Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] at [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was leaning against the parapet rail , gazing down at the brick terrace several floors below . |
| 2 | She 'd got the job after being made redundant and signing on at the job centre . |
| 3 | ‘ The sort of people John Smith was winding up at the Trade Union Conference about a return to a Golden Age , when they were back in the driving seat and great rights for their members , and a friendly government again — some of those people are beginning to make noises . |
| 4 | I cough again looking down at the tile floor of the room . |
| 5 | One hour later , Rose stood at the window of his room looking down at the harbour scene . |
| 6 | Looking in at the observation ward , with its partly screened beds , she hoped that Mike Quinn — poor man — would n't take it into his head to go in a hurry . |
| 7 | Twenty four year old builder Ian Baxter , from Tilehurst in Reading , threatened to slice up the driver of a petrol tanker with a builder 's grinder when prevented from filling up at the Blewberry Service Station in Oxfordshire ; he hit the driver with the grinder , knocking out two of his teeth . |
| 8 | They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand . |
| 9 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 10 | ( An image from another life : lying below Broken Boy , looking up at the summer sky through the broken reaches of the creature 's antlers . |
| 11 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 12 | Standing looking up at the east front , he knew that the Alpheus lay to the south , on his left , and the Cladeus flowed into it from his right . |
| 13 | In Ontario , cities are colourful , sophisticated , vibrant and friendly — there 's something going on at every street corner . |
| 14 | One such exercise is going on at the Building Research Establishment . |
| 15 | Every one hundred thousand Soviet immigrants delays by one year the deadline , soon they will be pouring in at the record rate of twenty a thousand month . |
| 16 | Should be a few goals going in at the Baseball Ground on Sunday … the central live match is Derby County against Oxford United … |
| 17 | Hundreds were able to pay their respects and express their condolences by turning up at a charity rugby match at Shiplake College , Berkshire , in aid of the Charlotte Starmer-Smith Memorial Fund which aims to purchase medical equipment for the treatment of blood diseases . |
| 18 | At a Labour conference you get Gerry Adams turning up at a fringe meeting , and he the leader of Sinn Fein , which is cousin to the IRA , which in 1984 , in this same town , blew up the Grand Hotel in an attempt to murder the Prime Minister and Cabinet . |
| 19 | Leland Palmer ignores him , doing what all good rock'n'roll drivers do : pointing out the house where Robin Williams lives , pulling up at a liquor store , and drawing our attention to a woman with an exceptionally large arse riding a bike . |
| 20 | We talked of toxic wastes ; the possibility of there ever being true democracy in Tonga ( ‘ on paper the place is ripe for revolution , it is true , and our friends in the other islands are experiencing troubled times , so we must be wary ’ ) ; the complaints about corruption among the Tongan nobility , the curious business arrangements engineered between members of the royal family and the dubious Americans who were forever fetching up at the palace doorstep wishing to bend a royal ear to this scheme or that , with wealth and fame for all ; and the most surprising news : his decision to demolish the royal palace . |
| 21 | He seemed to be gazing up at the night sky . |
| 22 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 23 | Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life . |
| 24 | Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton . |
| 25 | Some hotshot parents cheat by calling in at the food store and ordering a gourmet prawn salad for 20 — at a cost of $60 . |
| 26 | I was pretty odd for Blackheath but not in comparison with the people who were hanging out at the It office . |
| 27 | But mainly she kept on bodyboarding on the quieter waves between Sunset and Backyards , going to parties , hanging out at the Sugar Bar , and talking to her friends on the telephone . |
| 28 | Pavel sat gazing out at the loading area as the man looked through a small number of memos and facsimile messages . |
| 29 | ‘ I tell you what I really do n't like , ’ he says , staring down at the club floor below , ‘ I do n't like if I do n't know who are friends and who are enemies . |
| 30 | Buckingham sat , hands together , staring down at the table top , his face registering surprise and shock at Sir John 's words . |