 's pert little face looking up at her with a twisted , triumphant smile . |
14 | ‘ That was my original intention , ’ Anya confesses , looking up at her with a rueful smile . |
15 | He had come to lean against the foot of the banisters , looking up at her with a spark of challenge in his eyes . |
16 | Guido took a mouthful of his drink and paused in what he was saying , looking up at her with an amused , curious glint in his eye . |
17 | Meredith , looking up at it in the sunshine , felt five years old again . |
18 | She slipped it off its hanger and held it against herself and it was almost as if the face looking back at her from the mirror across it was fourteen years old again . |
19 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
20 | Roxie Farmer was still sitting in the police car , looking out at them with an expressionless face . |
21 | He had a picture of her sitting permanently on the edge of a table at Dubal 's swinging one leg and looking out at him from the group she was with . |
22 | Henry lowered himself into the driver 's seat and stood looking out at her for a moment . |
23 | This was my cue but Alec was looking across at me with a grin that was too eager and I faltered . |
24 | As he was moving away , he paused , and looking round at us with a smile on his face , he said , ‘ Oh yes , and a direct hit on the newly-dug shithouse … shit everywhere ! ’ |
25 | All the time those steady , golden eyes had fascinated her — and now they were looking steadily at her along the barrel of a gun . |
26 | ‘ Funny little faces peering down at me through the branches overhead . |
27 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
28 | It was only a couple coming in from the terrace , and she was about to look away again when she caught sight of a tall , stooping man standing outside and peering lugubriously at her through the glass . |
29 | Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window . |
30 | It was a large black dog with large orb-like eyes gazing up at him with a malevolent gaze . |