Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three or four knights had come hastening in at the sound of their lord 's voice . |
| 2 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 3 | However , I made my position very clear to the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus sports hack , Mark Crowe , when he came sniffing round at the funeral . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're in luck , ’ said Jonna , as Ned came panting in at the doorway with an armful of heavily-foliaged twigs . |
| 5 | That opinion is absolutely in line with that expressed by the people of Kincardine and Deeside who thoroughly rejected opting out at the ballot box . |
| 6 | Next moment the swirling fog in the alley was suddenly lit to a brilliant white by the head lamps of the car which came roaring in at the far end . |
| 7 | Then a car was heard pulling up at the gate ; either the bridal car or their uncle had come . |
| 8 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 9 | I wanted to buy some blades and socks , but most of all I wanted to avoid arriving back at the flat at the exact time she did , just in case Harvey should be angry at her disobeying him . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not sure how high we went but I remember looking down at the surf . |
| 11 | Graham grinned looking over at the two Art School girls , who were now sitting on the floor on the other side of the room , talking to each other . |
| 12 | Normally he enjoyed staying over at the firm 's northern hospitality suite which was situated above their offices — bloody hell , he had treated a few girls to his own style of hospitality there enough times — but tonight it was all wrong . |
| 13 | Tallis followed glancing back at the huge carvings , their grotesque faces watching her , some compassionately , some with mocking expressions . |
| 14 | ‘ But I ca n't resist looking back at the history of rock and having this addiction to the great pop music that 's been made , whether it 's T-Rex or Blondie . |
| 15 | ‘ In April , hundreds of runners can be found digging around at the back of the wardrobe , trying to find that old pair of track spikes . |
| 16 | But Professor Avenarius was late , and I kept watching the woman ; she was alone at the pool , standing waist-deep in the water , and she kept looking up at the young lifeguard in sweatpants who was teaching her to swim . |
| 17 | I kept looking up at the Royal Box and thinking , ‘ Stevie Foster would have stood there . ’ ’ |
| 18 | the basis is you keep going in at the wrong level it 's the educational process at ground level |
| 19 | You lose their attention if you keep staring down at the papers in your hand . |
| 20 | ‘ Otherwise , if they keep coming in at the same rate , Hong Kong will be totally swamped and will not be able to cope . |
| 21 | Marcus was standing looking down at the woman . |
| 22 | The Prince and McPhee had walked on to the top of the bank and were standing looking down at the river . |
| 23 | I stared at him because he sounded so cold , but he was sitting looking down at the glass which he held on his knees and I could n't see his face . |
| 24 | I 'm sitting looking out at the darkness and the sea . |
| 25 | He cleared his throat once more and resumed staring up at the ceiling . |
| 26 | Another man would have gone away , would have pretended we were not there , would have stood looking up at the wall-plaques and the windows until we had gone safely away . |
| 27 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 28 | Joseph said glancing up at the serious young man . |
| 29 | It is hard to find much at Comdex and the companion Windows World show that is not NT-related this year , and Tivoli Systems Inc winged in from Austin , Texas to announce that it will develop a version of its product for NT , and brought along enough gear to demonstrate the Tivoli Management Environment for Windows NT in an early form : it says the product will make it easy for systems administrators to manage , configure , change , monitor , and enforce security of NT systems across large networks , and enable systems managers to manage Windows NT and Unix systems , as well as Windows and MS-DOS client machines , from a single , integrated systems-manager 's desktop ; it will start trickling out at the end of the year with a developer 's toolkit , and management applications will follow in early 1994 . |
| 30 | It will start trickling out at the end of the year with a developer 's toolkit , and management applications will follow in early 1994 . |