Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I sat on the train and could see other commuters walking past looking at the man in horror . |
| 2 | But the stakes are so much higher than the mere semantics of the laws relating to lifting at the lineout . |
| 3 | At British general elections , vote counts are reported at constituency level only , so that where a party gets its votes is largely unknown ( though party workers have efficient ways of estimating the geography of their support when acting as scrutineers at the count ) . |
| 4 | in theory they should not be able to talk to each-other because they 're either answering the phone and talking to somebody else bloody getting on looking at the screen and typing |
| 5 | The two went noisily to the bus-stop , leaving Alice on the doorstep , stunned , and staring without seeing at the letter she had written to her mother , thrust into her hand by Monica . |
| 6 | I only saved myself from falling by clutching at the arm of the oak settle . |
| 7 | Every X , X doe X saw herself cos all the does are standing around looking at the lake , seeing their reflections so there is just a quantifier . |