Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] at [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
| 6 | Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
| 9 | When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself . |
| 10 | It was only then that he became aware of the stench of fetid breath as the figure drew its lips back over yellowing teeth to snarl at him again ; only then that he saw raging , bloodshot eyes glaring out at him from the hair covered face . |
| 11 | ‘ Look out , ’ she cried as tongues of flame blow-torched from the crevices around the bung and came licking back at us from the firebox . |
| 12 | And mummy 's smiling in at him from the outside , look she 's hanging the washing out pretending not to notice what 's going on . |
| 13 | He would flow unchallenged through his role of the Gypsy Baron , his ego fed on the ripples of admiration seeping back at him from the auditorium . |