Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He just stood looking down at her for a moment , his eyes still pleading , and then abruptly he turned and picked up the tray and carried it into the kitchen for her . |
| 2 | He was looking down at her with a superior , amused smile on his face . |
| 3 | ‘ I am ready , ’ he announced , pulling himself to the edge of the pool and looking down at her with no expression on his face to give her any clue about his attitude . |
| 4 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 5 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 6 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 7 | He lay grinning up at me on the water , spreadeagled on his back with his arms splayed . |
| 8 | She was looking up at me with an expression of concern . |
| 9 | She closed it and leaned against it , looking up at me in an unconsciously provocative attitude . |
| 10 | Viola Machin , panting , looked hard at Hilda 's pert little face looking up at her with a twisted , triumphant smile . |
| 11 | ‘ That was my original intention , ’ Anya confesses , looking up at her with a rueful smile . |
| 12 | He had come to lean against the foot of the banisters , looking up at her with a spark of challenge in his eyes . |
| 13 | Guido took a mouthful of his drink and paused in what he was saying , looking up at her with an amused , curious glint in his eye . |
| 14 | Meredith , looking up at it in the sunshine , felt five years old again . |
| 15 | She slipped it off its hanger and held it against herself and it was almost as if the face looking back at her from the mirror across it was fourteen years old again . |
| 16 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
| 17 | Roxie Farmer was still sitting in the police car , looking out at them with an expressionless face . |
| 18 | He had a picture of her sitting permanently on the edge of a table at Dubal 's swinging one leg and looking out at him from the group she was with . |
| 19 | Henry lowered himself into the driver 's seat and stood looking out at her for a moment . |
| 20 | As he was moving away , he paused , and looking round at us with a smile on his face , he said , ‘ Oh yes , and a direct hit on the newly-dug shithouse … shit everywhere ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Funny little faces peering down at me through the branches overhead . |
| 22 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
| 23 | Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window . |
| 24 | It was a large black dog with large orb-like eyes gazing up at him with a malevolent gaze . |
| 25 | Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course , Doctor , ’ murmured Judy , gazing up at him through the dark crescents of her attractively long lashes . |
| 27 | Artemis looked up at her father and found him staring down at her with a deep frown , as if to say , Artemis felt , that she should have known . |
| 28 | He was holding her hand and staring down at her with an extraordinary expression on his face that she had never seen before . |
| 29 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 30 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |