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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This was my cue but Alec was looking across at me with a grin that was too eager and I faltered . |
| 5 | All the time those steady , golden eyes had fascinated her — and now they were looking steadily at her along the barrel of a gun . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The group of pirates had clustered in one corner of the bar , and we all staring directly at me in an unblinking , bloody-icing way . |
| 8 | The tanker driver , Derrick Worrell from Bath told the coroner he saw the car coming straight at him on the wrong side of the white line . |
| 9 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 10 | These are usually concealed and then flashed at the last moment , giving the prospective predator the impression that it is approaching a much larger animal and one that is staring straight at it in a defiant manner . |
| 11 | Holding her breath , she waited while Luke Calder walked round and climbed behind the wheel , starting the engine before glancing sideways at her with a mocking little smile . |
| 12 | Charles 's earliest memory is playing quietly on the floor with a train set while his mother sat sobbing on the edge of the bed , his father smiling weakly at him in a forlorn attempt to reassure his son that everything was all right . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ she answered , smiling freely at him for the first time that evening . |