Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent the morning sitting on the floor and the afternoon standing up at the shelf . |
| 2 | I have heard that even if they lose 15 per cent of the money coming in at the moment , some of them could fold . |
| 3 | Craig Grenfell stood on the hilltop looking down at the scene in the graveyard below . |
| 4 | The story going around at the time was that he had ticked off the Lebanese bureau staff to the point where they sold him to Hezbollah for a bit of peace and quiet ! |
| 5 | I would be sitting in the car looking out at the fascinating scenery , my mum and my brother would be doing the same , my sister would be looking at a book and my dad would be driving . |
| 6 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 7 | Indeed , if you are lucky , on a clear day you might just be able to see the spring bubbling up at the bottom of the pond . |
| 8 | When we went into the foyer , there was a uniformed porter on duty at the desk and a small dark man in his early fifties standing at the window looking out at the rain , a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth . |
| 9 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 10 | With the rain teeming down at the Manor , Italy seemed a long way off — too far for United . |
| 11 | Halfway down we caught up with them outside the Trift Hotel and sat together in the sunshine on the veranda looking up at the peaks , eating spaghetti and drinking beer . |
| 12 | Somehow , after half an hour , I was at the top looking back at the sign which warned ‘ Rapide Descente 300 metres ’ . |
| 13 | They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins . |
| 14 | We lay in the grass looking up at the sky and the fluttering leaves on the silver birch trees , sucking on our reed stalks and talking about girls . |
| 15 | A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees . |
| 16 | Now Jaq understood the function of that helmet he had seen the Governor wearing out at the spaceport under the open sky . |
| 17 | AFTER THEY HAD WRITTEN ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ , a plugger called Guy Holmes — who may or may not have heard the song working out at the Putney gym , the Dance Attic , which Fred managed and Richard worked at — got interested . |
| 18 | ‘ Cream cakes … with all the cream oozing out at the sides . |
| 19 | Just before dusk one of the villagers , walking through the church grounds , saw the abbe in the garden looking down at the carp pond . |
| 20 | But for Major 's official papers , the pantechnicon drawing up at the back door might be unnecessary . |
| 21 | There was a man standing over the patient looking down at the face completely encased in bandages . |
| 22 | As I sat in the mouth of the cave looking out at the change in the weather , I wondered how a man in the Old Stone Age must have felt , staring out at the rain , knowing that if it did n't let up soon he 'd have to go out in it and knock a mammoth on the head for tea . |