Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 32 | The two boys stood looking down at the heaps of feathers . |
| 33 | He stood by the large window , looking down on the lights of Leeds . |
| 34 | A stroll in the moonlight by the old St Joseph 's seminary and the lake , and then looking down on the lights of Wigan . |
| 35 | As the sea is calm I turn in to a narrow cleft on the headland , cutting the engine and gliding in between the faces of grey rock to let my passengers get the flavour of the sights and sounds of a Shetland geo . |
| 36 | Tony and his friends made their way to the bar — homing pigeons coasting along on the wings of thirst . |
| 37 | But light was spilling in through the seams of the door at the far end of the room ; crimson , glowing light from whatever lay on the other side . |
| 38 | Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country . |
| 39 | He stood up and picked up the candle and went wandering off into the shadows with it . |
| 40 | Carolyn was picking up on the movements of the three women , which had seemed so mysteriously random at first . |
| 41 | But they are unable to process this and obviously that will be different for children at different stages of their development erm younger children being particularly susceptible to the sort of atmosphere around them , and if they are picking up from the adults around them , be that through the media or within the context of their everyday lives , that there is something dangerous and disturbing going on , then they are obviously going to reflect that unease in their behaviour . |
| 42 | An old boat lay half-submerged against the bank with reeds pushing up through the holes in its hull . |
| 43 | Arts teachers are also not seen as helping their own cause in as much as classroom practices in the arts might not be living up to the expectations of other professional staff . |
| 44 | For me it was certainly a healthy life , living up on the wolds after two years in the marshy lowlands of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon . |
| 45 | In the Mala Strana , the secretaries and the artists , the nurses and the busmen return to their apartments , the lights go on in the high windows , the courtyard below us is filling up with the smells of food and voices discussing — what ? |
| 46 | In other words , controlling as he did the nominations to all learned appointments in whichever of the areas he was then kazasker , he would urge young scholars to enter the relative dead end of the career of kasabat kadi and thereby prevent them from passing up through the ranks of medreses to become candidates for mevleviyets and thus rivals to his own position . |
| 47 | When he gets time off from a fairly packed schedule after The Eleventh Station he 'll be teaming up with the Muscles from Brussels , Jean Claude van Damme , in a film called Universal Soldier Dolph relaxes by playing the drums . |
| 48 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 49 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 50 | Then Bunny , battling his way against the flow of the children , appeared in the hall and halted for a moment , the belt of his mackintosh undone , looking up at the windows of the rehearsal room . |
| 51 | ‘ Yes , ’ he replied , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 52 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 53 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 54 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 55 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
| 56 | Like lying on one 's back as we did in Spain when we slept out looking up between the fig-branches into the star-corridors , the great seas and oceans of stars . |
| 57 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 58 | ‘ The scientists said , ‘ Oh , beware of the chiggers ’ , and the first day we went out , in our shorts and flip-flops , looking up in the trees for these chiggers — we thought they might be big furry things . |
| 59 | But this this is spilling out onto the steps of the place . |
| 60 | But looking back to the principles of Beveridge 's plan for welfare , one of the main conditions which the originators made , in order that a workable system might evolve , was that reasonably full employment be maintained . |