Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura gasped breathlessly as he raised his dark head , gazing fondly up at the man she loved so much . |
| 2 | As Ross watched her gazing fondly down at the babies , whose heads were already covered with dark hair , and — so Laura had firmly informed him — were carbon copies of their father , he knew that he was an incredibly lucky man . |
| 3 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |
| 4 | She sat for maybe ten minutes staring gloomily out at the rain , which gave no sign of abating , knowing her options were limited to a choice of one . |
| 5 | But when he looked up , the dwarf above him was standing , arms limp like a ragged doll , staring dully down at the crossbow bolt buried in his stomach . |
| 6 | A momentary disorientation took him when he found that not only could he not move , but that he was staring straight up at the sky , and there appeared to be no ground underneath him . |
| 7 | She gave an irritated sigh and flung herself back on the pillows , staring straight up at the ceiling . |
| 8 | I like it because it 's old , and grey , and dark , and yet I hate — ’ He did not finish what he was saying , staring angrily up at the windows on the top floor of his house . |
| 9 | Their horses were saddled and waiting , their farewells to the prior and brothers already made , and Hugh just reaching for his bridle , when Nicol came trudging sturdily in at the gatehouse , soiled and bruised and hoisting himself along on a staff he had cut for himself in the forest . |
| 10 | Instead of staring blankly out at the world , or nervously striking at the fence , as some of the eagles did , he trekked back and forth in a figure of eight over an area that was only one tiny part of his caged area . |
| 11 | Laura lapsed into a glum silence , staring blindly over at the children , who were now sitting on the grass , busily trying to make daisy chains . |
| 12 | Gav stood by the hall table , shifting his weight from side to side and glancing nervously down at the phone now and again . |
| 13 | Bob lay in bed gazing vaguely up at the ceiling , which was glowing red in the light from the gas-fire , not entirely sure whether he was awake or asleep . |
| 14 | If the participants intend to circle a block , arriving eventually back at the starting point , they probably would be processing . |
| 15 | That night was spent wrapped in a duvet , sitting on the windowsill in her room , gazing blindly out at the panorama of snow and ice below . |
| 16 | Small signs of a Conservative Party ‘ turquoise tendency ’ had emerged from the Bow Group which criticised the UK for ‘ trailing lamely along at the back of the international pack ’ and proposed a new Clean Air Act to halve the output of SO&sub2 ; . |
| 17 | The night before last we saw a racoon swaying mindlessly around at the side of the road under the influence of headlights . |