Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 2 | Now the other reason why of course you wo n't perhaps erm drive naturally is because of this little bit of tension at the fact that who 's this person sitting here looking at what I 'm doing ? and it it 's putting me off . |
| 3 | Mrs Foster had told them Matthew was a bad-tempered boy , and she 'd certainly been right about the bad-tempered part , though this was no boy standing here looking at her with such menace . |
| 4 | For a second Donna thought he 'd been standing there looking at her , this man in the leather jacket and trousers which were too short . |
| 5 | He knows what we 're doing , he knows what we 're doing cos he 's standing there looking at us . |
| 6 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 7 | I go into them and make faces at all the animals and ask them what they think of us daft humans standing there staring at them . |
| 8 | I was standing there staring at Vern . |
| 9 | He goes up through the hoops along the narrow , she said the first day when all the others were standing there shaking at the narrow bath he was just over it and down and she said you 've never seen him |
| 10 | From the moment I answered my door and found you standing there glaring at me . ’ |
| 11 | I swear this now [ never mind the chaplain who is sitting there sneering at me ] , I saw more of Christ 's love amongst the Maillotins than anywhere else on this earth . |
| 12 | Marcus and the woman were just sitting there grinning at each other and talking so I went to track Shelly down . |
| 13 | This can actually produce those distressing occasions when , for example , a husband and wife are sitting there looking at each other , the dying one trying very hard to get on and die because they understand everyone is waiting for them to do so , and the survivor trapped with their feelings of guilt about wishing their relative would die , whilst at the same time not being able to leave the person 's side in case they miss the moment . |
| 14 | It will be quite bad enough with Georg sitting there glowering at everyone . |
| 15 | He lifted the Sèvres cup and saucer from the table in front of him , and advanced towards Louise , who was sitting there smiling at him , silver teapot poised . |
| 16 | She could think of only one reason why Barbs should have been jealous of her , and he was sitting there laughing at her . |
| 17 | ‘ I was sitting there staring at four white walls wondering what was happening to me . |
| 18 | They were all sitting there staring at me and Monsieur de Levantiére said , ‘ This is Constance , who has kindly stepped in at the last moment . ’ |
| 19 | She went on sitting there staring at him long after he was back on the floor . |
| 20 | When the phone rang again she was still sitting there staring at it . |
| 21 | He was leaning forward staring at me with his hands on his knees . |