Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you I 've heard them shouting at him . |
| 2 | part of her expected to find them laughing at his wild reaction beyond all sense and to return her to the blessed normal but when she looked around only Maggie stood in the room . |
| 3 | No-one said much to me at tea , although I caught them looking at me sometimes as they sipped at their mugs . |
| 4 | who found me staring at you in a store |
| 5 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 6 | Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates . |
| 7 | So at 10.30 the next morning we found ourselves waiting at Lochranza , the most northerly point of the island . |
| 8 | I would n't want us to find ourselves talking at cross-purposes . |
| 9 | I mean it 's , it 's er , it needs somebody working at it full time |
| 10 | Now , with his head pointing upwards , he found himself gazing at the ridge , as over the sky-line came the silent , moving , red-tinged cumuli . |
| 11 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
| 12 | The membrane broke open and he found himself looking at a little horse 's head lying upon a pair of stretched out forelegs , a perfect little head with shell-like curling nostrils and a narrow white blaze , and wet , flattened-down ears . |
| 13 | Delaney found himself looking at a cargo vessel with a very high superstructure three-quarters aft . |
| 14 | ‘ Good luck , ’ he called , and found himself looking at Nell . |
| 15 | To his amazement he found himself looking at Tina . |
| 16 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 17 | Huy found himself looking at the man 's lips alone , and the spittle switching from one to the other , in horrified fascination and to the exclusion of everything else . |
| 18 | It was the first time he had loved a carpet , and now he found himself looking at carpets in shop windows . |
| 19 | Lewis found himself looking at three puzzled faces . |
| 20 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 21 | He found himself walking at a steady pace towards those meaty shoulders . |
| 22 | After work in several London hotels and gambling clubs in the early '80's he bought a pub and when this failed he found himself waiting at Phyllis Court before coming to the Golf Club . |
| 23 | But in attempting to discover why the Russian Revolution followed the path it did , he found himself arriving at the conclusion that , far from being a ‘ false ’ deviation , in the circumstances of history Stalinism had been necessary . |
| 24 | Without meaning to , O found himself staring at them too . |
| 25 | Francis lifted his head above the edge of the display and found himself staring at a confusing picture of pipes and girders . |
| 26 | he wants , he wants somebody looking at him and saying well |
| 27 | Lee found herself gazing at the pubes of a woman a little way along from her and thinking about undergrowths and mazes and secrets and magic and dirt . |
| 28 | She found herself gazing at Roman 's secretary-receptionist with an effort at detachment , trying to pin-point the exact logical reason for this rush of unprecedented hatred towards someone she barely knew . |
| 29 | Lindsey found herself gazing at a fully equipped unit that would have done credit to any major hospital . |
| 30 | Leaning away slightly as Ibn Fayoud enveloped her in his gowns and aftershave , Kelly found herself looking at a smiling Annie . |