Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Zach told her his age , which was nine , and spelt out his name , apologizing for it at the same time .
2 Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings .
3 Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings .
4 All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air .
5 Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room .
6 Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube .
7 He glanced back at her , then turned away , looking about him at the cluttered floor , the smoke-blackened walls , the broken ceiling of the room he was in .
8 She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot .
9 He turned away , looking round him at the great nest of screens and machinery .
10 We were looking across it at a slice-shaped building , calcined with pollution .
11 She had her back to the entrance of the garden and was looking across it at a small orchard whose fruit never found its way to the rector 's table , always being pilfered by the small street arabs of the district .
12 ‘ Sit down , sit down , ’ said Owen hurriedly , looking around him at the crowded cafe .
13 The gardener was waiting for them at the front door .
14 There would be no tall good-looking man waiting for them at the Secret Cove and , once there , she found the Place was , indeed , deserted .
15 Georgi Kirov was waiting for him at the appointed place and time .
16 Cranston was waiting for him at the small tavern just outside Aldgate in the Portsoken overlooking the stinking city ditch .
17 Bob 's phone rang , and while he was talking Dyson , who was sitting back in his chair and waiting for someone at the other end of the line , covered up the mouthpiece of his phone and said , ‘ Are you coming to the funeral , Tess ? ’
18 But after the marriage and the party , when it was time , the brougham was already waiting for us at the front door , I could n't bear to leave .
19 ‘ It 's time Dana took responsibility for her own life , instead of turning to you at every imagined crisis , ’ Myra said .
20 ‘ Those altar candles we pay so much for , we seem to be getting through them at a fair old rate .
21 Oh , sure , about as safe as a shield of plastic wrap would make her feel if a bear were charging towards her at a full gallop .
22 Coming at you at a hundred miles an hour , all the way from the beautiful UK , 4AD recording artistes , LUSH ! ’
23 ‘ I just called by to give Guy a message from my father , ’ the blonde was murmuring , glancing behind her at the half-open front door , then smiling at Virginia with such patent insincerity that she 'd have laughed if she had n't felt like crying her heart out instead …
24 I understand that the social services want to help people , but sometimes one can help people a bit more by nipping problems in the bud and dealing with them at an earlier stage .
25 The idea was of staking out the estate and counting on someone at the appropriate moment .
26 To and fro , weaving , sometimes tied back to the point , moving from point to point , guided by Jennifer , each woman deeply involved with the dual effort of formulating an opinion and arguing for it at the same time .
27 The issue , the point I 'm trying to make is that in talking for all of the bodies , whether I 'm talking about for the council or whether I 'm talking about them at the same time or separately , one thing I 'm not doing is talking from my point of view .
28 By the beginning of February 1989 he had enough to convince him that it was real , and he agreed to go public by talking about it at the American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore the following May .
29 I have seen him striding through Soho eating a sandwich and talking to himself at the same time , oblivious to the cars and traffic and noise around him , deep in thought .
30 Gooch watched Akram 's bowling as closely as a surgeon at the operating table , the ball flashing across him at an acute angle against the backdrop of a dramatic dark-blue sky .
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