Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Volkov held her close ; marvelling at her selfless courage even as he reproached her . |
| 2 | ‘ But I think he was quite rational last night , ’ said Breeze , marvelling at her own coolness . |
| 3 | Most of them had visited the invalid often during the past few months , marvelling at his gallant spirit and his unfailing good temper . |
| 4 | He would look at Harry , the picture of health and happiness and , while marvelling at his steady uncomplicated progress , suddenly think of the child 's mother , a travesty of the woman he had once known , suffering , it would seem , from chronic post-natal depression , so much so that , on Winifred Shalcross 's advice , a second specialist had been called in . |
| 5 | I managed to film this without Mr Bolt Head noticing at our last meeting . |
| 6 | Federman has explained this characteristic as ‘ imagination mocking what it pretends to be doing … imagination laughing at its own pretensions ’ ( Federman 1976a : 576 ) . |
| 7 | Something walking across her grave … or the forces in heaven laughing at her vain attempts to re-write her future ? |
| 8 | Like laughing at her po-faced pronouncements on the ‘ artistry ’ of throw-away tunes such as , well , you name ‘ em , she 's got ‘ em . |
| 9 | It was like a smiling , mocking face , laughing at her useless attempts to raise her own passion . |
| 10 | Ellen screamed and was instantly seized by the other man , who , laughing at her wild struggles , began to force her down to the floor . |
| 11 | The morning after that first night they bathed together , laughing at their own bodies and the world . |
| 12 | Then , falling into each other 's arms , they tumbled about laughing at their own precocious English . |
| 13 | ‘ Did I not say , Harry , that I 'd get it from you , and no other ? ’ said Isambard , still laughing at his stricken face . |
| 14 | Her shoulder was stinging , but Maria could n't help laughing at his effervescent antics . |
| 15 | ‘ So I see , ’ she said , laughing at his sheepish small-boy expression . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He doubled up laughing at his own joke . |
| 18 | this joke is not about laughing at your own jokes |
| 19 | Laughing at your own silly mistakes can help to take away any embarrassment and the need to apologise constantly for your gaucheness without any loss of dignity or selfrespect . |
| 20 | he 's suffering , it 's bad about laughing at your own jokes that , you do n't do that . |
| 21 | Then Brett started laughing at my Brummy vest . |
| 22 | That very first event started the train of countless numbers of such events and each of these , occurring at its own relevant time , provided a corresponding addition to what millenniums later , man is able to interpret as countless millions of ‘ units ’ of ‘ goodness ’ . |
| 23 | Morse had insisted on travelling by what he called the ‘ scenic ’ route — via Cirencester but , alas , the countryside was not appearing at its best : the golden days were gone , and the close-cropped fields where the sheep ever nibbled looked dank and uninviting under a sky-cover of grey cloud . |
| 24 | ‘ Sometimes even big girls cry , ’ he mused , his lips quirking at her sudden transition from tears to rage . |
| 25 | With the volume of trading at its highest recorded level , the leading FT-SE 100 index of top British companies jumped 150 points at one stage before settling 136.2 points ahead at 2572.6 — almost exactly the level at which the stock market stood when Chancellor Norman Lamont began his Budget address one month ago . |
| 26 | Alfred Dunhill opened shops in Geneva and Madrid , and Hackett has started trading at its new flagship store in Sloane Street , London . |
| 27 | It 's again to the gentleman bidding at my right now . |
| 28 | Her rolled-up handkerchief was already soaked through but she went on twisting it round and round in her fingers and dabbing at her wet face . |
| 29 | He drew doodles on the pad in front of him , occasionally dabbing at his loose , wet lips with a handkerchief . |
| 30 | Continue walking at your own speed , pulling slightly on the leash in order to tighten the choke chain , accompanying this with the command ‘ heel ’ . |