Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at [pers pn] [prep] the " 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 | All the time those steady , golden eyes had fascinated her — and now they were looking steadily at her along the barrel of a gun . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ she answered , smiling freely at him for the first time that evening . |