Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 2 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 3 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 4 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He turned away , looking round him at the great nest of screens and machinery . |
| 8 | ‘ Sit down , sit down , ’ said Owen hurriedly , looking around him at the crowded cafe . |
| 9 | The gardener was waiting for them at the front door . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Georgi Kirov was waiting for him at the appointed place and time . |
| 12 | Cranston was waiting for him at the small tavern just outside Aldgate in the Portsoken overlooking the stinking city ditch . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yeah , and I do n't now but i I mean I 'm certainly in two I 've been since there 's people who 've referred to the fact that they do n't have those members of staff working for them at the optimum days , |