Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last , when he thought he could wait no longer , he glimpsed Benedicta slip silently up the nave to join the other two members of his congregation , kneeling between them at the entrance to the rood screen . |
| 2 | He looks and the bear 's hanging off it at the side , grrr ! on the window and the man goes aargh ! and the man runs off and he gets on he gets on an aeroplane the aeroplane and he 's safe . |
| 3 | ‘ Shee-it , ’ I said , and felt guilty that I was leaving the island without sharing the chicken dinner that Sarah Straker was doubtless cooking for me at that very moment . |
| 4 | Zach told her his age , which was nine , and spelt out his name , apologizing for it at the same time . |
| 5 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
| 6 | I thought er that God wanted me to be a doctor and I did n't have a place to go to , I took my A levels having had five chances of places to be a doctor and everybody saying no , we do n't want you and erm I had everybody praying for me at church and quite miraculously at the end of the August , when I should start in the September , I had a phone call at half past ten at night from a surgeon at the London Hospital asking me to go for an interview the next day . |
| 7 | You 're not above mentioning your height , even bragging about it at times , saying you 're as good as any two men twice your size . |
| 8 | The primary source of their superior financial performance is capital gains from acquiring corporate assets and activities that , under present ownership , yield less than their opportunity values , and disposing of them at their higher market values . |
| 9 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 10 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 11 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 12 | Michael Grant , who was 24 , died within moments of a fuel oil tank exploding under him at the Midlands Electricity power station in Plough Lane , Hereford last August . |
| 13 | He had often told her that it was a social disadvantage having the sort of wife he could n't take anywhere , but he dropped this line when she started appearing beside him at literary lunches and old school do 's . |
| 14 | ‘ One tea , ’ says Ida , appearing beside us at the table , ‘ with eggs , tomatoes , chips and beans . ’ |
| 15 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 16 | They do n't really talk about what 's happened in the past , all they 're bothered about is what 's happening to them at present . |
| 17 | ‘ It is very hard for me to comprehend what is happening to me at home in Australia let alone here in Britain and around the world . |
| 18 | And it 's it i Seriously , it has happened a few I in my experience over the years I can remember it happening to me at least half a dozen times . |
| 19 | There were too many strange things happening around me at the time . ’ |
| 20 | In his introduction Norris acknowledges the difficulty of writing about him at all in such a context : |
| 21 | Suppose that my friend was not looking for me at all . |
| 22 | They might not know him by sight , or might not be looking for him at all . |
| 23 | Poor Bill ! all day looking for him at home . |
| 24 | Keep condoms handy , so you do n't have to go tearing around looking for them at that crucial moment . |
| 25 | Not looking for you at all . |
| 26 | She turned , looking about her at the stables . |
| 27 | Tallis said , amazed , looking about her at the dark , snow-striped land . |
| 28 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 29 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 30 | He glanced back at her , then turned away , looking about him at the cluttered floor , the smoke-blackened walls , the broken ceiling of the room he was in . |