Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | For actually glancing down and looking at a clock |
| 2 | A hand fastened like an iron clamp on my shoulder and I was flung off her , Ward bending down and shouting at her , ‘ Ye silly , stupid bitch ! ’ |
| 3 | The implication has been all along that they 're using the same United States manufacturing source but in fact there are one or two discrepancies here , erm , because the value is so high , I 'm actually sort of going through and looking at everything pretty closely , and they 've changed the basis so wow , . |
| 4 | Rushing about the Rante , attached like Siamese twins by a synch-pulse cable , tripping over and swearing at each other , burying our heads for mysterious minutes in black film-changing bags , endlessly sticking our noses into other people 's business was a cause for considerable levity amongst the participants . |
| 5 | The kids at my new school all went round in little gangs , spoiling for a fight — nothing serious , just pushing other kids over and jeering at them . |
| 6 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 7 | It 's no good coming over and looking at me like that Rick . |
| 8 | Even though critics may not be as learned as their art-historical colleagues , there is no good reason for their practised eyes to cloud over when looking at art of other periods . |
| 9 | It is a bit like using spectacles to see with , and taking them off and looking at them . |
| 10 | Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence . |
| 11 | I remember Trevor [ Howard ] just standing up and looking at him , mouthing a bad word and walking out of the room . |
| 12 | ‘ Well ? ’ she pressed him , sitting up and looking at the broad back facing her . |
| 13 | Maggie announced , sitting up and looking at him seriously . |
| 14 | Recently up and running at the Minerva factory is a figurine casting machine and at the Eagle factory a new computer-controlled dust-press is in the initial stages of producing earthenware flatware . |
| 15 | Village Inn The new season is up and running at this venue with packed houses every Thursday night . |
| 16 | The first race was off at two fifteen but on race day Cheltenham is up and running at first light . |
| 17 | Hector was before her , leaping up and barking at his mistress . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going to help you , ’ he said , jumping up and smiling at her . |
| 19 | In the picture Stuart held , his father was grinning self-consciously in his formal dress , at least a head taller than his wife who hung on his arm , looking up and laughing at her husband . |
| 20 | Julia Verity was looking to start a business by buying a house in Henley , doing it up and selling at a profit . |
| 21 | It 's not only a working instrument but the kind of guitar that you feel like picking up and playing at any time ; when it 's not wowing the punters it will probably spend its time lying on the sofa permanently on call . |
| 22 | ‘ This game told me that we need all our good players to be up and playing at their peak , but I felt that we did n't do that tonight . ’ |
| 23 | Lord Home belied his reputation for laziness — the commonly-held view of the elder statesman , as the British prototype for Ronald Reagan , did n't hold water : up and working at 6.30 every morning , even if he did spend uncommon amounts of time in trout streams . |
| 24 | ‘ Hello , my dearies ! ’ said the tramp , sitting up and squinting at them . |
| 25 | This puts me in mind of the last Top of The Pops I watched , a show replete with beflared , poncho 'd , kaftan 'd persons doing psychotropic ‘ dances ’ , tripping out and boogieing at the same time . |
| 26 | The hummingbirds become particularly hostile , buzzing around the big bird 's head , as close as 2 inches from its face , calling out and jabbing at its eyes . |
| 27 | The sowing of the seed of the gospel does not happen just with a look , any more than the sowing of barley occurs by the farmer going out and smiling at his field . |
| 28 | ‘ There were arms everywhere , pulling him back and tugging at his shirt , and they got away with it just about every time . ’ |
| 29 | He sat there for quite a while , grinning at her , then looking away , then looking back and grinning at her again . |
| 30 | ‘ What you on about ? ’ she said , leaning back and looking at him . |