Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] at [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To its horror it will find itself slipping and sliding , tumbling down at the mercy of its foes . |
| 2 | Court Four of the Royal Courts of Justice in London was packed with judges and barristers to hear the support lent to Lord Lane , who announced in February that he was stepping down at the age of 73 , 18 months before the compulsory retirement age for judges . |
| 3 | Two days later Horst Teltschik ( CDU ) announced that he would be stepping down at the end of the year as Kohl 's foreign policy adviser at the Chancellery . |
| 4 | Motherwell ‘ keeper Thomson was at full stretch to smother the youngster 's shot which looked like sneaking in at the foot of the post . |
| 5 | Previous page , gearing up at the foot of the route ( photos Ed Douglas ) . |
| 6 | A RUGBY fan broke her leg after ending up at the bottom of a ruck which spilled over the sideline . |
| 7 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 8 | The Spanish reporter , Alfonso Roja , describes a woman in Baghdad , her eyes smouldering , shouting down at a crowd of Western journalists : ‘ Is this what you call Western civilisation ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We 've all got to share , ’ she said , as they passed through the swing doors and found themselves looking down at the courtyard of the Museum . |
| 10 | I was still looking down at the girl in the grass . |
| 11 | Looking down at the top of Joe 's balding pate , Michael listened to the haunting childish voice and could have cried . |
| 12 | For nearly a minute he said nothing and I had the sense to keep quiet , too , looking down at the top of his head . |
| 13 | Hal Shepherd stood at the turn of the road , his hands resting lightly on the low stone wall , looking down at the row of cottages and the bay beyond . |
| 14 | Looking down at the reflection of the stars in the still , calm sea below , she said softly , ‘ I 'm glad we came up here . |
| 15 | Craig Grenfell stood on the hilltop looking down at the scene in the graveyard below . |
| 16 | She 'll go up to you and she goes she looks at you like that and her eyes are all wide , sh sh she 's looking down at the wall like that to make sure it 's all clear , you know what I mean ? |
| 17 | Again she was silent for a moment or two , looking down at the carpet of tawny beech leaves , debris of the previous autumn , now shimmering in the dappled shafts of light which struggled through the tree canopy . |
| 18 | But now he trod carefully across the carpet to the bed and stood silently looking down at the body of Berowne . |
| 19 | And she stood looking down at the key in her hand , while she said to herself , ‘ Well , this seems to decide it , does n't it ? ’ and turning , she yelled , ‘ Ben ! ’ |
| 20 | Looking down at the curve of her cheekbone , still wet with tears , he suddenly wanted her , quite overwhelmingly . |
| 21 | I stood looking down at the pavement below the payphone while Dennis padded across the wall-to-wall carpeting and called distantly to his wife . |
| 22 | He was looking down at the pavement outside the house . |
| 23 | Looking down at the face of her lover , she smiled , daring to trace the line of his profile with a tender finger . |
| 24 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 25 | He put out a hand and smoothed the bear 's shaggy head , giving it embarrassed pats , while looking up at the bear-leader as if to say , Is that all right ? |
| 26 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 27 | They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins . |
| 28 | Sir , — May I congratulate the photographer who took the picture in last week 's edition showing a young boy looking up at the Queen with wonderment and awe . |
| 29 | But lying there beside her , listening to the susurration of the tide and looking up at the sky through a haze of grasses he was filled , not with post-coital sadness , but with an agreeable languor as if the long-committed Sunday afternoon still stretched ahead of them . |
| 30 | He was crouching underneath the pageant , looking up at the sky through the central trapdoor , waiting to be created out of a rib in Adam 's chest and become First Woman . |