Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could perhaps find a replacement make-up artist , though that would prove difficult at such short notice , but someone coming in at the last moment would find it hard to cope with the unusual styles , and the actors would be having problems enough dealing with first-night nerves without having to face any added strain . |
| 2 | " You did n't mind me looking in at the window , Stephen ? |
| 3 | When Tucker caught himself shrugging apologetically at the parrots he knew he was out of his depth . |
| 4 | The gate swung outwards , and he found himself looking up at the massive head of a yawning dragon with creased cheek and jowl and a lolling red tongue . |
| 5 | Her feather bobbed up and down in indignation as she talked , and Fowler , who had no wish to gaze into her eyes , found himself flinching instead at the sight of Paul Franklin 's bright yellow socks . |
| 6 | He could hear somebody talking urgently at the other end but his mind was still scrambled and he could not decipher the words . |
| 7 | Once , Cardiff could have imagined himself throwing up at the sight of that horror behind the wheel . |
| 8 | The claim was made by the prosecution in its summing up at the trial of Lou Macari and Brian Hillier , who deny conspiring to defraud the Inland Revenue . |
| 9 | You know , I mean we 're here , well are you going down at the end of the week or something ? |
| 10 | What are you working on at the moment ? ’ |
| 11 | They leaned close momentarily then began to come forward again , slowly , looking about them , the first of them pointing up at the ruined monastery . |
| 12 | Even if she could n't get a game , there 'd be something going on at the club , and it would be better than moping around at home . |
| 13 | Er , she says that she 's er , there 's absolutely nothing doing just at the moment , erm , but she says that she never knows the time when she will be called upon to you know , be asked to do a trip , but |
| 14 | James watched me prodding away at the knitting for a while , and I sensed his helplessness . |
| 15 | She found herself looking covertly at the bed , which had so much the air of being from a foreign country . |
| 16 | Ace found herself looking up at the sky . |
| 17 | Mary found herself looking down at the small dapper figure of Sidney Watkins , manager of the Berkeley Chase for the last ten years . |
| 18 | " We provide extra food and drink so that your great-grandfather can bring the spirits of other famous patriots and scholars to join our celebration , " her mother had explained in a whisper , and Lan , remembering this , found herself peering apprehensively at the spare chopsticks to see if any of them showed signs of moving . |
| 19 | They left him looking up at the sky again . |
| 20 | And then erm Cathy taking Dessy for and and her looking up at the Dessy 's head . |
| 21 | When Nell did n't reply , he turned to see if she had heard him ; found her staring fixedly at the sign . |
| 22 | The spoilt , black-haired girl sitting beside him staring out at the river . |
| 23 | They heard him battering furiously at the panels and shouting hoarsely : ‘ What do you want with him ? |
| 24 | Huy watched him retreat and then followed Taheb and Nephthys , finding them talking softly at the gate . |
| 25 | All of it eating away at the spiritual fabric of existence for thousands upon thousands of years . |
| 26 | There was a lorr of it going on at the time , y'know . |
| 27 | It seems funny having it going out at the sides cos I always had it |
| 28 | The leather also still looks good , although I 've notices it wearing away at the top of the ankle seam . |
| 29 | A more erudite musician — or courteous companion — you wo n't meet ; and I shall treasure for aye the memory of his sitting down at the grand piano in the front room of his Edinburgh town-house to demonstrate how two operations to his 95-year-old hands had not impaired his keyboard ability : what he then produced was some of the most sheerly beautiful bach playing I have ever heard . |
| 30 | In his summing up at the end of ‘ Prospect ’ , the Chief of Air Staff , Sir Dermot Boyle , publicly expressed the RAF 's opposition to the Sandys Reformation . |