Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others might be talking to their girlfriends or just idly smoking and looking at the sky . |
| 2 | When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that . |
| 3 | The photograph was brown and curling at the edges . |
| 4 | As I panted into Stranraer Gardens , following the no-hopers rule for cross-country — never run in a straight line — I was flailing my arms left and right and zigzagging at an angle of about ten degrees to the horizontal . |
| 5 | He passed Caballeros and Bugner as they were holing out at the 15th and driving at the short 16th . |
| 6 | The most significant development during this period was the formation of the Central Gneiss Zone , some 10–20km broad and dipping at an angle of 30–40° to the north and bounded to the south by the Main Central Thrust ( Fig. 3.22 ) . |
| 7 | Boats carrying troops and equipment began leaving Toulon on Sept. 21 and arriving at the Red Sea port of Yanbu in Saudi Arabia on Sept. 29 , while from Sept. 23 the aircraft carrier Clémenceau also began unloading some 500 troops and 42 helicopters in Yanbu , returning afterwards to France . |
| 8 | ‘ I still think the carrot of a final at Wembley is terrific but looking at the gates , especially in Italy , I do n't know if the fans want this competition . ’ |
| 9 | THE Princess of Wales arrived smiling and laughing at a Christmas concert last night . |
| 10 | Robins slightly endeared herself to me by going a little pink and gazing at the ceiling . |
| 11 | Extending the curriculum to include a range of applications which more adequately than at present represents the kinds of human endeavour where mathematics is used would be another such change , with fewer examples involving ballistics and war , for instance , and more involving such activities as working with fabrics , designing appliances for the disabled or looking at the school canteen 's queuing problems . |
| 12 | There was a daily requisition to carry troops to the Rossall rifle ranges , leaving between 8–30 and 9–30 and returning at the end of the afternoon . |
| 13 | Song a hoopoe-like succession of hoots , rising at first and falling at the end , sometimes in the form of a trill . |
| 14 | And one day , with jarring abruptness , I was twenty-seven , and the little inner voice stopped jeering and sneering at every man I met and began to whimper and bleat . |
| 15 | He lay on his bunk with his eyes open and staring at the rafter ceiling for all the hours that were common for the men of Hut 2 . |
| 16 | For a long time she imagined she might open the door and see the body of her mother , stretched out in death on her bed , her arms folded across her chest , her eyes still open and staring at the ceiling . |
| 17 | The brilliant beams of their torches were like searchlights , swinging wildly for a second , until they finally converged at the back of a container with its door ripped open and lying at a crazy angle . |
| 18 | The densely hooded vegetation is soothing and disorientating at the same time . |
| 19 | If he starts being really difficult and kicking at the partitions we sometimes have to put hobbles on him . |
| 20 | We believe that every asylum seeker , whether in-country or arriving at the ports , should have access to good free legal advice . |
| 21 | He collapsed back on the bed , eyes wide and staring at the white ceiling . |